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Alex Anderson @urbanwizardry.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Form following function... Shallots hanging on twisted ropes of their own leaves. Thought I’d try it this year instead of braiding and I couldn’t be happier with how it turned out. #gardening #gardeningsky #growyourown #gyo

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Alex Anderson @urbanwizardry.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

My first border tulips of the year have got their party clothes on 🌷

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Alex Anderson @urbanwizardry.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

It’s early sowing time! Kinda crowded in the greenhouse with all the over-wintering stuff still here too, but I’ll find room somewhere! #gardening #gardeningsky #growyourown

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Alex Anderson @urbanwizardry.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Icy night tonight, so don’t mind if we do

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Alex Anderson @urbanwizardry.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Ivy and a touch of frost today.

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Alex Anderson @urbanwizardry.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

My greenhouse pepper plants are finally going into overwintering mode (or done-for mode, we’ll see how they go this year) so everything got picked, ready or not. Mostly ‘De Cayenne’ that were left, with a few plucky sweet peppers thrown in. #GardeningSky #Gardening

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Alex Anderson @urbanwizardry.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

The shortest day of the year has dawned - where I am, anyway. I’m looking forward to another go-round and all the comings and goings of the plants and creatures that entails, but I am especially happy at this time of for the returning sun and the longer days to come.

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Alex Anderson @urbanwizardry.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

The temperature’s been all over the place and most things that need a bit of cover are in their winter digs. Like this Alstroemeria “Indian Summer” - one of the most popular varieties for good reason - which is loving the extended season it gets.

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Alex Anderson @urbanwizardry.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Since we’re loving Wicked right now, here are my two copies… one’s a hardback First, and one’s a post-West End show tie-in paperback, but the paperback is signed, so I’m honour bound to keep both. It’s hard work, giving up those two extra inches of bookshelf for book nerd reasons…

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Alex Anderson @urbanwizardry.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

We’ve been away on a city break, so I’m seeing my garden in the light for the first time since the middle of last week. This was unexpected. #gardening

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Alex Anderson @urbanwizardry.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

There’s debate over what “real reading” is? Pictured here are facsimile copies from the First Folio of Shakespeare. Written to be spoken yet people have bought them to read for pleasure for four hundred years. So it goes both ways. What matters is that you love the words. The arguments are nonsense.

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Alex Anderson @urbanwizardry.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I call these two my Shelves of Outstanding Britishness 📖🎩 #BookSky #AgathaChristie

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Alex Anderson @urbanwizardry.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

First night of actual freezing in Cambridgeshire. Still no snow, just a light dusting of frost and my bins are frozen shut. Magical. If it’s cold where you are, I hope yours is more fun 🙂

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Alex Anderson @urbanwizardry.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I was just sent this picture from Kings Cross, and more importantly St Pancras, in the snow. I’m enjoying the pictures of the UK snow today; unfortunately South Cambridgeshire is just one big rain puddle. Snowflakes to the left of me Blankets to the right Here I am, stuck in the middle with you.

Snow lightly falling looking over market stalls toward the grade listed apartments and clock tower at St Pancras railway station

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Alex Anderson @urbanwizardry.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Another great example of books furnishing a room from someone to whom colour is a vital part of how they experience and engage with the world. I love to see how people make their books part of their lives and homes, and all this #bookshelf posting is showing me more than I could have ever imagined

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Alex Anderson @urbanwizardry.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Now here’s a different approach to shelving books… not sure it would work with my oddball collection of book sizes, but you can’t deny it’s proving that “books furnish a room”. I also know some people that would gasp I horror 🙂 would you stack yours like this?

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Awais Khan @awaiskhan.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

It is rather astonishing how quickly my followers are increasing here. Thank you so much, everyone! I'm here for all the bookish stuff! Apart from being an author, I'm an avid reader too. This is my little library at home 🥰. Do you like it? Follow me on Instagram too @awaiskhanauthor

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Alex Anderson @urbanwizardry.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

This is one of the favourite books that I own, “A Vade Mecum for Malt-Worms”. A vade mecum is a handbook, and a malt-worm is a beer lover. Printed in 1860, it’s a reprint of pamphlets originally printed and sold at The Crown in Paternoster Row in London around 1720. Probably the original pub guide 🍺

Book opened to the block printed title page, in various typefaces. A GUIDE TO GOOD FELLOWS.
BEING
A DEScRIPTIoN of the manners and Customs of the most Eminent Publick Houses, in and about the Cities of LONDON and WESTMINSTER.
WITH
A HINT on the PROPS (or Principal CUSTOMERS)
of each House.
In a method so plain that any Thirsty PERSON (of the meanest Capacity) may easily find the nearest Way from one house to another.
llustrated with proper cuts.
Dedicated to the Brewers.

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Alex Anderson @urbanwizardry.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I put it in a reply yesterday, but since there’s so much book love on BlueSky at the moment I’ll “proper” post it again… one of my happy places, and a sanctuary in a crazy world. A lifelong dream come true.

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Alex Anderson @urbanwizardry.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I didn’t post it anywhere at the time, but I did remember to snap a photo (before it went in G&Ts): my very last cucumber of the year (“Carmen”), picked on Tuesday. Mid-November, who’d have thought it.

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