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Tim Evans

@hackneymartian.bsky.social

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Leftish, greenish, bookish. 50 years urban 🚲, 4 years 🦽. Londoner, Hackney, Lea Valley. Bad naturalist (urban). Warré beek. Was community tree carer, forest gardener, bikeability teacher, TU H&S librarian. Climate Doomer 2006-. Read poetry voluntarily

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Tim Evans @hackneymartian.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

The castle looms over the peasant humans like an alien mother ship gathering their forced tribute. When the aliens (aristocrats) emerge, as in April, they are giants in weird, elaborate suits. Which is either Julian May's Many Coloured Land or an accurate critique of feudal Europe.

Huge gorgeously dressed figures dwarf the forest and castle.

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Tim Evans @hackneymartian.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

This beach wheelchair was easier to push. The small wheels are at the back. Great fun.

Me waving walking stick while sitting in a wheelchair with balloon tyres, on a beach where the tide has just gone out

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Tim Evans @hackneymartian.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Oak galls on Hackney Marsh. Right, a knopper (wasp) gall. Left, I've not noticed this one before, they're made by the gorgeously named Silk-button Spangle Gall Wasp (thanks, Seek app). Both wasps produce an autumn generation of parthenogenetic females & then in Spring a sexual generation. Amazing

Closeup of green leaf dotted with tiny orange rings

Among dark green oak leaves, a monstrously lumpy & crested shape

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Tim Evans @hackneymartian.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Neil's first go at waxing leaders on #Warré bars. Comb wax from past seasons (foundation free so no pesticides). Bain Marie. A water-soaked guide piece held against the bar. And that vital tool, a cunningly bent teaspoon. And ... voilá! #beekeeping

Close shot of hands above a pan of liquid beeswax on a scruffy workbench. In the left hand, a narrow wooden piece 30cm long. Right hand holds a teaspoon with handle bent at right angle, dribbling wax onto wood.

Hands have separated wood into 2 bars. One has an uneven strip of wax projecting from its surface

Longer shot of smiling man holding the 2 bars . He's dressed in workshop clothes & looks very pleasant.

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Tim Evans @hackneymartian.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Holborn post office. Rang twice. Sat in my wheelchair for 15 minutes. WTAF. Luckily my wife was with me & able to go to counter.

Bell on wall with wheelchair symbols saying 'press for help' and 'ring for attention'

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Tim Evans @hackneymartian.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

The apples went down well, so here are some Charles Ross from the garden. You can feed a household on one. Early cropper, doesn't keep but delicious for quick eating/cooking/juicing. 19th-c Cox/Peasgood cross by a Berkshire gent's gardener, & I raise my glass to Mr Ross.

3 large plump apples, the skin a greenish-yellow base flushed with orange & streaked with broken red lines

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Tim Evans @hackneymartian.bsky.social · 01/09/2024

Who wants to see some apples? Proudly harvested on our allotment today. Varieties are (I think): pic 1, back, Red Windsor, front left Sunset, right Red Falstaff; pic2, left Kidd's Orange Red, right Karmijn de Sonnaville.

Apples on a wooden surface, in 3 groups of different sizes and colourings. Small red at the back, medium sized streaked red, yellow and green at front left, and front right large yellow/green.

Apples on a wooden surface. The 4 on the left are medium sized and streaked red/green; the 2 on the right are larger and streaked green/yellow

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Tim Evans @hackneymartian.bsky.social · 20/08/2024

Hackney calling - our little garden and of course the marshes

View of a small long garden, lots of varying foliage, scruffy feet lounging in the foreground

Path through a summer meadow, at the end a figure stands before a screen of trees

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Tim Evans @hackneymartian.bsky.social · 15/08/2024

In Alnwick for family so I rolled round to Barter Books, completely #wheelchair-able & always comes up with treasure, this time the 1941 edn of comic classic No Bed For Bacon. I lent & lost my nice Hogarth reprint to a friend who died last month so maybe her apologetic spirit put it there.

Title page of 'No Bed for Bacon' by Caryl Brahms and S J Simon, published by Michael Joseph in 1941

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