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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 6h

I grew a dahlia and it is FINALLY flowering

Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... This article says the protest remained 'mostly peaceful', but also that 12 people were arrested. If I was on a night out in a space with 150 people and 12 of them were arrested for assault and affray, I would not think my night out had been peaceful

Extract from BBC article: 'Flares were set off and there were scuffles with police during the stand-off at a marina in the Hampshire town, involving about 150 anti-migrant demonstrators on Sunday.

Eleven men and one woman were arrested on suspicion of offences including assaulting police officers, affray and racially aggravated public order. All remain in custody.

The migrants were taken by coach to a processing centre in Kent.

It is the second known landing of large numbers of migrants this far west along the south coast in recent years.

A police cordon was in place on Haslar Road in Gosport, where the atmosphere at the protest mostly remained peaceful.'

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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You're in her dms. I'm in her garden with my 2ft tromboncino. We are not the same

Woman with shoulder length hair and glasses in her fave autumn jumper holding a large obscenely shaped squash

Obscenely shaped squash drying on a rack in the sunny garden

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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Pervy little duolingo owl says I have an epic chest

A message from duolingo saying 'you got an epic chest!'

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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Would you believe me if I told you this was a bat flying above the borlotti beans

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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

So non-white people now have to show proof that they're 'acceptable' or they'll get violently mobbed?

screenshot from the article which says a councillor collected proof that the people were there to play cricket

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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Went to Anglesey and this red squirrel was mad with me

Little squirrel nutkin kind of guy poking its head around a tree branch and looking pissed off

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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Granny's Garden on my dad's PC when I was a kid. When that witch appeared on screen I would lose my tiny little 9 yr old mind

80s pc style image of a witch saying 'Ha! Now i've got you!'

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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

This is a tromboncino, an Italian summer squash that's a cross between Jon Bon Jovi and Dan Bongino

A leafy green plant growing up a wooden trellis, with a long thin courgette like fruit in the centre with a yellow flower on the end of it

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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Classic homegrown tomatoes to homemade bbq sauce pipeline

Bowl of red, yellow, green, orange, purple tomatoes

Pan of red, yellow, green, orange and purple tomatoes with garlic, chilli and ginger

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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

So what I could easily run a mile in 27 years

Headline reading 'Britain's Kerr breaks 27-year mile world record in London'

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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Here's my salvia viridia near Manchester, UK. I grew this from seed this year, in a newly renovated garden. I'm really proud of it and bees love it!

A salvia plant with green leaves and purple bracts

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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Seems like every time we have a sunny day here now the moors go on fire again

Scene of the sun on hills and hedgerow with smoke billowing over the hill from a fire on the moors

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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

All week I've been looking forward to lying down in this field

A golden field full of grasses and purple thistles (knapweed) with a hawthorn hedge in the background

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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

OBSESSED with my lunchtime tomato haul

A wooden bowl filled with tomatoes of different shapes and colours

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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

LOOK I saw a leafcutter bee on my wild rose! This is my world cup, I would stay up till 5am to watch this but luckily I don't have to

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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Hard to believe this when the guy on the top left is shamelessly giving a nazi salute

A news announcement saying no minions worked for hitler

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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

One good thing about this hot hot hellscape is the tomatoes are starting to ripen

A vine of tomatoes on the plant, with the top ones orange and the lower ones green

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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Doing my little solstice evening two days late because kids innit

Green and yellow beeswax candles lit in the foreground with an arch full of sweet peas in the background

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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Lunch from the garden in the garden

A white plate of salad leaves with goat's cheese crostini, sprinkiled with broad beans, chilli, chives, garlic scapes and calendula petals

A bowl of strawberries with a dusting of sugar and a glass of elderflower cordial with mint leaves in it, both on a garden table in the sun

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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I saw Skunk Anansie last night and it was the BEST GIG I HAVE EVER BEEN TO

Two women with curly strawberry blonde hair and glasses smiling in front of an outdoor stage

Skin from Skunk Anansie standing on a piece of music equipment with a microphone. It is all smoky around her

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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Vegetable growing is wild, these two pictures were taken just ONE MONTH apart

Small garden veg plot with two raised beds and a compost bin. The raised beds have a few little plants in

The same picture but now the raised beds are full to overflowing with delicious green

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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

