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Gudgie

@gudgie.bsky.social
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Head of History and Politics, UK school. There's also gardening, rugby, interesting things, and the outside. 'The warm and gentle voice of reason' really matters.

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Gudgie @gudgie.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I think it's perfectly reasonable to take over the dining room table for seedlings...don't you? 🌱
Dining table full of pits of soil and some emerging seedlings
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Gudgie @gudgie.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Scaffolding now required! 😮 🌱
Amaryllis apple blossom flower.Garden sticks tied to an amaryllis stem with garden string.
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Gudgie @gudgie.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Kerpow! Subtle it is not, but lovely in deepest darkest January. Never had a five flower one before! 🌱
Overhead shot of all four apple blossom amaryllis flower heads with four open and a fifth buddingOne of the pink and white apple blossom amaryllis blooms
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Gudgie @gudgie.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
The hellebores are coming! Yaaay! 🌱😀
Dark purple hellebore bud, small green leaves and with brown leaf litter on the groundWhite hellebore flower with speckled purple centre and green leaves and other buds
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Gudgie @gudgie.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Was gifted this canna by a colleague, and it's overwintering on a cool indoor windowsill. Now it's beginning to flower! Are there any canna experts out there? Should i just leave it? I've never overwintered tender plants like this before. 🌱🙏🙂
Pale green canna leaves with a dark red flower bud
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Gudgie @gudgie.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Thing 1...and thing 2. Same aspect, bought at same time. 🤷‍♀️🌱
Amaryllis flower spike in wi dowsill, approx 30cm tall. Amaryllis bulb with teeny-tiny flower shoot on windowsill.
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Gudgie @gudgie.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
And so it begins...the 'how do I keep the poinsettia alive past january' challenge. 🌱
Close up of poinsettia red and green bracts
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James @jamestodman.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Morning all. Good to be on Bluesky. Seems a bit calmer than that other place. If you don’t know me then here’s what I mostly do #topiary
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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
#OnThisDay 1215 Rochester Castle surrendered to King John after a seven-week siege. "Living memory does not recall", said a contemporary writer, "a siege so fiercely pressed or so staunchly resisted."
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Gudgie @gudgie.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
And now we wait... 🌱
Large amaryllis bulb (minerva) in a pot on a light windowsill
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Word of the day, though I’m sure no one will need it, is ‘eye servant’ (16th century): an individual who only pays attention or works hard when the boss is looking.
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James Wong @botanygeek.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
*Peeks in* This is better than the bad place, right?
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Gudgie @gudgie.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Took this a few days ago, last of the dahlias here in Wiltshire as sub zero temperatures in the last two days has done for all the remaining flowers in the garden. Anyone else in the UK still have any? Can't complain s'pose as it is the end of November!
Pale pink semi cactus dahlia flower with grey sky behind and green leaves around
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Gudgie @gudgie.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
'Seasons of mist and mellow fruitfulness.' 🌱
Crispy beech leaves on the floor of a forest with a border collie, Dylan,  trotting on.
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Gudgie @gudgie.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Less and less to see in the garden but in the forest the leaves and logs are lovely. 🌱
Moss covered old fallen tree  with many birch leaves scattered about
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Gudgie @gudgie.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
When's it's not soggy and brown, autumn light is really great! 🌱
Moss covered rocks with brown crisp autumn leaves and low autumn light.
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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords seems increasingly appealing as a basis for a system of government.
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Gudgie @gudgie.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
And another random nasturtium....in November of course, haven't planted any here for two years...this may be the beginning of a nasturtium uprising! 🌱
Single yellow nasturtium flower with green leaves around
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Gudgie @gudgie.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Just cut down lots of brown soggy stuff in the garden, but the good news is the Mahonia is just getting ready to bloom 🌱
Magonia flower crown with yellow buds against a red brick wall
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Gudgie @gudgie.bsky.social · 01/11/2024
Random nasturtium! Didn't plant this here. Haven't planted nasturtium here since last year but here it is anyway, at the start of November 🙂🌱
Red nasturtium flower with leaves behind with some dew drops
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Alastair Campbell @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social · 01/11/2024
If you want to listen to an American politician who restores your faith in politics do listen to the latest Rest Is Politics Leading with Senator George Mitchell. A remarkable man and a remarkable life, not least for his role in bringing peace to N Ireland alastaircampbell.org/2024/11/105-...
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105. War and Peace in Northern Ireland and the Middle East (George Mitchell)
What is it like to negotiate with terrorists? Will peace ever be possible in the Middle East? How did the Good Friday Agreement come to pass? On today’s episode of Leading, Rory and Alastair are joine...
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Gudgie @gudgie.bsky.social · 27/10/2024
The garden might be getting a bit brown and soggy now autumn is here, but the dog walking route is making up for it. 🌱
Autumn leaves in a narrow winding path completely encircled by trees. Bit of a shire, from Lord of the Rings, vibe.
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Gudgie @gudgie.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
The single nigella flower has a friend... 🌱
Yellow Welsh poppy flower with small green serated leaves and single nigella flower in the background.
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Gudgie @gudgie.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
Could be a fatsia japonica flower head... could be an alien egg sac...who knows? 🌱
Fatsia japonica flower head with large leaves behind
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Gudgie @gudgie.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
Well, hello there! I sprinkled nigella seed on a bare patch in spring, but the ground got totally covered with nepeta as it grew. I cut back the nepeta a few weeks ago, and this little fellow has popped out.
Single nigella flower with green leaves in the background.
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Gudgie @gudgie.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
A few of my cactus pink dahlias are still going despite some cold nights. A few bees are still visiting and quite happy about that. 🌱
Bright pink Dahlia with a sluggish bee in the centre
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Shannon Walsh @flutterbyflora.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
🌱Good morning #CheeringUpMondays 🌞💕
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Josh Pollock 🌱🌵🌲 @josh412.com · 21/10/2024
Good morning 🌱💮🌸
The back of a white and pink Dahlia flower
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Gudgie @gudgie.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
It's definitely autumn in Wiltshire. 🌱
A winding path through curving autumnal trees
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Gudgie @gudgie.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
Rosa Graham Thomas...amazingly still chucking out the odd bloom!
Yellow rose Graham Thomas with green leaves behind
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Gudgie @gudgie.bsky.social · 05/10/2024
Asters, asters, asters...as far as the eye can see. Well, actually, only two plants, but in October in England, that's a lot. 🌱
Lots of shocking pink aster flowers in close up.
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Gudgie @gudgie.bsky.social · 29/09/2024
See? I told you wonky-dahlia-day was a thing. 🌱🙂
Bright pink dahlia flower head with some curling and wonky petals
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Gudgie @gudgie.bsky.social · 28/09/2024
A brief interlude between biblical rain here in Wiltshire. The asters are beginning to flower just as the first frosts are arriving 🙄. 🌱
Bright pink aster unfurling with some other buds behind.
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 22/09/2024
To celebrate the first day of autumn, here’s a poem called ‘The Problem of Writing Poems in the Shape of Deciduous Trees’
[The poem has been written in the shape of a deciduous tree with letters (or ‘leaves’) missing from the text]:
 
