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Rosie @punsandrosie.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

#TheWinter10 for the final week of meteorological winter. Snowdrop, cherry plum, daisy, lesser celandine, kidney vetch, comfrey, dandelion, gorse, winter heliotrope, salmonberry. Co. Derry #wildflowerhour

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Rosie @punsandrosie.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

In the mood for wild garlic in everything just now, it's so fresh and green and looks and tastes like spring. Picked a bunch this afternoon and I've just stirred some into my lunchtime bowl of tomato soup. Gives most things a bit of a lift, unless of course you dislike garlic.

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Rosie @punsandrosie.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

This week’s #TheWinter10 for #WildflowerHour. Snowdrop, cherry plum, hazel (male), hazel (female), winter heliotrope, alexanders, laurel, lesser celandine, alder (catkin), gorse. Co Derry

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Rosie @punsandrosie.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

#TheWinter10 for #WildflowerHour this week. Cherry plum, hazel (male), winter heliotrope, gorse, snowdrop, daisy, comfrey, groundsel, alexanders, dandelion. Co. Derry

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Rosie @punsandrosie.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

#TheWinter10 for #WildflowerHour this week - snowdrop, winter heliotrope, hazel (male), lesser celandine, cherry plum, dandelion, gorse, alexanders, groundsel, laurel. Co. Derry

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Rosie @punsandrosie.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Thinking of blues that grace my garden for #GardensHour and I always come back to The Blue Pot. It’s big enough for me to climb inside and sit down (should I ever want to) and I absolutely love it. Blue is my favourite colour. #BlueMonday

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Rosie @punsandrosie.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

#TheWinter10 for this week’s #WildflowerHour. Comfrey, winter heliotrope, lesser celandine, hazel (female), laurel, alexanders, dandelion, gorse, hazel (male), daisy.

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Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Aries: All your prayers will be answered this week! The answer will be no.

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Rosie @punsandrosie.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Cherry plum in flower against a blue sky. Great to see these first signs of spring.

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Rosie @punsandrosie.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Delighted to get a start made on the garden today, even though I could hardly move because of the five layers of clothes I was wearing. Social media reminded me earlier that this day last year there was snow lying four inches thick on my patio table. Not gardening weather at all.

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Rosie @punsandrosie.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Carrot, cumin and ginger soup with the first of the wild garlic. The leaves are still tiny and the flavour is very subtle, but it still feels like a taste of spring.

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Jeffw @jeffw.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Never forget that EVERYTHING you read on the internet is true and accurate and meant with the utmost gravity and seriousness.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Goodnight from Fay Walker, preparing a merciless curse for all those who use the tower block lift as a public urinal. Goodnight from the ghosts of the Weychester University Caving Club, continuously hoping for rescue from the Worm’s Hole since 1949. Goodnight from Hookland.

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Rosie @punsandrosie.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Doing the dry January thing. Started a week late but January has five weeks this year, as if four wasn't plenty. Not much fun so far, but then nor is January. The year's bullying firstborn, to be followed by drab little February, the runt of the litter.

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Rosie @punsandrosie.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

A breezy afternoon walk to the ‘cake tin’ with moody skies thrown in.

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Rosie @punsandrosie.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I have to say GoFundMe really puts me off. Personally I find it hard to think of a scenario where I'd ask complete strangers for money. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with asking strangers for money, and unforeseen situations can happen to us all. It's just not for me.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Goodnight from Amber Soans, humming old mere tithe songs as she sews flags for the upcoming Empress Eel parade. Goodnight from Maxine Till, sure her great-grandmother’s portrait photo has changed its expression as a sign that her new lover is wrong ’un. Goodnight from Hookland.

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Rosie @punsandrosie.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

A winter wreath I made this afternoon. The ivy berries aren’t quite ripe yet and the oranges are leftovers from Christmas but I love the dark, rich tones of late winter evergreen foliage.

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

When making tea for a group, making it in a teapot is no more effort and much more inviting.

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Rosie @punsandrosie.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

A calm winter seascape at Castlerock, Co.Derry.

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Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Aries: Against impossible odds, this year looks even worse for you.

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Rosie @punsandrosie.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Today’s #TheWinter10 for #WildflowerHour - winter heliotrope, kidney vetch, gorse, comfrey, red campion, creeping buttercup, alexanders, ragwort, groundsel, dandelion. Co Londonderry

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Rosie @punsandrosie.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Not much going on wildflower-wise this week, only managed 5 of TheWinter10 for the #NewYearPlantHunt. Hoped I might find more. Ragwort, herb Robert, winter heliotrope, dandelion, common gorse. Castlerock, Co Derry this afternoon. #wildflowerhour

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Rosie @punsandrosie.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Presents all wrapped and ready to pack, just need to glaze and bake the ham, make panna cotta for the Christmas Eve party, bath the dogs and do my nails and that’s me sorted for tomorrow. I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas.

