Jill
@gingerjill.bsky.social
Recovering people-pleaser, hoping for benevolent government. Far too optimistic. Gardening and painting allows me to find the strength to follow the politics 🇬🇧🇨🇦
As it’s International Men’s Day, May I recommend The Father by John Niven @nivenj1.bsky.social. Hard slab of satire and social commentary with a soft layer underneath. ( I’m also thinking about chocolate).
November 19, 2025 at 12:58 PM
As it’s International Men’s Day, May I recommend The Father by John Niven @nivenj1.bsky.social. Hard slab of satire and social commentary with a soft layer underneath. ( I’m also thinking about chocolate).
I have had the winter blues this week, so I threw for paint down while the sun shone and now I feel better.
November 16, 2025 at 12:48 PM
I have had the winter blues this week, so I threw for paint down while the sun shone and now I feel better.
Yesterday’s walk around Hulne Park, Alnwick. T shirt weather. Choc full of pheasants waiting to be shot by rich people. At least they took a day off.
November 7, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Yesterday’s walk around Hulne Park, Alnwick. T shirt weather. Choc full of pheasants waiting to be shot by rich people. At least they took a day off.
🌱 Happy November from Northumberland
November 1, 2025 at 9:31 AM
🌱 Happy November from Northumberland
Sunny autumn days are the best. The Alnwick Garden looking stunning today.
October 30, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Sunny autumn days are the best. The Alnwick Garden looking stunning today.
🌱 A tree surgeon spent hours on my favourite tree, The Copper Beech near my house. I was anxious while I waited, but I think they've done a good job. And the people who live behind it will get some daylight.
October 22, 2025 at 9:14 AM
🌱 A tree surgeon spent hours on my favourite tree, The Copper Beech near my house. I was anxious while I waited, but I think they've done a good job. And the people who live behind it will get some daylight.
🌱 unexpected late blooms. #MacroMonday
October 13, 2025 at 8:58 AM
🌱 unexpected late blooms. #MacroMonday
🌱Little October posy from my pruning activity this morning.
October 12, 2025 at 11:44 AM
🌱Little October posy from my pruning activity this morning.
🌱 well today I was going to start chopping down and dividing clumps. Looks like we will be delaying that until the first frost. Pretty good for Northumberland.
September 29, 2025 at 9:30 AM
🌱 well today I was going to start chopping down and dividing clumps. Looks like we will be delaying that until the first frost. Pretty good for Northumberland.
🌱 Here is another photo of the lovely Copper Beech, before it starts to lose its leaves.
September 2, 2025 at 2:28 PM
🌱 Here is another photo of the lovely Copper Beech, before it starts to lose its leaves.
I think I'm finally getting the hang of Acrylics.
August 31, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I think I'm finally getting the hang of Acrylics.
🌱My little rainy English garden.
July 27, 2025 at 8:22 AM
🌱My little rainy English garden.
My visiting Canadian relatives left a thank you card (well of course). We showed them Northumberland. The 14 year old mostly hid in her hoodie and didn’t say much. This is what she wrote. I’m really chuffed.😎
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July 26, 2025 at 11:20 AM
My visiting Canadian relatives left a thank you card (well of course). We showed them Northumberland. The 14 year old mostly hid in her hoodie and didn’t say much. This is what she wrote. I’m really chuffed.😎
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🌱 Um...Rudbeckias have come on since last September 🤭
July 23, 2025 at 6:38 PM
🌱 Um...Rudbeckias have come on since last September 🤭
This is a loose watercolour sketch ı completed a year ago when ı was recovering from a serious illness. I thought it was rubbish at the time. Now I'm OK with it. Funny how your health and energy levels can skew your judgement.
July 14, 2025 at 6:56 PM
This is a loose watercolour sketch ı completed a year ago when ı was recovering from a serious illness. I thought it was rubbish at the time. Now I'm OK with it. Funny how your health and energy levels can skew your judgement.
🌱 First Sweetpea in my new garden. Happy dance!
July 9, 2025 at 8:55 AM
🌱 First Sweetpea in my new garden. Happy dance!
🌱 This morning ı am sipping coffee while looking out at my new garden, and the cat asleep in his cabana. I dont feel smug. I feel grateful, and ı wish everyone could have such moments of peace and joy.
July 1, 2025 at 10:16 AM
🌱 This morning ı am sipping coffee while looking out at my new garden, and the cat asleep in his cabana. I dont feel smug. I feel grateful, and ı wish everyone could have such moments of peace and joy.
🌱 OK, it's a small container, but these are the first flowers that I've brought in from this new garden, and I'm pretty chuffed.
June 16, 2025 at 6:04 PM
🌱 OK, it's a small container, but these are the first flowers that I've brought in from this new garden, and I'm pretty chuffed.
🌱30 years ago I chose this resort on Crete for its gardens and lush grass for my baby to crawl through. I wondered why it was so long and full of weeds. Now I see the clover and butterflies and understand.
June 11, 2025 at 9:21 AM
🌱30 years ago I chose this resort on Crete for its gardens and lush grass for my baby to crawl through. I wondered why it was so long and full of weeds. Now I see the clover and butterflies and understand.
🌱Perrenial Wallflowers that were being turfed out by a neighbour in April. I rescued them and cut them down by half. I'm now being rewarded with a second flush. Feel like a proper gardener now.
June 6, 2025 at 8:36 AM
🌱Perrenial Wallflowers that were being turfed out by a neighbour in April. I rescued them and cut them down by half. I'm now being rewarded with a second flush. Feel like a proper gardener now.
Good morning. My journey into the use of acrylics continues. This is a little study on canvass. I actually had fun doing it, so that in itself is progress. #Acrylics
June 4, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Good morning. My journey into the use of acrylics continues. This is a little study on canvass. I actually had fun doing it, so that in itself is progress. #Acrylics
🌱 One lovely peony bloom. I had a false start with a bare root plant that never surfaced. This one seems happy enough. I look forward to something bushier next year.
June 3, 2025 at 9:04 AM
🌱 One lovely peony bloom. I had a false start with a bare root plant that never surfaced. This one seems happy enough. I look forward to something bushier next year.