Jon Knight
@greenjimll.bsky.social
Not an artist, dog lover or avid reader.
Summer is officially over at my #allotment as the greenhouse tomatoes succumbed to the recent cold and have gone on the compost heap. Winter is coming... ❄️🌨️☃️
November 30, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Summer is officially over at my #allotment as the greenhouse tomatoes succumbed to the recent cold and have gone on the compost heap. Winter is coming... ❄️🌨️☃️
Looks like the good citizens of Tiddington have also been preparing for #Christmas, with their tree up on the little green near the village shops and pub.
November 30, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Looks like the good citizens of Tiddington have also been preparing for #Christmas, with their tree up on the little green near the village shops and pub.
Usually I grumble about people and shops doing #Christmas before December, but I made use of the nice weather today to put the railway Christmas banners at both the town station and Parkway out a day early. #CommunityRail #GrumpyElf
November 30, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Usually I grumble about people and shops doing #Christmas before December, but I made use of the nice weather today to put the railway Christmas banners at both the town station and Parkway out a day early. #CommunityRail #GrumpyElf
I just noticed that there's a hint of "Imperial Death Star interior lighting" about this Chiltern Railways train I'm on.
November 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I just noticed that there's a hint of "Imperial Death Star interior lighting" about this Chiltern Railways train I'm on.
Yay! @westmidrailway.bsky.social have got rid of the stupidly sized paper tickets and gone back to standard ISO card sized ones from my local station ticket machine! Excellent... No need for multiple folding to fit them in my phone case. 👍
November 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Yay! @westmidrailway.bsky.social have got rid of the stupidly sized paper tickets and gone back to standard ISO card sized ones from my local station ticket machine! Excellent... No need for multiple folding to fit them in my phone case. 👍
I had a little bit of #Christmas #pudding mix left over this morning, so I filled a little metal pudding basin and put it on top of the big one to steam for 8 hours. The big one is now resting in the larder but I can sample the little pud.
I think I've done ok based on this taste test. 👍😋
#cooking
I think I've done ok based on this taste test. 👍😋
#cooking
November 23, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I had a little bit of #Christmas #pudding mix left over this morning, so I filled a little metal pudding basin and put it on top of the big one to steam for 8 hours. The big one is now resting in the larder but I can sample the little pud.
I think I've done ok based on this taste test. 👍😋
#cooking
I think I've done ok based on this taste test. 👍😋
#cooking
The freshly baked #Christmas cake looks ok. Just needs to cool down just a bit more before going into a container for the next month.
November 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
The freshly baked #Christmas cake looks ok. Just needs to cool down just a bit more before going into a container for the next month.
It's got grated carrots, oranges, lemons, loads of various dried fruits in it... Surely #Christmas pudding must be a really healthy super food right?
Right? 🤔🤣🤣🤣
Right? 🤔🤣🤣🤣
November 23, 2025 at 10:48 AM
It's got grated carrots, oranges, lemons, loads of various dried fruits in it... Surely #Christmas pudding must be a really healthy super food right?
Right? 🤔🤣🤣🤣
Right? 🤔🤣🤣🤣
"So why did you go to your allotment today Jon?"
"I needed to water"
"But it's tipping down with rain?!"
"Not in my greenhouse it isn't..."
"I needed to water"
"But it's tipping down with rain?!"
"Not in my greenhouse it isn't..."
November 22, 2025 at 10:29 AM
"So why did you go to your allotment today Jon?"
"I needed to water"
"But it's tipping down with rain?!"
"Not in my greenhouse it isn't..."
"I needed to water"
"But it's tipping down with rain?!"
"Not in my greenhouse it isn't..."
I think we can safely say that a low of -7°C in past week has finally done for the #allotment greenhouse tomatoes. Still picked a few last ones for this evening's pizza mind. 😉🤣🍅🍕
November 22, 2025 at 10:11 AM
I think we can safely say that a low of -7°C in past week has finally done for the #allotment greenhouse tomatoes. Still picked a few last ones for this evening's pizza mind. 😉🤣🍅🍕
I don't think the late developing calendulas and nasturtiums I sowed in late Spring/early Summer just before the first heatwave have been enjoying the recent cold snap! #frost #winter #gardening
November 21, 2025 at 8:56 AM
I don't think the late developing calendulas and nasturtiums I sowed in late Spring/early Summer just before the first heatwave have been enjoying the recent cold snap! #frost #winter #gardening
Another bag of cherry tomatoes from the #allotment greenhouse. I suspect the coming cold snap my finally see them off, but I can complain: the tomato crop pays for the plot rent nearly! 🍅👍
November 16, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Another bag of cherry tomatoes from the #allotment greenhouse. I suspect the coming cold snap my finally see them off, but I can complain: the tomato crop pays for the plot rent nearly! 🍅👍
Looking down from Clopton Bridge in #StratfordUponAvon into the fast flowing and rather high River Avon, and the big pile of debris blocking one arch of the old bridge.
