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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

A squeezer stile for another day. The stile looks quite forgiving for a change, they are usually more suitable for skinny walkers 😳 I'm extending my walking routes but resisting anywhere which might be slippy or boggy.

Two upright stones sited in overgrown grass next to a dry stone wall. A squeezer stile with the view of fields in the distance

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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

🌱 This anemone has finally opened, it has a quiff. I'm knackered after completely emptying the pond and starting from scratch. Pulled out a massive mat of roots which were the shape of the liner.

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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🌱Got Mum to the hairdressers, she was delighted,I earned some brownie points. On the way home a red kite swooped down on to the road in front and back up into to the field, never seen one before and it was pretty close up. Think the roses in the garden are having a fine 2nd flush!

Claire Austen rose with plenty of buds, against the blue sky

Sainsbury's rose as I like to call it- bought from the supermarket

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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Pre sunset, very yellow sky out there now

Short rainbow on the horizon, looking across the field over the valley

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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🌱 second flush with wasp. Been bog eyed most of the day after those horrid stinging eye drops, wearing off now thankfully

Centura Montana in flower with a wasp on one side of the bud

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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🌱 The garden has been very busy, insects making the most of a beautiful day. Been watching a huge buff tailed bumble bee- must be a queen, lumbering around the last of the trailing lobelia

Hesperantha coccinea with some Verbena bonariensis

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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Sigh, great to get out for a walk but it was the first one since my holiday and very different from paddling along the sea edge. Plenty of good mornings but missed saying bom dia.

A herd of Jacob sheep lying down in a field

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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Uncovered a newt in the garden 🌱

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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A little vision of prettiness off the side of the boardwalk here in Lagos, Portugal 🌱

A close up of hares tail grass mixed with a purple wild flower possibly toadflax

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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

🌱A white sweet pea bloom along with the pink ones

A tangle of everlasting sweet peas, pink flowers and a branch with white flowers

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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Husband grabbed the Radio Times because Wham were on the front. £5.50! 😲 For one week?! Good grief

Front cover of the tv listing's magazine with Gierge Michael and Andrew Ridgley posing in China in the 80s

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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

🌱2nd flush starting, Vanessa Bell and Gertrude Jekyll

Light yellow rose with green leaves and buds surrounding

Pink rose withe green leaves surrounding

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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

🌱Two echinacea survived the slugs and snails, others were scoffed early on. Rudbeckia planted to honour my Dad, his favourites.

Two Pink echinacea inthe foreground with yellow rudbeckia behind

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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

This was on the back of the door from the storage area in the old Mark's and Spencers shop, Keighley. I've never worked in retail so don't know if it's a common sign. I found it a bit odd!

A large sign fixed to a door saying Are You Questioning Strangers? Red lettering, the word You in a different font

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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

🌱Garden is very windswept today

Nepeta in the background, purple loosestrife, blue and magenta cornflowers in the foreground

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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

A nice reminder of how far my garden has come in 4 years and a pleasure to be able to use it today. Fed up of hiding from the heat.

Two photos, a before and after shot of the garden. The first a concrete desert, the second a chaotic but very green space

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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Says an old, out dated TV show host, extremely incontinent

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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I'm a saddo, took this photo of the garden at almost peak frothyness because I'm up in Scotland for 6 days cat sitting for my daughter. I will miss my flowers! Husband will send me photo's of our cat 😁

A bed of mock orange, roses, sweet william in my garden

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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

🌱Painted Ladies are new visitors to this garden and they are very welcome. Enjoying the nepeta which has gone a bit wayward, constant drone of bumble bees all over it

PaintedLady butterfly feeding on the nepeta

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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

🌱 Emily Brontë rose, David Austin. After a rain shower. Pub lunch today but no booze in solidarity with my mate who can't drink any longer. We just get excited for fish goujons 😋

Close up of an open rose bloom with many petals, 3 reddish buds surrounded by rich green leaves

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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

🌱been waiting for the roses to open up. Here's Scarborough Fair, David Austin.

A close up of an open pink rose surrounded by green leaves

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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Walked via Holden Park in Oakworth which has a victorian man made grotto all down one side courtesy of sir Isaac Holden I guess

A view of a pathway through a man made grotto with boulders either side, plants growing amongst them

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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

The evening routine has commenced, Barry comes to sit on my knee, half on half off due to his wobbly backend. After a minute of stroking I say don't lick my jumper 🙄 He gives it a while then tries to steal the seat. All a ploy to get me to warm the sofa. Every night 😅

Close up of a tabby cat sitting on my knee

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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Happy plod round the fields and wood this morning. Beautiful sunshine, dry paths but fab to find the pond had filled and a duck making the most of it. It was dry last year. My legs are waking up their muscle memory, heart is a little way behind, more practice needed!

A view up through the trees in the wood. The sunlight is shining down on the mossy hill

A mallard duck dipping upside down in a pond

A moss covered high stone wall, with a gap making an entrance into the wood

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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

🌱The Pasque flower has opened in sunshine today

3 flowers open on this pasque flowers, cerise pink petals with yellow centre

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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

The painting Snowmen from the Jim Moir exhibition at Cartwright Hall Bradford. I loved this one, it is sculptural and bizarre. Look at those teeth!

