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Prof_GD_Foster

@profgdfoster.bsky.social
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Retired Prof in Molecular Plant Pathology: Emeritus in Everyway: enjoys life voraciously: enjoys beer: enjoys family & 2 dogs even more than beer(!) L'pool FC through thick & thin

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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The English are very confused about my wee Norn Iron. Hope this helps.
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The latest sauce has been appropriately labelled.
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The hottest sauce yet. Made with one of world’s hottest a Carolina Reaper. It even looks evil. I suffered a bit trying its neat raw power. Carolina Reaper is about x500 -1000 hotter than the jalapeno on your pizza.
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So who agrees with this list. How many have you watched. 📺
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
First time growing these weirdos. We think we’re going to make Kohlrabigemüse with them. You’ll probably have to google that, we had to.
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Just love the colour of this variety. Lilac wand 🍆
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Blimey !! 8 years ago today !! When I was still pretending to be a scientist 🙃
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The “egg” is out for the first time this summer. Just been too hot to oven cook outside.
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Some people occasionally ask how I spend my days now I’m retired-well-a toy we’d ordered for our grandson arrived today but it also included a free gift of 3 tiny figurines that needed to be put together. As they’d contain bits too small for him-well-that’s how I spend my days 😂
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
He was a great footballer but also a really really nice man. RIP.
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Pot planted onions. First harvest. Red, yellow and white onions 🧅. Amazing what you can generate from a pot.
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
🥔🥔🥔
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
35 years !! 35 bloomin years. As of today that’s how long this wonderful woman has put up with me as her hubby. Don’t know how or why she’s done it but I’m very pleased that she has. Happy wedding anniversary Diana ❤️
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Well blow me over with a feather !! Having worked with Chenopodium amaranticolor for over 30 years as a plant virologist I never ever knew it was called tree spinach and sold as a herb !! Am I the only stupid plant virologist/plant pathologist/ plant scientist out there.
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Holly shit 😱 Bristol !! Feels like 49oC. And as sure as hell it does. And more.
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
😱😱😱⚡️⚡️⚡️ It’s coming 😱 Look out Bristol !!!
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
You know you’ve made it in academia when several hundred undergrads sing your name in a song at their leaving Ball (Wonderwall)
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Essentially found my life bio in alcoholic miniatures Buckfast - aka Lurgan Champagne Potato vodka- Ireland Liverpool vodka- mighty reds Sweet potato rum & Sweet potato gin - I’ve worked in sweet potato viruses in my job Challenge anyone else to manage this 🤪
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Before the horrible portacabin things appeared. Those beautiful gardens designed by me. Ruined by others. 🙃
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Not a bad days discovery. Now time to wack them on the barby. 🎣
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Happy 100th to the big man.
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
When I appeared on hit BBC podcast #Uncanny on my time in Alanbrooke Hall QUB that was weird enough. But now a band has many an album based on it all & Room 6:11 You can listen to the album from the link below tinyurl.com/3zv8j574 Come on @danny_robins time for the movie🎥
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
104,000 people at this concert. And who was in charge of bossing them around. Yep, her…… ❤️ First photos as BTS make live return in front of huge crowd www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
😂😂😂😂😂
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Needed hot sausage roll and hot drink as beach very windy and cold 🥶
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Before I retired, colleagues couldn’t believe that I’d just walk away easily. Saying I was so passionate about science and lecturing and my commitment to the university as a whole. You’ll get bored they said. Err…..no 😂 Best life after 🙃
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
One man (little old me) and his dog.
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
My view as a virologist over 2 years before COVID hit !!
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Very appropriate 😂😂😂 My better half would agree 🙃
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Our kids never threw out a book their entire lives. Therefore we’ve about 25 years worth stored in our loft for both of them. We’ve finally decided to sort Finding some classics. Fishing with Foster….The legend begins 😂 could change ‘fishing’ for a wide range of things 😂😂😂
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Deffo me towards the end….. 😂
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Only UK people will understand and also those of a certain age. ‪Still very very proud of all my badges especially the silver. Still have all my letters from Biddy Baxter. The nicest person I’ve ever met in my childhood universe. ‬ ‪#BluePeter‬
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
As an academic/scientist I might’ve worked on sweet potato diseases for many years. But I’ve still got a lot to learn about growing them outside in the UK. But still not to bad a crop so far 🍠
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Needed a drink to get thru Dancing Queen and Super Trouper
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
HBD 🥳 to my very own Queen of the Slipstream ❤️
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Front row seats in pub in Croyde for Liverpool match ⚽️ Pint of lovely chilled cider and chilli nachos. #heaven
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Tonight’s menu. Just a little something I rattled up the good lady. But she’s worth it.
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Always grown Maris Piper. First time ever growing Maris Peer. Looking forward to outcome. 🥔 Anyone out there grown Peer before.
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Our homegrown potatoes, leeks and onions are about to be turned into chunky leek & potato soup by my better half. Can highly recommend this recipe 🥣 www.waitrose.com/ecom/recipe/...
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
That’s last 🥔 pot harvested. All from a single pot. Good old reliable Maris Piper. Now time to plant Summer Planting Potatoes (also known as Second Cropping or 'Xmas potatoes') Again grandson Dylan & other half Diana nowhere in sight. They might get sacked as my potato pickers🙃
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
We’ve had the curtains permanently closed in the house for several days now to try keep the heat out and the house cool in the awful UK heatwave. We’ve just opened the curtains and had a peek to see if the heat has reduced any, and……..
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
As the UK suffers (and me) in this heatwave I’m reminded what sort of phrases we’d use back in my wee homeland of Norn Iron. Us Irish melt at these temps 🥵
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
I chitted all my seed potatoes really early this year and planted them out super early in pots with cloche covers initially. This is the yield from single pot of one of my maincrop 🥔 'Rooster' A great yield in July when you would normally harvest September to November
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
We can HIGHLY RECOMMEND you all go and see The Ballad of Wallace Island @BalladofWallis
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Any of my planty followers recognise what this is. There’ll be a follow up question.
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Another day potato picking with the wee man. The first potatoes were Jazzy salad potatoes that we posted a while back. These latest ones are Rooster main crop. All produced from a seed potato in a pot. 🥔
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Prof_GD_Foster @profgdfoster.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
And all grown in pots. Everyone who is not a serious gardener should give it a go. Still loads of starter veg available in garden centres.
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