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Alex Anderson @urbanwizardry.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

What variety do you have? We have Brown Turkey and we’ve had 6 from the greenhouse so far, but we transplanted the outdoor one this year so I don’t think we’ll have any from there

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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 · 02/02/2025

I sowed beans, tomatoes and peppers (all for greenhouse growing) last weekend. Beans are pushing up but not quite out yet, and tomatoes broke the surface sometime between yesterday morning and now. Exciting times!

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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 · 22/01/2025

I always try to see which books we have in common, there’s always one if you stare hard enough!

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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 · 08/01/2025

I’ve got my seed order in and will be starting early sowings of chillies the day it arrives! 🌶️🌱

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Alex Anderson @urbanwizardry.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

I first read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in 1985, 35 years after it was published; and it made no difference at all :)

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

I’m willing to bet your produce was both tastier and healthier than the supermarket equivalents, so I’d call that being ahead

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Alex Anderson @urbanwizardry.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

My dad owned a second hand/antiquarian bookshop and I basically grew up in it. Stepping into one anywhere I find one will always bring me a deep sense of peace and happiness.

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Alex Anderson @urbanwizardry.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

TIL! Had to look it up, did not know this was a thing.

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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

We’re really lucky that there’s a local magazine for the villages around here that always has a page for the bin schedules so we can just cut it out and pin it on the pinboard. Without that I’d constantly be on the council website

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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 · 02/12/2024

Books furnish a room, no one should tell you how to arrange yours any more than they should tell you what curtains you like. If it brings you joy, revel in it ❤️

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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 · 28/11/2024

I like that you’ve managed to turn them into a Hue/Lightness colour picker… serious dedication to the bit 🙂

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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

I have that! Looks like yours is VG, I’d only call mine G, bit roughed at the corners…

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

I had this in my school classroom in 1987. Still kills me that I never finished Granny’s Garden on it. Priceless memories.

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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

I did this at school (all the way over in Australia) and I’m blown away that they’re trying to ban it in schools in the US. Such an important book

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

I know it’s real. In the very depth of my soul I’m sure I trust you. But… is that picture real? 🥺

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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

Sounds like a wonderful evening to me!

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

Favourite Agatha Christie? I literally just ordered mine so I could share a picture without shame 😉

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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 · 24/11/2024

Did it end up being a “big stick” job? Sounds like someone didn’t think it through when it went in…

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Alex Anderson @urbanwizardry.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I have a policy of “if I wouldn’t chat to you down the pub (where I’m pretty free with who I talk to), then I won’t talk to you here”. Anonymity isn’t going to make me *less* likely to turn my back on a bigot. Everyone has the right to their opinion, no one has the right to make me hear it 🙂

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Alex Anderson @urbanwizardry.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I didn’t stay on top of my basil this year and it got legs like a racehorse…

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Alex Anderson @urbanwizardry.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

That’s some good looking compost 🙂 I do have to add though that it’s not correct to say no CO2 is produced - by definition the mesophilic and thermophilic bacteria that generate the heat are making CO2 as a by-product of their biochemistry. Well aerated heaps do that instead of making CH4 though.

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Alex Anderson @urbanwizardry.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

One day he will probably embarrass his own children, and then he will understand 🙂

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Alex Anderson @urbanwizardry.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I had this! Or very similar. I think mine had a 5-1/4 floppy drive. 20Mb HDD, CGA graphics with advanced EGA mode only available to certain software. Played the hell out of those 4-colour games. Good times.

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Alex Anderson @urbanwizardry.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

And some overflow to the left, I spy? 📖👀

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

Dirty Beach! Really fond memories of that part of the South Bank. For a little while (and another lifetime, or so it seems) I lived in one of the houseboats up a bit near Battersea so I get surprisingly nostalgic about Thames mud 🙂

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

That’s a very fine shelfie. I see some old friends in there 📖

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

I absolutely get you. We’re not hosting anyone for Christmas this year, so we’re having a cheese-course-only Christmas dinner 🧀🎄

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

Sigh, it has one of those ladders. How I wish I could justify one of those ladders in my home…

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

It’s good to see you again, you were being missed at the other place 🌱

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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

Another lovely “books furnish a room” setup. Do you need to re-do it regularly as the balance of colour shifts from buying more books?

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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 just… wow. Like a tiny slice of Beatrix Potter or Wind in the Willows ❤️

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