6 gorilla like heads painted in a white wash which makes the grotesque realism of their grotty human like teeth really stand out

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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Yawn, I'm so tired after 2 poor nights of sleep, due to a wobbly cat. I'd go for a lie down but....

Sleeping tabby cat on my bed up near the pillow

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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Sad to hear Glen Baxter has gone today. I still have this poster, it was signed but the signature faded a long time ago, we ambushed him in the Manor House and he was kind enough to indulge us enthusiastic art students. Always fond of his stuff

An exhibition poster for Glen Baxter prints from 1985. The image is in a cartoon style with 3 boys looking at a retro machine with a TV screen, it shows the torso of a boy in shorts heading off to the left, he has a dog tail!
Text says "The situation looks hopeless sir, those Baxter drawings are heading straight to Ilkley!"

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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

A post of ladybirds and a corner of donkeys! Very breezy walk, cobwebs truly blown away

A close up of a wooden fence post with a cluster of ladybirds huddled together

The corner of a field with 8 donkeys sheltering, on a very breezy day

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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Very tempting to pack him away! Just got a refund from the vets after being charged twice for the same antibiotics. Been stewing about that all weekend

Tabby cat sitting in a large red Christmas tree storage bag

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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Little does he know, he's off to the vets soon

Tabby cat curled up, asleep on a bean bag

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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Barry forming a backwards question mark. Fitting for the between times of Christmas and New Year.

Tabby cat sitting on a sofa, his tail curled up vertically on the cushion behind him

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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Merry Christmas from our household. Barry was caught mirroring the expression on the kangaroo tree ornament! Warm wishes for a cosy time 🎄

Tabby cat looking towards the camera from the windowsill with Christmas tree branches to the right. A tree ornament from Australia with a kangaroo with surf board is sporting a similar expression to the cat

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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Had a muddy walk but managed to stay upright 😁 lovely day. Returned to the vets with the extra medication I'd got yesterday- wrong dose! I opened them and wondered how the hell I'd get them down the cat they were huge. Gave me 400mg instead of 40mg! All sorted now

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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Threw my Christmas wreath together yesterday. I was pleased to find the local garden centre were giving away tree offcuts for a donation to the hospice I already volunteer for 😊 Enjoyed clipping bits from the garden and putting it together. May wear thin after the next 3 I need to make

A Christmas garland or wreath made from greenery from the garden

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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Here's proof I managed to deliver the bridesmaid to my daughter's wedding! It was a fantastic day

Wedding photo with the bride sitting down, her bridesmaid sitting on the arm of the settee. A Christmas tree behind them

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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Barry freaked me out with this pupil shape, I was sick with worry. Later it became more normal. Had a phone call with the vet and she's reassured me. Will follow up in a month. OMG, I'm now indulging in a worry free morning 😊

Photo of a tabby cat's eye with an abnormal shaped pupil

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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Its been a rotten few days, Barry came off worse in a cat scrap and his eye was caught. He's beginning to recover but not keen on the 4x a day eye drops etc. My poor little soldier! Off to the vets again on Monday

Tabby cat sitting on a window sill, one yellow eye, one red

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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Well there's no getting away from it, I hit 60 today. Curry with the girls later

Two birthday cards both with a large number 60 on the front, a ceramic pig ornament between them

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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Just home from a 7 mile round walk taking in Haworth moor. Avoided Main St because its half term and its been recently tick tocked 😆

Blue sky with a few dark grey clouds, trees with autumnal colours and old mill chimney standing between the trees

A rainbow arching over a single tree on the moor

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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

From yesterday's very wet walk. The theory was if I was climbing huge hills I'd get soaked anyway. Didn't factor in my glasses steaming up so I blundered across the fields to home

A line of creamy white, large toadstools on the woodland floor

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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Trip to Saltaire this morning. Kicking around until Salts Mill opens

Victorian stone built church with a round spire and clock, stone pillars around the front of the building. Trees changing colour to the right

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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Heading cross country to the pub. Haven't met up with Jools for a month, I'm expecting she'll have somat to say

A walled path ahead, fields either side. Looking towards Haworth in the distance, an old mill chimney on the left sticking out of a wooden valley. Blue sky.

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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Barry found it too much on the windowsill above the radiator. Cooling off on the floor, looking like some kind of carousel ride or maybe if Stubbs painted cats.. 🤷‍♀️

A tabby cat flopped out on the carpet at full stretch, his tail curled like a hook

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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

A capture from a walk this week. Rain in the forecast today so working out a plan B just in case

Cows grazing in a small valley with trees in the background

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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

This handrail always makes me chuckle, unless it's supposed to be a handrail for toddlers, it is set at the height of my knee. Were the Victorians really short? Has the wall subsided? Keeps me entertained 😄

Stone steps against a stone wall with an old metal handrail

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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Coming across a field of pigs was the absolute highlight of my walk! I love pigs 😍

Seven little pigs walking towards me in a field

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Jackie @plasterjak.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Aww, my husband ordered this for me. He may scoff at my Suede devotion but knows the way to my heart ❤️

Small boxed cd, the new release from Suede

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