Terry O'Connor @osteoconnor.bsky.social · 8hYour appreciation, please, for the year's first Merv. #TeamMoth 2443
Terry O'Connor @osteoconnor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026S is having a freezer purge, and these strawberries are defrosting for jam. Fortunately, Covid hasn't trashed my sense of smell, because this is gorgeously fragrant. Or fraise-grant? 1130
Terry O'Connor @osteoconnor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Current reading prompts a question for youse: have you ever used Letraset? 7110
Terry O'Connor @osteoconnor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I have moved literally barrowloads of windfalls from below our Bramley apple, yet it is still densely fruity. #allotment 190
Terry O'Connor @osteoconnor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Current reading. Must admit I was expecting a seething Green polemic, but it's much better than that. Data, balanced arguments, sources. 292
Terry O'Connor @osteoconnor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I nearly didn't post this one from Private Eye. Then thought 'Go on. @justrena.bsky.social would have loved it'. I hope so. 05116
Terry O'Connor @osteoconnor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Well worth the early (for me) start, for a clutch of Black Rustic goths and Bluey! 0130
Terry O'Connor @osteoconnor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026For a touch of Northern Smug, here's sunny Scarbados on Sunday. 110
Terry O'Connor @osteoconnor.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Interesting clouds over Yorkshire this evening. Like sprocket-holes on a film strip. 0120
Terry O'Connor @osteoconnor.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Saturday? Well, a couple of friends dropped in this morning, then we drove to the coast, visiting some old friends along the way, had dinner with another chum, went to the theatre (Ayckbourn: yes, we're in Scarbro).... and Sunday's quite full too! 😴 070
Terry O'Connor @osteoconnor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026We're off to that Lancashire (gasp!) to be educated in things genetic by @boothicus.bsky.social 150
Terry O'Connor @osteoconnor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Bit of a damp trap last night. An Autumnal Rustic and a couple of Loonies mean Autumn has officially begun. #TeamMoth 0101
Terry O'Connor @osteoconnor.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Isn't he the inflatable co-pilot out of Airplane? 010
Terry O'Connor @osteoconnor.bsky.social · 07/09/2026With the drought and all that, it has been a tough year on the #allotment, so I am quite unreasonably chuffed that the carrots are, well, satisfactory. 1170
Terry O'Connor @osteoconnor.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Mostly depressing news this morning, so here's a Turnip Moth to cheer up all you BSky Baldricks. 061
Terry O'Connor @osteoconnor.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Death by torchlight at 04.30 this morning. Lucky spider gets a Large Yellow Underwing snack. #TeamMoth 180
Terry O'Connor @osteoconnor.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Not many moths about, but Pentatoma rufipes turned up. #TeamMoth 050
Terry O'Connor @osteoconnor.bsky.social · 03/09/2026That must be why I find Munsell soil colour charts so engaging! 130
Terry O'Connor @osteoconnor.bsky.social · 02/09/2026In the spirit of Magritte, ceci n'est pas un huître. 130
Terry O'Connor @osteoconnor.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Treated my self to a little light reading from two engaging authors. 🙂 182
Terry O'Connor @osteoconnor.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Lego insects at Harlow Carr gardens. Buff-tailed bumble and violet oil beetle. 0153
Terry O'Connor @osteoconnor.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Then I shall feel a little smug at having a few C-B Sallows last night in an otherwise miserable catch! 120
Terry O'Connor @osteoconnor.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Chilly, dewy night for moths. This Old Lady dropped by. 040
Terry O'Connor @osteoconnor.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Our allotment is on a site that began in 1917 as a co-operative, then became an association in 1922. As a result, plotholders own their piece of land. It can't be sold from under us, and any would-be developer would have to negotiate with *a lot* of separate owners. 180
Terry O'Connor @osteoconnor.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Fun though it is to grow new and unusual tomato varieties, good ol' Alicante has been the best under glass in this challenging summer, and Sungold outdoors. #allotment 1120
Terry O'Connor @osteoconnor.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Good moth night. Did I see a Clifden Nonpareil around the trap at midnight? Yes! Did I get a photo before it flew off? No!! But this gorgeous Gold Spot did hang around. #TeamMoth 0150
Terry O'Connor @osteoconnor.bsky.social · 13/08/2026OK, BSky entomologists. Might this beastie be Pimpla rufipes? Ichneumons are not my thing. 043
Terry O'Connor @osteoconnor.bsky.social · 07/08/2026I feel seen.... From the current Private Eye. 020
Terry O'Connor @osteoconnor.bsky.social · 06/08/2026In other news, the 2nd hand bookshop in Harewood obviously heard I was coming and circulated a description. 1369
Terry O'Connor @osteoconnor.bsky.social · 06/08/2026A rather haunting portrait. Henry, 6th Earl of Harewood, on leave from the Great War. A face that has seen too much. John St Helier Lander, 1916. 030
Terry O'Connor @osteoconnor.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Careful now, it can become a bit of an obsession! Though if you're of the nocturnal persuasion, that may not matter. Here's a Mint Moth from last night. 120
Terry O'Connor @osteoconnor.bsky.social · 28/07/2026This one, from a car park in Aotearoa-New Zealand. 110
Terry O'Connor @osteoconnor.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Aubergine season is off to a good start. Hubris? 040
Terry O'Connor @osteoconnor.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Ripon cathedral also has some excellent personal names on grave slabs. 000
Terry O'Connor @osteoconnor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026From the latest Private Eye. A touch of nostalgia. 181
Terry O'Connor @osteoconnor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026New book purchase. Disgraceful self-indulgence. 1103