November 16, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Looking down from Clopton Bridge in #StratfordUponAvon into the fast flowing and rather high River Avon, and the big pile of debris blocking one arch of the old bridge.
Quite a bit of debris been brought along by the high River Avon over the last few days.
November 16, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Quite a bit of debris been brought along by the high River Avon over the last few days.
Our local Rubbish Friends litter picking session alongside the river this morning was cancelled. I can't think why... 🌧️☔😉🤣
November 16, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Our local Rubbish Friends litter picking session alongside the river this morning was cancelled. I can't think why... 🌧️☔😉🤣
One of the main roads out of town near our house is starting to flood and the rain water is now coming up out of the storm drains. Slightly concerning as we're half way up a hill! 😳🌧️ #StormClaudia
November 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
One of the main roads out of town near our house is starting to flood and the rain water is now coming up out of the storm drains. Slightly concerning as we're half way up a hill! 😳🌧️ #StormClaudia
Broad beans already starting to sprout in modules in the greenhouse. Only been in there for a couple of weeks. 👍 #Gardening #allotment
November 9, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Broad beans already starting to sprout in modules in the greenhouse. Only been in there for a couple of weeks. 👍 #Gardening #allotment
Leaf mold processing and collecting today. Firstly emptying the big wooden leaf mold bin of last year's harvest into two old green plastic bins, then many trips to the street outside the site to pick up a cubic metre of freshly fallen leaves.
#gardening #allotment #Autumn
#gardening #allotment #Autumn
November 9, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Leaf mold processing and collecting today. Firstly emptying the big wooden leaf mold bin of last year's harvest into two old green plastic bins, then many trips to the street outside the site to pick up a cubic metre of freshly fallen leaves.
#gardening #allotment #Autumn
#gardening #allotment #Autumn
Getting some wild temperature swings on the min-max thermometer in my #allotment greenhouse in the past week in mid November. Up to 32°C during the day, and then right down near freezing overnight.
Still harvesting tomatoes but for how much longer I wonder?
#Gardening #GrowYourOwn
Still harvesting tomatoes but for how much longer I wonder?
#Gardening #GrowYourOwn
November 9, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Getting some wild temperature swings on the min-max thermometer in my #allotment greenhouse in the past week in mid November. Up to 32°C during the day, and then right down near freezing overnight.
Still harvesting tomatoes but for how much longer I wonder?
#Gardening #GrowYourOwn
Still harvesting tomatoes but for how much longer I wonder?
#Gardening #GrowYourOwn
Interesting to see this on an office door near our Climate Hub in #StratfordUponAvon. Good to see a local firm encouraging reopening of disused #railway lines. #ConnectingCommunities
November 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Interesting to see this on an office door near our Climate Hub in #StratfordUponAvon. Good to see a local firm encouraging reopening of disused #railway lines. #ConnectingCommunities
Replacement trowel handle turned, sanded, oiled, cut off the lathe and refitted. That'll do.👍
And just in time, as the belt on the lathe broke just as I was parting off. 😳🤦
And just in time, as the belt on the lathe broke just as I was parting off. 😳🤦
November 5, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Replacement trowel handle turned, sanded, oiled, cut off the lathe and refitted. That'll do.👍
And just in time, as the belt on the lathe broke just as I was parting off. 😳🤦
And just in time, as the belt on the lathe broke just as I was parting off. 😳🤦
Pinched out the growing tips of the autumn sown sweet peas in the #allotment greenhouse. Min-max thermometer said it still got up to 32°C in there last week and stayed a few degrees above freezing.
November 2, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Pinched out the growing tips of the autumn sown sweet peas in the #allotment greenhouse. Min-max thermometer said it still got up to 32°C in there last week and stayed a few degrees above freezing.
Still getting some little cherry #tomatoes off the plants Monty told us to grub out a few weeks ago on #GardenersWorld. Not masses obviously at this time of year, but lot will be enough for a tomato & bean slow cooker meal.
November 2, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Still getting some little cherry #tomatoes off the plants Monty told us to grub out a few weeks ago on #GardenersWorld. Not masses obviously at this time of year, but lot will be enough for a tomato & bean slow cooker meal.
I nipped to the shops whilst walking through the town on the way to the #allotment to see if any still had Autumn sown onion sets.
No onions but I'm now back home having failed to reach the allotment because I might have accidentally spent about £30 on spring flowering bulbs in B&Q.
#gardening
No onions but I'm now back home having failed to reach the allotment because I might have accidentally spent about £30 on spring flowering bulbs in B&Q.
#gardening
November 2, 2025 at 12:31 PM
I nipped to the shops whilst walking through the town on the way to the #allotment to see if any still had Autumn sown onion sets.
No onions but I'm now back home having failed to reach the allotment because I might have accidentally spent about £30 on spring flowering bulbs in B&Q.
#gardening
No onions but I'm now back home having failed to reach the allotment because I might have accidentally spent about £30 on spring flowering bulbs in B&Q.
#gardening