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EricaRhubarb @ericarhubarb.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Ah! I agree but stupidly grow one facing south. It escapes into a trumpet vine.

EricaRhubarb @ericarhubarb.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I just want to say that in my tiny part of the world the day is glorious. Birds and insects flourishing. Blossom everywhere.Mr Frog sunbathing.I hold onto this and hope.And for all those people being pounded by hate and bombs and the crazed words of a madman,we despair with you.May this evil vanish.

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EricaRhubarb @ericarhubarb.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Full faced hellebores, freckles and all. For @dannyve.bsky.social as my reply refused to add these images.

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EricaRhubarb @ericarhubarb.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Morose day lout there. Picked these as they were getting battered by weather. A promise of sorts.

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EricaRhubarb @ericarhubarb.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Hoar frost this morning and it hasn’t risen above zero all day. Everything quiet and still. Feathery tracery on branches and twigs.

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EricaRhubarb @ericarhubarb.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Two anniversary cakes. Actually simnel cakes because this is my favourite cake. Decorated with honeysuckle , hawthorn berries , pittosporum, some bits of rosemary. 20 people for tea today and I’m not in charge which is wonderful. 1965 to 2025. No diamonds but lots of memories in a long marriage.

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EricaRhubarb @ericarhubarb.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Have had to cover pots with winter protection, but against the sun.37 in the shade, 40 plus in the garden. House completely shuttered. Fan on . Cold drinks. Salad for supper.

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EricaRhubarb @ericarhubarb.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Good morning,or rather good evening . It’s been very hot here. I have shrouded some of the pots in pink winter protection! To stop the leaves burning etc.

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EricaRhubarb @ericarhubarb.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

First mug of coffee drunk and now it’s on with the day. It’s going to be a hot week. My crowd-farming box of fruit includes a small and very welcome watermelon

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EricaRhubarb @ericarhubarb.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Book group in the morning where we all talk about the books we are presenting, it’s a browsing group, bit like a friend’s private library. It’s always good when books you like are liked by others.And even better when you come home with something new to read.Fire of Joy is my daily starter of a poem.

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EricaRhubarb @ericarhubarb.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Goodbye to Mister Bisto. Diagnosed with bone cancer 10 days ago and it was aggressive. He went with dignity and with peace and with his tail still wagging. Not in terrible pain and unable to move or eat. We will miss him more than words can say.

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EricaRhubarb @ericarhubarb.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

A corne when the Spanish gorse was in full bloom and the new Paul’s Scarlet Hawthorn burst forth . Bad photo because shadow of photographer who is not that clued up.

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EricaRhubarb @ericarhubarb.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Ditto with my white iris! Given to me and given on to everyone.

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EricaRhubarb @ericarhubarb.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Sorry to hear that but yes, dwelling on it doesn’t help much. I’m being incredibly lazy today as a way of having a break.Tomorrow hope to do a bit of gardening, always good for the spirit.Here’s an amateur photo of a bit of the courtyard when it looked lovely. Time passes and so do the plants.

Court yard garden. Window and bench and Spanish gorse and daisies and pots

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EricaRhubarb @ericarhubarb.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

You have a framed bus sign, just right for you! I have 2, gifts. Just right for me.

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EricaRhubarb @ericarhubarb.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Pouring here all day. Grandson cut grass yesterday which is a a good thing, today I finished the simnel cake. Mexican daisies, banksia rose. Everything else too big or too bedraggled.

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EricaRhubarb @ericarhubarb.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Simnel cake 2025. Mexican daisies and banksia rose and a touch of cow parsley.

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EricaRhubarb @ericarhubarb.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Cataract op yesterday.All very easy except for the infusion as my veins shrink when they see see a needle. I now have a short distance lens and a long distance lens and life is quite bright! Sunglasses given out to all patients on arrival . I look like Bruce Lee in mine. Check up in a month.

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EricaRhubarb @ericarhubarb.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

It’s very warm here in SW France,about 24 in the sheltered courtyard. I have been tidying the wayward patch and shoving in bulbs that were in pots.The grass needs cutting and I dare say some plants need watering. But the knees have protested so it is cup of tea time.

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EricaRhubarb @ericarhubarb.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Glorious day here,SE wind but warm somehow.Menus: Chicken,sausage,red pepper traybake,salmon,leek,potatoes,crème fraîche & capers traybake.Veal goulash to be made in the week.I need everything 2be easy,my love for tray bakes has no end. Fritillaries for the 1st time.That’s a frog mozzie coil burner.

Fritillaries five in a trough and a pottery frog mozzie coil burner. Chinese.

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EricaRhubarb @ericarhubarb.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Here are some hellebores that have been glorious this year. Even if every bit of them is poisonous they are still wonderful.

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EricaRhubarb @ericarhubarb.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Had a crazy few days with J’s health but super service from SAMU et al. My hellebores give me much joy too.

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EricaRhubarb @ericarhubarb.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

About to read Wild Twin by Jeff Young. A walk across Europe and I have a mini obsession with those. I follow the route and imagine it all. As he writes, ‘I began to dream of places I had been to and could no longer go.’

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EricaRhubarb @ericarhubarb.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I did have a wardrobe of turbans. Rather liked them. Friend made me a turban stand so I have 3 favourites on that as a reminder. On other news, oncology checkup today and all well. He was pleased. 1 more year with no event as he puts it and we can all relax a bit.

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EricaRhubarb @ericarhubarb.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Made two Christmas cakes and am hoping they will be ok as they cooked far quicker than the recipe time. It’s one I’ve used forever but perhaps I’m getting forgetful? Filthy page shows what a messy cook I am . Margaret Costa Seasonal Food, from the late 60s.

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EricaRhubarb @ericarhubarb.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Mice have eaten my gloves, new too.

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EricaRhubarb @ericarhubarb.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

3 good things today. Walk in the woods & plans for how to continue the work next week. Big shop,buying things for the shoebox appeal.A local endeavour where you pack up a shoebox of pressies for people who don’t get Xmas presents. Irish gin for me,who could resists the botanicals.Fleursde pisenlit

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EricaRhubarb @ericarhubarb.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

Jerusalem artichokes picked from the field where they are a blight on cereal crops.Cousin of sunflowers and Jerusalem is a misheard girasole.Every scrap of root will make another plant and that’s how they spread and ruin the soil for the farmers.

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EricaRhubarb @ericarhubarb.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,583,518!

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #1,583,518, EricaRhubarb ‪@ericarhubarb.bsky.social‬, joined on Oct 18, 2023"

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EricaRhubarb @ericarhubarb.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

On this book there is a section on historical fiction in discussion of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Isabella of Angoulême. I am the author of the latter. It’s interesting that historical fiction is no longer a dirty word for academic historians. Hilary Mantel said it was like porn for them.

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EricaRhubarb @ericarhubarb.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

Just finishing the series by Andre Taylor that begins with The Ashes of London and then onto this , which I am looking forward to. The Andrew Taylor series has been full on immersive,6 books on the trot. Know much more about Charles 11 and London then than I ever did. Powerful historical fiction.

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