My friend just dropped a great new insult, feel free to use on your enemies

Screenshot of a whatsapp message saying 'you can put lemongrass in your water butt'

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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Fun summer prank idea: piss in a bottle and tell everyone you've made elderflower cordial

5 bottles of actual elderflower cordial I really did actually make that sadly does look like piss

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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Made a lovely little side salad from the garden

Small bowl filled with different salad leaves: red and green lettuce, red mustard, nasturtium, hawthorn, parsley plus purple and yellow viola flowers

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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I made a zine for my local launderette! Did anyone ask for this? No. Do I think any launderette customers will read it? Also no. Will they draw offensive graffiti on it? Almost certainly. But I LOVE IT and making it made me laugh so objective achieved

Zine front cover. It is called Spin Cycle and has a lino printed washing machine

A deeply silly launderette lonely hearts page

Laundry in the charts page featuring Spinning Around by Kylie Minogue

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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

First chilli flower of the season and bonus points - it's purple!

Jungly looking bright green foliage in background, a small delicate purple chilli flower in the foreground

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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Yes my back hurts, thanks for asking

Woman in green jumper and old England cricket baseball cap working on a laptop in the garden with a tabby cat curled up asleep in her arms.

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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I started lino printing last month, just for the sake of being creative. These are the two most recent prints I've done and I'm proud of them both! Trees because I like them and a washing machine because I go to the launderette a lot and I find it inspiring in a way I can't explain

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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

I made this! My journey into lino printing continues with this birch forest

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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Took this blurry photo of Cwfen last night, my FAVE BAND OF ALL TIME since I first heard them 6 months ago Also got this rad t shirt If you like doomgazey gothy witchy metal you absolutely need to check these guys out

Blurry photo of Cwfen, a four piece band from Glasgow. The lead singer is in the middle, a woman with long black hair and goth style make up. Also in the photo are two guitarists. The drummer wasn't in shot sadly

Black band t shirt that says Cwfen on in goth style writing. The image on the t shirt is a white forest with a woman figure walking in the distance into a bright shining light, maybe the moon

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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Walked from the setting of the moon to the rising of the sun

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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

I just tried lino cut printing for the first time! Lots to learn obvs but chuffed with this effort

A rough and ready snowflake printed in dark brown ink on brown paper

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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

I wrote my first ever flash fiction! Entered the @welkinprize.bsky.social just under the wire and got this awesome badge to show for it

A sky blue circular badge with stars on in shades of blue and grey, saying The Welkin Writing Prize, Supernova of Scribbling

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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

This afternoon I chopped all this honeysuckle wood for kindling using a blunt saw of unknown provenance and it made me very happy

A square fire basket filled with lengths of twisted honeysuckle wood

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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Merry Christmas! Just finished icing our cake in the traditional '80s grandma' style

Christmas cake covered with white Roy icing in 'stiff peaks', topped with small 80s style santa, reindeer and snowman

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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Up on the moors this morning for a Christmas eve sunrise

Purply pink clouds over moorland hills, with a wire fence in the foreground

Sweeping moorland view with a candyfloss sky

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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

'Made' a yule log to burn tonight in celebration of the solstice this weekend

A small cylinder of untreated wood, wrapped with jute twine with small branches of pine, Holly and hawthorn woven in

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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

My soup DID turn out really good! I made it with the first squash I've ever grown, plus kale and chard from the garden (still growing in December!) and chilli grown in the summer and it felt very lovely to be eating so much homegrown produce in the deep winter. Photo of my squash, my pride and joy

Winter squash 'little dumpling' cut in half and full of seeds for next year

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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Two variations on a knee hook Two variations on back-of-the-knee bruises

I am doing a pole dance move called arrow

I am doing a pole dance move called marley

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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Winter is hard but it does have skies like this

light blue and grey and pink and purple winter morning sky

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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

My little guinea pig Cinnamon Buns is very old and very ill :( he's always been a real oi oi lads lads lads sort of guinea pig so it's v sad to see him so poorly

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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

'We'd better keep letting the men have all the jobs and all the qualifications otherwise they might do a facism. This is progressive'

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Helen Brooks @hellsbells.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

I like what I like and what I like is epic doom metal There's nothing like spotify wrapped for showcasing an autistic special interest

My spotify wrapped heavily featuring Scottish doom metal band Cwfen

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