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Jo Stafford

@legless2007.bsky.social
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Butterflies, bats, birds, F1, F2, F3. It's all about the wings. The Archers, Allotment grower, street art fan, Peregrina. Widowed, sadness likely. She/her.

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Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Rainy allotment days are a lot less wet than they used to be with my lovely new polytunnel. I did do plenty of outdoor work in the rain, obviously, then a sit down and a cup of tea in here. Scored some fresh eggs in exchange for some vegetables. Happy days. #allotment #growyourown
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Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I’m so angry, I’m genuinely livid at Ruth and David. #TheArchers
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Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Yes Ruth you were in the wrong, really in the wrong #TheArchers
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Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
If you take the photo from the right angle it doesn’t look too much like a drought #allotment #growyourown
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Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
@mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social I completely love Outsiding, thank you for making it!
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Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I’ve constructed a polytunnel with an almost volunteer assistant. It has drawn compliments from the allotment elders “a very professional job”, possibly the only nice thing they’ve said to me! Just the doors to go on and tidying up the excess polythene #growyourown #allotment
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Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
As a ginger I’ve been trapped indoors for the week, my allotment to do list this weekend is far too long but I’m very much looking forward to it and I’ve always worked best with a looming deadline (babies outgrowing pots in this case) #growyourown #allotment
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Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
I’m having doubts today about my imminent pilgrimage then a fellow pilgrim I met in 2023 has just got in touch for a chat randomly, and now I’ve remembered why I do this. As they say the #Camino provides.
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Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Well, since the experts on Radio 4 Today programme suggest we’re generally fucked due to this war, I’d better get up and plant some more food.
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Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Feels like spring, I know it’s not, it’s just false spring, but if anyone wants me I’m lying on the grass at the allotment watching bees. #allotment
Orange tulip backlit by the sun with a pale green tulip in the background and a lot of weedsThe first purple spears of asparagus breaking through the soil in the sunshine.White damson blossom against a blue sky
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Iran had a diffuse series of power structures at the best of times. This is not the best of times. You can have a president call for peace and an IRGC seeking to blow up Dubai airport all at once.
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Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
We are currently only hours from F3,F2 and F1. I am desperately excited but also it’s a school night and I am much older than I was in the 90’s when at university I’d pull an all nighter to watch Australian GP action #f1 #f2 #f3
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Matt Bishop 🏳️‍🌈 🏁 @thebishf1.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
#OnThisDay in ’77 Niki Lauda won the #SouthAfricanGP - his first #F1 GP win since his death-defying accident at Nürburgring & subsequent miracle recovery the year before. The car he drove to victory - the Ferrari 312T2 - is a proper beauty, isn’t it? (1/2)
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Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
It’s raining again. We might not get up at all today.
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Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Oh lord Brian’s angina. #TheArchers
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Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
2 feet of cables, it’s been a pretty intense January for knitting. I’ve never done cables before, l don’t think it’s bad for ambition exceeding talent. I have a few months of plainer knitting before I get back to the matching panel. #knitting
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Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Got spuds. I place the order in December with a glass of wine, choosing from a list of over 95 varieties, it’s always a relief to discover I’ve ordered a manageable amount when I go and collect. This is not the case every year. #allotment
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Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
That is going to be one awkward night Harrison #TheArchers
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Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Ok good when an episode ends with “it’s over” we can be sure it’s not #TheArchers
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Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Marky’s gang? We can’t have this solved already, that would be a massive let down. #TheArchers
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Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
I think it was Susan #TheArchers
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Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Did I miss the bit where we have peace in the Middle East? It still looks a bit fighty to me.
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Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
I wonder what’s really happening today while we watch Venezuela?
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Sheil @verabling.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
#TheArchers Borsetshire constabulary now have so much dirt on Ambridge residents that they’ll get their own police station for safety reasons. 🤣
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Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
I really hope nothing like this happens in my neighbourhood because honestly if I’m interviewed like this with all my neighbours I’d be confessing to anything. Is this what being interviewed by the police is like?? #TheArchers
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Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
How can George not know he’s an arsehole? #TheArchers
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Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Where is she?? #TheArchers
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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 24/12/2025
Just bumping the link for donations, if you can spare any moolah #DuvetKnowItsChristmas www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...
