Googling 'red and black dress code' for our choir's Christmas concert 😳
We are mostly 'women of a certain age'

It's that time of year again, and no, we don't use a noisy, energy-devouring leaf blower! With a big garden it's a proper work out, I can tell you. Who needs a gym membership? 🤣

Good morning from Jilly, one of my favourite backyard hens. she has lots of character, is bold and curious and follows me about everywhere, but she won't let me pet her 😢 All our hens have different personalities

I must get my Christmas Cactus a calendar

Oh dear, it's Stir-up Sunday* and I'm not sure I can really be bothered this year. Is Jill in #TheArchers doing it or will Ruth just buy a Finest No. 1 Taste the Difference pudding?
* For non-UK folk: Stir-up Sunday is a tradition of making the Christmas pudding on the last Sunday before Advent

One of the most shocking and heartbreaking books I have ever read. A 2009 nonfiction book by LA Times journalist Barbara Demick, based on interviews with North Korean refugees from the city of Chongjin who had escaped North Korea. I wonder if anything has changed much?
#BookSky #NonFiction

Oh, Nigel, I've found you! Now I can start to feel at home 🤗 Time to dig out 'The Christmas Chronicles' again: Notes, stories and 100 essential recipes for midwinter. It's such a pleasure to snuggle down with this wonderful book while the storm rages outside
@nigelslater.bsky.social

Bit of a job squeezing past this big old vintage London bus on a country road in Shere yesterday. Shere in Surrey is where the film 'The Holiday' was set (or at least, where they built the fake cottage) although the actual village scenes were filmed in Godalming. The artificial snow got everywhere🤣

Zoe is basically my guide, but I don't subscribe to the Zoe programme due to cost. I avoid UPFs & mostly cook at home. Lots of vegetables, beans, pulses, some eggs & dairy. No added sugar / refined carbs. Done this for a couple of years & have lost weight, lowered my BP and reversed pre-diabetes!

Small dog with very large toadstool - amanita muscaria. Honestly, it was about a foot across!

He looks lovely 😍
This is Lexie who likes to snuggle down in the compost heap!

My first post: The boardwalk at Thursley Common Nature Reserve, Surrey UK. Voted by the Ramblers' Association as Britain's favourite walk. I love it too.