  comm   n pr   ble    whe    writin    p   ems
in the shape of decid   o   s trees
is t  at once t   ere ar   ives
the fir   t sti   rings of    he new aut   mn breeze,  
  he       oems will begi    to shake    hemselves ge   tly  
  ntil their letters loos   n like leaves,
an they d start to float down
then
 
[The missing letters from the tree have landed on the last line to form the phrase]

turntomushuponthegroun

[The final ‘d’ is floating down to complete the phrase.]
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Gudgie @gudgie.bsky.social · 21/09/2024
Anemones. My pink ones flower in August, and this little one peeks out in September.
Partially open white anemone flower head against a wooden fence
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Gudgie @gudgie.bsky.social · 17/09/2024
Happy wonky dahlia day...its definitely a thing. 🌱
Bright pink dahlia flower with a petal missing
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Gudgie @gudgie.bsky.social · 15/09/2024
The last of the crocosmia here. Hasn't been a great year for them, but then actually, I don't think they like my heavy clay soil as I don't get a great show most years.🌱
Close up of yellow crocosmia flower head
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Gudgie @gudgie.bsky.social · 14/09/2024
Hello lovely gardening peeps. Just to prove the seasons have totally gone to pot here in Wiltshire, here is a Welsh poppy blooming today in my garden. They usually bloom in late spring. 🌱🤷‍♀️
Yellow Welsh poppy surrounded by orange and red marigolds
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Gudgie @gudgie.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
Hello lovely gardening peeps. The early chill that has set in in Wiltshire has done for my late summer flowers. This is the only aster to actually make it to flowering. 😕🌱
Small purple Aster flower with a few behind it
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Gudgie @gudgie.bsky.social · 08/09/2024
"The rain it raineth everyday" 🌱
Rain-soaked leaves of photinia (red r)obin
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Gudgie @gudgie.bsky.social · 07/09/2024
Hello lovely gardening peeps. The '...season of mists and mellow fruitfulness' is here. I like it. 🌱
Three pink seedum flower heads with a small spiderweb suspended between and a tiny spider, covered in morning dew
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Gudgie @gudgie.bsky.social · 04/09/2024
Hello lovely gardening peeps. A shy and retiring dahlia in my garden. Orange thingamjiggy. I've lost the label, so I can't remember 😬 🌱
Bright orange dahlia flower.
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Gudgie @gudgie.bsky.social · 01/09/2024
Hello lovely gardening peeps. Marigolds, be they ever so humble. Always overlooked them before but grew a whole bunch from seed this year, and they are still looking cheerful. 🌱
A cluster of bright orange and red marigolds
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Gudgie @gudgie.bsky.social · 29/08/2024
Hello lovely gardening peeps. Here's a dinky dahlia 🌱
Dwarf dahlia flower. Yellow with tiny brown strands across the petals.
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Gudgie @gudgie.bsky.social · 26/08/2024
Hello lovely gardening peeps. Cosmos, always cheerful. 🌱
Three white cosmos flowers in dappled sun.
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Alex Ford @apf102.bsky.social · 25/08/2024
A return to normalcy? What do the 2024 GCSE History exam results reveal? Some analysis of the latest GCSE History exams and what lessons we can take. Now with some tentative unit level analysis. Strap in for some data fun! #edusky #historyteacher #ukedusky www.andallthat.co.uk/blog/a-retur...
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a cat wearing a pair of glasses with the words talk data to me above it
ALT: a cat wearing a pair of glasses with the words talk data to me above it
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Gudgie @gudgie.bsky.social · 24/08/2024
Hello lovely gardening peeps. It's raining cats 🐈 and dogs 🐕 here. Here's a red floribunda ground cover rose that is bearing up remarkably well despite it all. 🌧🌱
Red floribunda rose flower with rain drops. Can't for the life of me remember the variety.
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Gudgie @gudgie.bsky.social · 23/08/2024
Hello lovely gardening peeps. The wind has died down a bit here in Wiltshire and there's actually some sun! 🌞 Here's a little potentilla thurberi that's still valiantly cracking on. 🌱
Potentilla thurberi red velvet flower in close up
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Gudgie @gudgie.bsky.social · 22/08/2024
Hello lovely gardening peeps. Geranium? Pelargonium? You say potato, I say potato. Either way, on this madly windy weather day, it still looks nice. 🙂🌱
Hot pink geranium flower head.
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