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Jennie Mechti

@follyatt24.bsky.social
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Interested in folktales, children’s literature, Greek history and archaeology, theatre; bibliophile; lover of plants and animals.

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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
It’s colder here now than in Leeds UK where my daughter lives. The plants have been mulched and pots wrapped in bubble wrap, some in fleece bags. The birds are bottomless pits!
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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 · 02/11/2025
Precisely.We cut our roses back and mulch them. We bring the flowers indoors for vases. Then they grow and bloom again. We have lots of salvias in bloom and Japanese anemones. Then masses of cyclamen in the grass. The meadow is full of red clover, colt’s foot and still a few scabious blooms.
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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Yes! Our garden is relentless. The trouble is that it keeps on growing! Everything in it just grows and grows!!
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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Yes, you’re right, of course. If mine are at all fit to wear still either I give them to my daughter in law to cut up and use for her daughter’s or for dolls’ clothes, or I give them to a charity shop. I’m careful how I choose fabrics and how often I wash things. Goody Two Shoes really.
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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
For very good reasons, my cat merely tolerates my piano playing.
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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Horrific. Many of our refugee students have relatives living in this area. This inevitably results in constant anxiety.
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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 · 20/10/2025
Well, we can hope.
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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Our roses are still in bloom here but the cold weather is on its way now. I don’t relish the thought of November and then Christmas in rural France is a damp squib. The well-heeled escape.
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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
We usually have one of two pairs here in the summer and see them around the lanes.
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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
I adore cheesecake but there has to be some tangy fruit on top by way of contrast, such as berries. We could always make or buy cheesecake in the uk but here in SW France neither is at all easy. Very sad.
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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Let’s help them survive. Politicians seem to have forgotten to focus on the planet. Don’t they have offspring or grandchildren? Are they blind?
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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Let’s pray it doesn’t become extinct. It doesn’t look devilish to me.
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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
You’re an amazing photographer.
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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Quite astonishing. We often have the common green one here on the trellis outside the back door.
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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Yes, adorable
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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Where?
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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
You travel a lot!
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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
How many cats and dogs do you have?
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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
I went years ago to give a paper at a conference. I recall a beautiful lake and friendly people. Very expensive drinks. It seemed to be a clean, safe country.
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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
I quit completely 20 years ago when my first grandchild was born. I was with my daughter at the birth - a huge privilege and unmatchable experience.
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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
What an experience!
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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
We have a lot of these round our plants especially the buddleia which is buzzing with these creatures, many kinds of bees and butterflies.
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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 · 13/07/2025
What’s a puggle? Photo please.
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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Already a bit damp. Get the hot brush.
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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
That beak must be really heavy.
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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Lovely! Thank you
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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Oh! I’ve only been to Eskilstuna.
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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Where are you?
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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Never a truer word. The human race is self- destructing.
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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Thank you
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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Heart-warming. How can people capture them and put them in cages?
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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
We don’t hear enough of the wisdom of native Americans.
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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Flowers give us solace. We care for them and their insect friends.
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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
What and where?
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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
A blue rose? Really?
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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 · 27/06/2025
Yes. Such wisdom
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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
I don’t subscribe to X any longer.
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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Apologies
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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Yes, Neil. Please write some more for adults and children. From a friend of Neil Philip.
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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Amazing, incredible, stunning, stupendibulous!! Thank you
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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Snazzy hairdo
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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Dilbert?
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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Round little ball.
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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Thank you so much, Jenna. The medics don’t tell us any of this at least not here in rural France. It makes sense to me. I take very low doses of bisoprolol and candesartan. Yesterday at 36 degrees whist cooking I started to feel faint. Thank you again.
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Jennie Mechti @follyatt24.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Thank you. Which blood pressure tablets please? I can’t click on the link.
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