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Rosie @punsandrosie.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

#TheWinter10 this week…oxeye daisy, cow parsley, wild mustard, common daisy, hogweed, sow thistle, buttercup, winter heliotrope, dandelion, common gorse. #WildflowerHour

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Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Aries: Ask not for whom the drone comes. It comes for you.

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Rosie @punsandrosie.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

I had just resigned myself to getting soaked…

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Rosie @punsandrosie.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Surprising to find #TheWinter10 this week after Storm Darragh’s passage through last weekend. Ox-eye daisy, winter heliotrope, common vetch, common gorse, dandelion, cow parsley, groundsel, buttercup, ivy, sea mayweed. Co. Derry, Northern Ireland #wildflowerhour

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Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Aries: No one will talk to you after you’ve had your coffee either.

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Rosie @punsandrosie.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

#TheWinter10 this week - winter heliotrope, sea mayweed, fuchsia, yarrow, common kidney vetch, herb robert, dandelion, groundsel, common ragwort, escallonia. Downhill, Co.Derry #wildflowerhour

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Rosie @punsandrosie.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Today my favourite greengrocer had padron peppers, or what I once saw described on the menu of an actual tapas restaurant as 'pardon peppers' - I love me a typo. Anyway, I bought some. A tip: if you're gonna cook pardon peppers at home, switch off the smoke alarm and open a few windows.

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Very British Problems @soverybritish.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I hate feeling optimistic. It just means everything’s about to go wrong.

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Rosie @punsandrosie.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Not a wildflower I’d expect to see in December but amazed by how the low winter sun brings out all the detail.

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Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Aries: You are invisible. Go wild.

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Rosie @punsandrosie.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Here are #thewinter10 for #wildflowerhour this evening - herb robert, bramble, yarrow, dandelion, common vetch, ivy, red valerian, holly, gorse, shepherd’s purse. Downhill, Co Londonderry

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Matt Castle @mothc.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I keep chuckling over a bit from Mitford's 'Love in a Cold Climate': the parents refuse to explain what Oscar Wilde was convicted of, so young Bob says he'll find out when he goes to Eton.

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Rosie @punsandrosie.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Pecan, pear and cranberry upside down cake…

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Rosie @punsandrosie.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

It's about time there were fresh cranberries in the shops. No, it's not too early - I want to make the pear, pecan and cranberry upside down cake from Diana Henry's 'Roast Figs, Sugar Snow'. And it's not too early for the family sized boxes of Tunnock's Teacakes either, I have one home with me.

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Rosie @punsandrosie.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

The garden just now. The forecast promised fog but I seem to have my own microclimate up here. Winter’s still got novelty value but by the time the new year comes I’ll be ready to flee the country.

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Word of the day, though I’m sure no one will need it, is ‘eye servant’ (16th century): an individual who only pays attention or works hard when the boss is looking.

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Rosie @punsandrosie.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

A beautiful day, and what a beautiful place to be…

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Etymology of the day: to be ‘blowing a hoolie’ (or ‘hooley’) was probably inspired by the Orkney word ‘hoolan’, a howling gale, with a touch of the ‘hooley’ that is a very noisy party thrown in.

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Rosie @punsandrosie.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Bringing #thewinter10 this week in white and gold…sea mayweed, ivy, gorse, cat’s ear, burnet rose, yarrow, ragwort, daisy, buttercup, meadowsweet. #wildflowerhour

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Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Aries: Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll die from cosmic radiation halfway there.

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Rosie @punsandrosie.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

#3goodthings - an afternoon stroll in a favourite place - gorse coming into bloom everywhere, a cheerful winter stalwart with its lovely coconut scent - an invitation to an 18th birthday party tomorrow, something to look forward to

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

The original ‘tosspot’, in the 16th century, was someone who ‘tossed back’ their ‘pot’ of beer and then immediately went back for another.

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Rosie @punsandrosie.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Today’s #3goodthings - Looking forward to a cosy weekend’s reading - A walk in the sunshine despite the bitter cold - Settling down later with a perfectly mixed gin & tonic

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Rosie @punsandrosie.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Actually I won't be all that sorry to see #StormBert. The snow has moved on to make way for the inevitable rain and it's freezing. Both dogs have cabin fever and it's too cold for H as she's not really able to run to warm up. I'll be glad of the warmer temperatures. Winter sucks.

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Rosie @punsandrosie.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Tempted to have a go at this for Christmas Eve. Preparing the charcuterie board and cooking the festive ham are always ‘my’ little jobs. My hostess (rightly) believes in outsourcing.

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Rosie @punsandrosie.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Five authors I've read 5+ books by: Paul Theroux Stephen King Lionel Shriver Sebastian Faulks Donal Ryan #Booksky

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