Em Splem
@emsplem.bsky.social
I like some stuff (art, poetry, history, philosophy, dogs, rhinos)
I dislike some stuff (fascists and their enablers, mosquitoes, slugs)
I do some things (gardening, walking, cycling, nursing)
I don’t do others (drive, eat meat, walk my reactive dog)
I dislike some stuff (fascists and their enablers, mosquitoes, slugs)
I do some things (gardening, walking, cycling, nursing)
I don’t do others (drive, eat meat, walk my reactive dog)
Ever since I got this succulent, it’s been threatening to die and now suddenly has decided to flower! Sitting outside in that blistering summer seems to have done the job.
December 1, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Ever since I got this succulent, it’s been threatening to die and now suddenly has decided to flower! Sitting outside in that blistering summer seems to have done the job.
It’s December and yet there are still flowers to be had.
December 1, 2025 at 7:56 PM
It’s December and yet there are still flowers to be had.
Happy St Andrew’s Day.
Now eat your “Porridge and other things”.
Now eat your “Porridge and other things”.
November 30, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Happy St Andrew’s Day.
Now eat your “Porridge and other things”.
Now eat your “Porridge and other things”.
Birthday dog is getting steak tonight.
November 5, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Birthday dog is getting steak tonight.
The ‘Spring bulbs’ that I planted last month have already started flowering.
November 5, 2025 at 12:44 PM
The ‘Spring bulbs’ that I planted last month have already started flowering.
And yet over 1,000 people felt the need to use words about it.
October 21, 2025 at 12:04 PM
And yet over 1,000 people felt the need to use words about it.
Pictures of what the rain brings: slugs and mushrooms.
September 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Pictures of what the rain brings: slugs and mushrooms.
Just finished ‘Ashes to Admin’ by @christinamartin.bsky.social which I thoroughly enjoyed. I mean, I used to work in employment and am unbearably nosy about other people’s jobs and I work with a lot of end of life care, so of course it’d appeal to me, but I’d recommend it to other people too.
September 4, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Just finished ‘Ashes to Admin’ by @christinamartin.bsky.social which I thoroughly enjoyed. I mean, I used to work in employment and am unbearably nosy about other people’s jobs and I work with a lot of end of life care, so of course it’d appeal to me, but I’d recommend it to other people too.
It’s fair to say that the dog is not impressed with my washing decisions.
August 22, 2025 at 4:40 PM
It’s fair to say that the dog is not impressed with my washing decisions.
A lovely morning, the seagulls and ducks and oystercatchers in full voice down at the river, and coming home to the sunflowers reaching up to the early sun. And then this: a wasp eating its breakfast pear.
August 14, 2025 at 9:05 AM
A lovely morning, the seagulls and ducks and oystercatchers in full voice down at the river, and coming home to the sunflowers reaching up to the early sun. And then this: a wasp eating its breakfast pear.
I presume this is what they call whole foods.
August 1, 2025 at 7:58 AM
I presume this is what they call whole foods.
I don’t like cricket,….I love it.
July 3, 2025 at 11:25 AM
I don’t like cricket,….I love it.
Everyone else is showing roses and peonies and mine are far from flowering yet. Instead I am loving the mock orange which has bloomed for the first time this year, despite an aphid infestation, alongside the forget-me-nots.
May 18, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Everyone else is showing roses and peonies and mine are far from flowering yet. Instead I am loving the mock orange which has bloomed for the first time this year, despite an aphid infestation, alongside the forget-me-nots.
Mayday! Mayday! We have a pastry breach!
May 1, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Mayday! Mayday! We have a pastry breach!
Cherry blossom. Guaranteed to delight the heart.
April 4, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Cherry blossom. Guaranteed to delight the heart.
Look what I dug up from the garden this week! It was about 2 spades deep but in remarkably good nick, considering. I wonder who the kid was who left it long enough for it to gradually disappear from sight?
April 4, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Look what I dug up from the garden this week! It was about 2 spades deep but in remarkably good nick, considering. I wonder who the kid was who left it long enough for it to gradually disappear from sight?
I ask you, how is a person supposed to seize the day when they’ve already been seized?
March 13, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I ask you, how is a person supposed to seize the day when they’ve already been seized?
The first daffodil of the year has come out.
February 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
The first daffodil of the year has come out.
Such a mighty harvest! Well worth the time and energy. That will keep the beast from the door until Spring.
February 15, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Such a mighty harvest! Well worth the time and energy. That will keep the beast from the door until Spring.