@helenwalton.bsky.social
Guernsey based civil servant, horse saddle fitter, DIYer and vegetarian food lover. I don't post much, but when I do, I aim to inform and/or amuse.
It's amazing what you can see if you look 👀 here are just 4 of the many snaps I took yesterday of different fungi in bloom 🍄🟫🍄🍄🟫 #Guernsey
November 9, 2025 at 8:31 AM
It's amazing what you can see if you look 👀 here are just 4 of the many snaps I took yesterday of different fungi in bloom 🍄🟫🍄🍄🟫 #Guernsey
Went for a walk round a graveyard on my own 👻 in the moonlight 🌜 saw a bat 🦇 got soaked with rain 🌧 and now I just need to cast a spell that wards children off approaching my house for my #Halloween task list to be complete 🧙♀️
October 31, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Went for a walk round a graveyard on my own 👻 in the moonlight 🌜 saw a bat 🦇 got soaked with rain 🌧 and now I just need to cast a spell that wards children off approaching my house for my #Halloween task list to be complete 🧙♀️
October 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Good riddance to the last of the dubious electrical sockets in my house 🫡 another coat of paint later and that will be another job done 👍
September 28, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Good riddance to the last of the dubious electrical sockets in my house 🫡 another coat of paint later and that will be another job done 👍
Officially on holiday.
September 13, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Officially on holiday.
I nearly forgot, but thankfully didn't
.. lunar eclipse above Herm 🌚 It looked way better with my eyes than via photos, but I'm sure lots of people will have captured good images. A cloud has covered over now, which I'm hoping means the bad omens don't count and the crops will be fine 😆
.. lunar eclipse above Herm 🌚 It looked way better with my eyes than via photos, but I'm sure lots of people will have captured good images. A cloud has covered over now, which I'm hoping means the bad omens don't count and the crops will be fine 😆
September 7, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I nearly forgot, but thankfully didn't
.. lunar eclipse above Herm 🌚 It looked way better with my eyes than via photos, but I'm sure lots of people will have captured good images. A cloud has covered over now, which I'm hoping means the bad omens don't count and the crops will be fine 😆
.. lunar eclipse above Herm 🌚 It looked way better with my eyes than via photos, but I'm sure lots of people will have captured good images. A cloud has covered over now, which I'm hoping means the bad omens don't count and the crops will be fine 😆
Before and after (nearly 3 years after!). The hedge is still a work in progress, but the rotten soffits have been replaced, the house has been patched up and painted and the drain pipework has now all been lined and/or replaced. I am ready for you this year, winter! 🤠
August 16, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Before and after (nearly 3 years after!). The hedge is still a work in progress, but the rotten soffits have been replaced, the house has been patched up and painted and the drain pipework has now all been lined and/or replaced. I am ready for you this year, winter! 🤠
I really enjoyed the BBC series, Human 👍 So much more is known about our evolution now compared with when I was at school, thanks to archaeologists around the world, and that knowledge will only keep on growing!
August 6, 2025 at 12:20 PM
I really enjoyed the BBC series, Human 👍 So much more is known about our evolution now compared with when I was at school, thanks to archaeologists around the world, and that knowledge will only keep on growing!
