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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

It’s exceptionally cold here in south/west France. -4 on Thursday night. We’re mulching more plants and wrapping the terracotta pots in bubble wrap. It’s not easy to keep warm.

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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

In South-West France we are in the midst of a rainy season. It’s gloomy and rains day after day, week after week. Some would be so grateful for this, wouldn’t they?

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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

We watched ‘The Leopard’ on Netflix. Then my son bought me the book for my birthday. It’s so beautifully written and translated. It’s immersive.

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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

We’ve been watching ‘The Good Doctor’ on Netflix. We’re now mid- series 6. We’re addicts! There’s just a tad too much American sentimentality. It needs a Kurt Vonnegut injection. (So topical) but that doesn’t stop us watching it. So, recommendations for further addictions please!

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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

I’m reading ‘After You’d Gone’ by Maggie O’Farrell, in fact I’ve almost finished reading it. I’d recommend it especially for the parent- son/ daughter depictions.

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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

This is the inherited rose with no name and pruning issues.

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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Pelargoniums on the old cottage steps

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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Roses, peonies and philadelphus in our garden today

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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Marmalade inspecting the hanging basket.

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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

These are some of the flowers in bloom in our garden right now. A few more tomorrow.

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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

To my followers: we live in south-west France in a farming village, having moved here ten years ago from London. We have two rescue cats, three retired hens and various wild creatures in our garden. We are pescatarians and eat organic. I am an octogenarian but continue to work; I can’t imagine not.

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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

The swallows are back and the smaller variety of bats. The larger variety will arrive later. My husband thought the barn roof was leaking only to realise that a bat was relieving itself. Welcome back!

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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Rescue cats, Eddie and Marmalade

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Marga @margasib.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I photographed this butterfly in Uruguay, while on vacation back home. There are similar species/subspecies from Mexico all the way south to Chile. “Mariposa ochenta” (eighty butterfly) is the common name in Uruguay. Don’t know if it has an English name.

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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Our spring garden. Now we have also narcissi and daffodils. The cranes are here for the spring and the sun is shining.

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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Marmalade, our new Company Manager

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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

We had a small indie publishing company way back before the days of social media. We published dual language books for children based on folktales from their own oral traditions. Very successful until a bank crash and withdrawal of loans.

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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Two days ago, the cranes flew overhead, returning to our area of south-west France for the spring and summer. This is always a joyous time.

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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

We have our first crocuses, anemones and snowdrops in bloom, bringing joy and hope.

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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I’ve just seen a blue sky message and video of cranes escorting a young alligator back to her watering hole. She was crossing a busy road. Now I’ve lost it! Can you help please?

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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Having exhausted the children’s section, I was allowed access to the adult library. I could discover authors for myself - the treasure trove feeling described by Nicholas Tucker. I took my small children into a bookshop and let them choose.

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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

I’ve left X and blocked Elon Musk.

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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Most of our refugee students, from Ukraine, Syria, Afghanistan and Hong Kong, have had a fun experience this Christmas at their first pantomime, courtesy of a kind donation from the Garrick Theatre in Lichfield. Thank you, Garrick for this and all your support.

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