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Donate to Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2025, organized by Rhodri Marsden
Unbelievably, it's the 15th year of this thing. What is it? Improbably, the nig… Rhodri Marsden needs your support for Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2025
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Franglaise @franglaise.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
I’m entering The Teenager as potential winner of #Duvetknowitschristmas He’s had to move from his bedroom to the unconverted attic Cardboard floor & headboard is a nice touch which I’m sure he appreciates He think it looks like he’s living in a meth den #DuvetKnowItsChristmas
Dark attic room with stone walls, cardboard on floor with single mattress & antique coffee table (random)
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Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
In summer I keep my neighbours in home grown heirloom tomatoes and in autumn I am rich in apples and foraged walnuts, mushrooms and quinces that they give me. I feel so fortunate.
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Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
It really is an excellent #tomato year.
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Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
It’s my 6 year allotmentversary. On this day I sent Andrew this photo (he was in A&E after a motorbike accident) and told him this was totally fine! It’s not as lush today as usual, the drought has been hard, but it’s better, and I did it all myself (he died the following January). #allotment #widow
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Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
It took me 2.5 hours to sort out the chaos of 40 tomato plants in my tiny yard this morning. It turns out they do quite well if you abandon them for 2 weeks with auto irrigation. Rewarded with the first ripe Artisan Golden Bumblebee. #tomato
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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Got this really cool, ghostly picture by accident the other day in Dillon Beach, CA. It is a Heermann's gull with both it's shadow and reflection. #birds
Juvenile Heermann's gull (very dark all over) in flight, flying over very very shallow water. Flying to the right maybe two feet off the ground. It's shadow is to the right. Just below the shadow is a reflection on the sheen of water.
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Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Home from a lovely European adventure mostly by train to the Hungarian Grand Prix via Paris and Vienna. Now I can settle down and watch the race. It’s fair to say you go to F1 to see it, feel it and smell the burning rubber, but the race can be hard to follow. #F1
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Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Out of office on. It’s full time motorsport (tv then travel then live) for the next couple of weeks. #F1 #F2 #F3
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Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
You know you spend too much time in Spain when you're refreshing your languages to try and be polite in upcoming holiday and you think "what's French for por favor?". There will definitely be Spanish, my default foreign, accidentally slipping in with attempted French, German and Hungarian.
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Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
I hope these Jersey Devil tomatoes stop expanding and start ripening soon! #tomato
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Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Post work door-to-door courgette distribution to the neighbours successfully completed, it's still early enough in the season that they answer the door to me when I'm trying to get rid of excess produce.
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Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Pitched my tent in a field at Silverstone, lounging under a tree and there’s a bunch of some kind of Hairstreak butterflies at the top of the ash tree in mature hedgerow above my head. I don’t have my binoculars. This is a tragedy. People are looking at me funny, wondering why I’m staring at a tree.
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Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
We have lift off from the garden ant nests and the hundreds at gulls in the sky above are having a great day #FlyingAnts
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Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Colleague "you eat a lot of salad". Wait until she sees how much courgette I find myself eating #allotment #growyourown
Bright green lettuce in a  big patch, with remarkably neatly spaced Swiss Chard in the background. There are orange and yellow French Marigolds growing between them all4 Courgette plants loving life, bright yellow flowers and baby courgettes appearing. The white courgette plants have white patterns on the dark green leaves, the dark green courgette plants have brighter green leaves. I'm going to be eating a lot of courgettes.
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Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
That’s an onboard view that makes the heart stop a bit. #f2 all hail the halo
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Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
First allotment (school night) beer of the year, while I contemplate the consequences of none of my courgette plants getting eaten by slugs for the first time ever and now having approximately 6 times as many as a person needs. #allotment
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Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Isn’t she lovely? A Painted Lady in my little yard just now, sunning herself out of the wind. #butterflies
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Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Why wouldn’t a ceasefire start at the same time for both parties in a conflict? Is that normal?
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Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
I’ve had outstanding care from my local pharmacist today. medication, advice, what to look out for and told to go back tomorrow for antibiotics if it gets worse, but the insect that bit me and caused my entire (no exaggeration) forearm to swell can do one. Even air hurts.
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El espía seroserosiete @espiasordo.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
“Si la vida te da limones, haz limonada” Los limones que me da la vida:
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Good job the “no more foreign wars” guy won the election.
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