Dear old outside light, it's time to say goodbye to your spot on the wall, which has been taken up by your (less flaky) replacement that has been waiting for about a year for its time to shine (in a box in my garage). A long awaited changing of the guard 😄
July 29, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Dear old outside light, it's time to say goodbye to your spot on the wall, which has been taken up by your (less flaky) replacement that has been waiting for about a year for its time to shine (in a box in my garage). A long awaited changing of the guard 😄
I'm a bit worried that if the chap doing work on my house fits much more in this tonne bag it might distort the space-time continuum! 😆 Top score in tonne bag tetris🏆
July 8, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I'm a bit worried that if the chap doing work on my house fits much more in this tonne bag it might distort the space-time continuum! 😆 Top score in tonne bag tetris🏆
The local bees don't know about #30DaysWild, but they've definately heard about my no-mow lawn - absolutely loads have come to visit now its in full flower! 🐝
June 2, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The local bees don't know about #30DaysWild, but they've definately heard about my no-mow lawn - absolutely loads have come to visit now its in full flower! 🐝
Enjoyed my short, rainy trip to Ireland 🥔 1 night in Slane, 1 in Carlingford and 2 in Dublin 🇮🇪 no leprechaun sightings, but lots of nice scenery 🍀
May 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Enjoyed my short, rainy trip to Ireland 🥔 1 night in Slane, 1 in Carlingford and 2 in Dublin 🇮🇪 no leprechaun sightings, but lots of nice scenery 🍀
Quite pleased with how my latest pallet planter has turned out 🤩 worth all the sawing effort! I just need to fill in the bits I missed painting and then work out how to line it (it's due to be an aquatic planter) 🌿
May 21, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Quite pleased with how my latest pallet planter has turned out 🤩 worth all the sawing effort! I just need to fill in the bits I missed painting and then work out how to line it (it's due to be an aquatic planter) 🌿
Je suis ches vouz... and Minnie has been giving me the "where are my usual humans and what if this one doesn't know I need treats every day?" look 🙀
May 12, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Je suis ches vouz... and Minnie has been giving me the "where are my usual humans and what if this one doesn't know I need treats every day?" look 🙀
I had a look round there yesterday afternoon (and at the finds in the museum today) - I learned that you have far more patience than I do 😅
May 11, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I had a look round there yesterday afternoon (and at the finds in the museum today) - I learned that you have far more patience than I do 😅
#NoMowMay posts have reminded me to provide an update on my no mow (ever) lawn. It's looking lush and starting to flower ☘️ The clover has pushed out some of the thyme but the chamomile is holding its ground 👍 I have to keep pulling out grass 👎 (also, I need some sort of "hedge in progress" sign 😅)
May 6, 2025 at 6:08 PM
#NoMowMay posts have reminded me to provide an update on my no mow (ever) lawn. It's looking lush and starting to flower ☘️ The clover has pushed out some of the thyme but the chamomile is holding its ground 👍 I have to keep pulling out grass 👎 (also, I need some sort of "hedge in progress" sign 😅)
Doing my bit to slow the spread of invasive species... by eating some! 🍽 Had some fresh stems and dried some leaves and mixed them with salt. Inspired by the course I've just done with TGI... it was a course about the environment, not food 😄 college.tgi.ac.gg/wp/festival-...
April 1, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Doing my bit to slow the spread of invasive species... by eating some! 🍽 Had some fresh stems and dried some leaves and mixed them with salt. Inspired by the course I've just done with TGI... it was a course about the environment, not food 😄 college.tgi.ac.gg/wp/festival-...
Here's one for #BlossomWatch @nationaltrust.bsky.social
March 30, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Here's one for #BlossomWatch @nationaltrust.bsky.social
Happy spring equinox 🤩 Today I learned that not all things that look like stinking onions are stinking onions, see: Naples garlic (left) and three-cornered garlic (right). Who knew? Not me... until now! I did know that stinking onions aren't wild garlic tho... and also aren't onions either 😅
March 20, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Happy spring equinox 🤩 Today I learned that not all things that look like stinking onions are stinking onions, see: Naples garlic (left) and three-cornered garlic (right). Who knew? Not me... until now! I did know that stinking onions aren't wild garlic tho... and also aren't onions either 😅
Mine have been going for a few weeks (in Guernsey, Channel Islands), but there are new ones popping open each day 🤩
March 1, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Mine have been going for a few weeks (in Guernsey, Channel Islands), but there are new ones popping open each day 🤩
Reminder, apparently the general footwear buying public need reminders like this 😐
February 11, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Reminder, apparently the general footwear buying public need reminders like this 😐
I did all my housework and repair jobs and started watching once rain cleared... I learned that a female black cap has a brown/red cap and doesn't like the food I put out. Apart from that, it was just the regular visitors: 2 pigeons, bluetits, greatits and sparrows plus 1 magpie and 1 robin.
January 26, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I did all my housework and repair jobs and started watching once rain cleared... I learned that a female black cap has a brown/red cap and doesn't like the food I put out. Apart from that, it was just the regular visitors: 2 pigeons, bluetits, greatits and sparrows plus 1 magpie and 1 robin.
Went for a walk round the Secret Fairy Villiage today (it's on Google map). No signs of activity, but it's quite cold, so maybe everyone is staying inside 😆
January 19, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Went for a walk round the Secret Fairy Villiage today (it's on Google map). No signs of activity, but it's quite cold, so maybe everyone is staying inside 😆
Today is the day to start the Christmas cake 🤩 it seems I lost patience with the gold sprinkles when I was decorating it a few weeks ago, but apart from that did a pretty neat job 😅
January 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Today is the day to start the Christmas cake 🤩 it seems I lost patience with the gold sprinkles when I was decorating it a few weeks ago, but apart from that did a pretty neat job 😅