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Tom

@tomrees.eurosky.social
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Blogging the slow rehabilitation of the abandoned allotment we just took on. Also, random likes and rebleets of politics, science, climate, computing, and history. Trying to be pleasant.

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Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 3h
When I planted french beans, I made the A frame rows far apart because the bed was wide. On a whim I sowed carrot seeds down the middle. Now look what I pulled up! They're small but tasty, with a bonus of beautiful carrot tops for pesto. #allotment
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Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026
It's the first graphic on page 3. Go to the bottom: you can page through from 1 to 5. Most people come in on page 1 (as I did). It's a live feed. If you scroll down p3 you see the actual first announcement - which I've screen grabbed for you. Scroll up from there and you go through the timeline
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Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026
Here's how it was actually reported www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cq...
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Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 20/09/2026
Pretty impressed with the mustard seed cover crop. Sprouted and growing fast after just 1 week. Also put some field beans in there but they're yet to show. #allotment
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Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 15/09/2026
Current #compost bin status: overgrown. #allotment #allotmentlife
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Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 13/09/2026
1 kg of Cara maincrop seed potatoes became 17 kg a few months later. Not bad for a first attempt! #allotment #potato
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Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 13/09/2026
Questions the BBC should be asking
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Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 13/09/2026
www.dailymotion.com/video/xlesbt
Screenshot from the video of the song Frontier Psychiatrist by the Avalanches.
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Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 05/09/2026
Hmm, not sure about that
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Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 30/08/2026
Don't bring rubble onto an allotment! (Looking at you, Golden Larch Fencing of Southampton! I can the metal to my pile of scrap - this is just from this year's excavations
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Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 30/08/2026
A previous tenant (or perhaps the council) put in a corrugated iron fence, backfilled with rubble and glass. It's collapsed and spilled into my allotment. I did manage to get one sheet out with a lot of effort. The others I'm hoping to just bury.
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Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 26/08/2026
Just been to see it on Monday. Ravenna is an amazing place if you ever get the chance to visit. Full of amazing late roman buildings and mosaics. Here's the emperor Justinian (with his general Belisarius on his right)
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Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 26/08/2026
Compare with the mausoleum of Theoderic, 526 AD. It (probably) used to have a colonnade on the upper level.
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Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 25/08/2026
Here's one from Florence I took last week
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Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 24/08/2026
Incredible 6th century mosaics in Ravenna. Astonishing that they are still here, undamaged after all this time. A small glimpse of what Rome and Byzantium must have been back in the day.
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Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 23/08/2026
Bologna is such a beautiful city. This is the view from the clock tower
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Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 20/08/2026
Crikey. Americans are very sensitive. Can't let the children see Renaissance art! Let's see about this one.
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Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 20/08/2026
Labelled as adult content 😄 let's see about this one
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Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 20/08/2026
Today i visited #Firenze @museumbums.bsky.social #Florence
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Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 01/08/2026
Probably should have cut this courgette a bit earlier... #allotment
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Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 24/07/2026
What are these bugs on my french beans? Any ideas? #allotment
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Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 11/07/2026
The aliens have landed
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Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 10/07/2026
After years in endless meetings at work talking about it, my other half has only gone and done it. She's picked the low hanging fruit.
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Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 07/07/2026
I like that. Here's my local weather for the past few months, on a scale from -10 to +35 deg C as 0 to 100.
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Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 07/07/2026
One effect is that global warming becomes invisible, because a warming of 1 degree is not really visible on a 0 to 100 scale. You have to zoom in to see anything. So, not terribly useful in that context.
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Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 06/07/2026
A miracle on the courgette front. They kept rotting, but a bit of research suggested calcium deficiency, perhaps made worse by planting them where the brambles had been rotting down over winter. I ground up and spread a chalk pebble from the beach, and a week later they are looking magnificent
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Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 05/07/2026
Moved my compost bins to their final position at the end of the allotment
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Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 03/07/2026
My first potatoes. Thought there was going to be nothing down there, given how sickly the plants look. Then these beauties appeared. #allotment
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Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 30/06/2026
Me too
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Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 27/06/2026
Garlic did alright, despite the blight
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Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 16/06/2026
Found this monster of a ladybird larva on mine
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Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 15/06/2026
However, I have harvested my first #potato
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Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 15/06/2026
Something is hitting my first earlies. AI reckons it's magnesium deficiency and/or blight. #allotment
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Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 28/05/2026
The weather has finally broken here, so I took the chance to plant out a few lettuces I had lying around. Yes, they are mixed in randomly with some tomatoes and a lone French bean, thanks for asking. Behind I've sown carrots in the middle of more French beans. #allotment
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Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 27/05/2026
Here's the cleared ground. Getting there slowly!
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Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 27/05/2026
There's a rather lovely poppy growing in the wild part of my #allotment. And...
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Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 27/05/2026
Cleared the brambles and junk from the top corner of the #allotment, carried another 160l of water, harvested some peas. Time for a beer before watering the garden! Also...
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Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 27/05/2026
Nearly six and it's still 30 degrees in my #allotment - and the sun is still quite fierce too.
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Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 24/05/2026
We have cauliflowers! They look a bit scrappy. #allotment
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Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 23/05/2026
Tomatoes are in! The only #allotment task I could be bothered to do today, but they were starting to suffer in their little pots.
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Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 21/05/2026
Quite the tussle going on on my broad beans. Ants, big black aphids, and four ladybirds on this one plant alone. Plus the odd bumblebee! #allotmentlife
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Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 19/05/2026
Sculptures on #Hove seafront. Thanks @snowdropbooks2.bsky.social wouldn't have known about them but for the photo you posted!
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Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 17/05/2026
It's not just brambles. Here's some of the flint and rubble I've dug up so far.
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Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 17/05/2026
Looks like the weather is finally on the turn, so I've planted out the sweetcorn. Plan is to use the Indian method so there's squash in there and I'll plant some climbing french beans. Never grown any of them before so this may be a case of fools rushing in... #allotment #allotmentlife
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Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 10/05/2026
San Nicolás, Valencia. Beautiful ceiling art - often likened to the Sistine Chapel. #EuropeDay
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Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 09/05/2026
First Pimms of the season!
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Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 26/04/2026
How it started vs how it's going. My #allotment in May last year vs today.
A wall of brambles - how my allotment was when I took it on in May last year.My allotment now. Still not fully clear but several rows of beds and all the bramblems gone.
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Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 24/04/2026
I have sweetcorn and French beans going nicely, with squash just starting to come out. But the borlotti beans are a no show - I think the nights have been too cold.
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Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 19/04/2026
Today was a good day on the #allotment
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Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 19/04/2026
Hello #allotment and #allotmentlife folks of Bluesky, I have a question. What are these tiny flies all over these cabbage flowers? Are they lacewings?
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