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Jen Mac
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Gardens, pond life, pub quiz and blog stuff, in Frome, Somerset, UK. Working on websites since 1999. Garden blog: doingtheplan.com Forest films: woodforthetrees.uk Nuturing love of nature: SharedEarthLearning.org
Legendary giants Gog and Magog are apocalyptic figures in the Bible, representing doom. But in British folklore they're jolly giants guarding the City of London.

They're also tiny wooden carvings that guard our tool shed and greenhouse.

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#Gardenblog #History #Myth
November 21, 2025 at 7:42 AM
This week’s selection for #SixonSaturday is all autumnal.

Rishi Sumac is about to shed his last leaf. The pansies are tougher than they look.

The garden is dying back, but there are still some burst of brightness and very optimistic looking seedlings
#GardenBlog

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November 8, 2025 at 10:14 AM
#SixonSaturday #AutumnLeaves #Dahlia #GardenBlog
Featuring Phill Oakey, the oak tree named after the ‘Don’t You Want Me’ singer and synth superstar, the red leaves of Rishi Sumac, and ongoing rambles round the greenhouse
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Gog, Oakey, dahlia, sweetpea, anemone and autumn – Six on Sat, 11 Oct 25
Rambling round the garden, with a selection of autumn flowers and some surprisingly fast sweet pea seedings.
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October 11, 2025 at 1:37 PM
In this week’s six on sat - the dahlias are as smashing as the genial host of a light entertainment darts show, the chlorophyll fades to carotenoid as the leaves go orange, and the hot lips are in full bloom.

#SixonSaturday #BloomScrolling #Flowers #Garden #Blog #dahlia #smashing
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October 4, 2025 at 9:33 AM
#SixonSaturday #GardenBlog

This week's highlights include bellflower, pirouette rose, spring bulbs, a tidyish greenhouse, a ladybird and magic conkers. Plus the old roman road under Frome Town centre.

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September 27, 2025 at 11:01 AM
More reasons that Artificial Intelligence sucks sprang to mind after an unsuccessful chat with a particularly chirpy and idiotic bot and ongoing news.

Reasons AI sucks. Stealing words, knowing nothing, discourages thinking, boils oceans, infests discourse, capitalist extraction.

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September 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Damselflies and waterlily in this weeks blog

The damselfly has a remarkably complex sex life

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#Gardenblog #SixonSaturday #Betterlatethannever #Damselfly #Waterlily #Wildlifepond
July 27, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Hiya! Here's a peacock butterfly visiting a buddliea bush. #BloomScrolling #butterfly
July 11, 2025 at 6:01 AM
#SixonSaturday Garden blogging fun times with bees and birds, and roses and a question about the flowering habits of yukka

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Six on Saturday, bees, birds, horsey, James Galway and yukka buds
A selection of garden highlights on a soggy Saturday. With bees, birds, roses, and a question about the flowering habits of yukka.
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June 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
The Frome Saxonvale town centre redevelopment will be community led. Good news for Frome and hopefully a chance to show what community led projects can achieve to revitalise town centres putting community before profit. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Frome residents win five-year battle for community-led housing project
Mayday Saxonvale scheme is given the go-ahead after an extraordinary meeting of Somerset council executive
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January 23, 2025 at 6:38 PM
🐝 a bit of good news for bees, flowers, fruit, honey and ecosystems...
Big news - finally Britain is doing what it says it is going to do, rather than going backward on harmful pesticides. For background info, this pesticide was recommended only for emergency use, but non-organic growers kept requesting "emergency use" every single year.
BREAKING NEWS - for the first time, emergency use of Cruiser SB - which contains the bee-killing neonicotinoid thiamethoxam has NOT been approved! 🐝

#SaveTheBees
January 23, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Today I learned that Cercidiphyllum japonicum is called Candyfloss tree because when the leaves turn in autumn, they smell of burnt sugar.
#thicktrunkTuesday
Thanks to @lindacdolan.bsky.social #Trees
Good morning! Today I have Tour Guide training with our wonderful tree enthusiast Jonathan at #Wisley. This is one of Wisley’s Champion trees, a Cercidiphyllum japonicum or Candyfloss tree because when the leaves turn in autumn, they smell of burnt sugar. #thicktrunkTuesday. 🌱
December 3, 2024 at 8:39 AM
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good morning treepeople and happy #thicktrunktuesday
December 3, 2024 at 6:21 AM
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"Supernatural Oak!"

Happy #ThickTrunkTuesday :-)

#Trees
#Nature
#Woodland
December 3, 2024 at 6:11 AM
For #ThickTrunkTuesday - an oak tree in the Bishops Palace Garden in Wells, England #Trees - and a film on continuous cover forestry showing at the Forestry Conference tomorrow in Westminster.
woodforthetrees.uk are films on the future for UK forests & I'm happy to have helped produce this series.
December 3, 2024 at 6:35 AM
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Starter Pack for independent bookshops some of who also run lots of local events

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December 2, 2024 at 6:56 PM
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'C' is for Chough

This delightful illustration is by #Cornwall artist, Matt Johnson. Just one of the 12 birds he's chosen for his beautiful 2025 calendar, which you may like to check out, here: mattillustration.bigcartel.com/product/2025...

#AlphabetBirds #birdart #birds #art 🪶
December 2, 2024 at 9:19 AM
On #Caturday we would let the cat out of the bag, but she quite likes it there.
November 30, 2024 at 11:39 AM
This #SixOnSaturday #GardenBlog is mostly autumnal, with some out of season primroses, a willow fedge that needs some work, little pansies flowering despite the frost, a baby oak and ferns under the disco ball. doingtheplan.com/2024/11/30/s...
November 30, 2024 at 11:29 AM
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In honor of Jimi Hendrix, who would have turned 82 today, I wrote something for PBS about his incredible sense of style. He helped define not only the sound but also the look of a countercultural movement.

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November 28, 2024 at 12:09 AM
November 27, 2024 at 5:30 AM
In #London The #V&A exhibition #FragileBeauty shows photos from the Elton John and David Furnish collection. Its a fantastic show, and
I loved seeing Miss Muppet's portrait amongst the stars where she belongs! www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/... @muppethistory.bsky.social
November 26, 2024 at 5:37 PM
#BloomScrolling
#TinyFlowerTuesday

Little pansies and daisies for the bloomscrollers.
November 26, 2024 at 5:18 PM
In a vase on Monday, hydrangea and pine, with a sedum stemfrom a few weeks back that is sprouting baby plants all over... #flowers #garden #InAVaseOnMonday #propagation #hydrangea #pine #sedum
November 25, 2024 at 7:09 PM