Laura-Elseplace
@laura-elseplace.bsky.social
I bake and knit and sew and grow edible things and live quietly and am happily married and will believe in egalitarian freedom til my last breath.
Excellent gig by Nick Heyward in the tiny Voodoo Rooms- felt like he was playing your local :)
November 3, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Excellent gig by Nick Heyward in the tiny Voodoo Rooms- felt like he was playing your local :)
The design, and photos without and with flash.
If you know anyone who would want to finish them, I still have the basics (although the gold and silks have been used for other projects).
I enjoyed the stag- my first-ever beadwork...
If you know anyone who would want to finish them, I still have the basics (although the gold and silks have been used for other projects).
I enjoyed the stag- my first-ever beadwork...
October 31, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The design, and photos without and with flash.
If you know anyone who would want to finish them, I still have the basics (although the gold and silks have been used for other projects).
I enjoyed the stag- my first-ever beadwork...
If you know anyone who would want to finish them, I still have the basics (although the gold and silks have been used for other projects).
I enjoyed the stag- my first-ever beadwork...
We picked some late apples from the help-yourself trees behind local allotments, to take to an elderly relative who was looking forward to their own little harvest of Hames Grieves, a whole dozen- only for someone to climb into their garden and pinch every single one.
Hurrah for local allotments!
Hurrah for local allotments!
October 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
We picked some late apples from the help-yourself trees behind local allotments, to take to an elderly relative who was looking forward to their own little harvest of Hames Grieves, a whole dozen- only for someone to climb into their garden and pinch every single one.
Hurrah for local allotments!
Hurrah for local allotments!
We had the company of an elegant, reserved, still heron this morning at the quarry.
It's not a great photo, as I was swimming at the time :)
It's not a great photo, as I was swimming at the time :)
October 24, 2025 at 4:48 PM
We had the company of an elegant, reserved, still heron this morning at the quarry.
It's not a great photo, as I was swimming at the time :)
It's not a great photo, as I was swimming at the time :)
The Brindley, Runcorn - nice little ‘studio’ venue for a gig by the ever- entertaining “Pet Shop Boys: Actually”, superb tribute band :)
October 11, 2025 at 6:58 AM
The Brindley, Runcorn - nice little ‘studio’ venue for a gig by the ever- entertaining “Pet Shop Boys: Actually”, superb tribute band :)
Does anyone want, or know who might want, this 1968 publication, by the Road Research Laboratory, on transport in Gloucester, Northampton and Reading?
It just seems the kind of thing some transport policy history geek might love, and it’s otherwise going into the recycling bin…
It just seems the kind of thing some transport policy history geek might love, and it’s otherwise going into the recycling bin…
October 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Does anyone want, or know who might want, this 1968 publication, by the Road Research Laboratory, on transport in Gloucester, Northampton and Reading?
It just seems the kind of thing some transport policy history geek might love, and it’s otherwise going into the recycling bin…
It just seems the kind of thing some transport policy history geek might love, and it’s otherwise going into the recycling bin…
Walking home from the optician’s, wearing my new glasses- ideal chance to test my new distance-vision watching this buzzard soaring on thermals above the houses…
September 16, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Walking home from the optician’s, wearing my new glasses- ideal chance to test my new distance-vision watching this buzzard soaring on thermals above the houses…
I picked my first hops last week in Shropshire- they’re in an organza bag, drying, in the bedroom and wow, we’re sleeping soundly!!
September 14, 2025 at 7:23 AM
I picked my first hops last week in Shropshire- they’re in an organza bag, drying, in the bedroom and wow, we’re sleeping soundly!!
Nearly three pounds of damsons picked this morning despite the heavy rain that soaked me to the skin (naturally, it’s been sunny ever since I got home! )
I shall dry these off, and eat some, but stone and freeze others.
The yellow ones are cherry-plum that were somehow still on the bushes!
I shall dry these off, and eat some, but stone and freeze others.
The yellow ones are cherry-plum that were somehow still on the bushes!
September 11, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Nearly three pounds of damsons picked this morning despite the heavy rain that soaked me to the skin (naturally, it’s been sunny ever since I got home! )
I shall dry these off, and eat some, but stone and freeze others.
The yellow ones are cherry-plum that were somehow still on the bushes!
I shall dry these off, and eat some, but stone and freeze others.
The yellow ones are cherry-plum that were somehow still on the bushes!
Just in time for the wetter weather, I sewed a new saddle-cover, aka showercap, for my bike!
September 10, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Just in time for the wetter weather, I sewed a new saddle-cover, aka showercap, for my bike!
September and a big pot of pasta sauce… four homemade ready-meals in the freezer inc pasta, and two more portions for lovely tasty meal tonight for us :)
September 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
September and a big pot of pasta sauce… four homemade ready-meals in the freezer inc pasta, and two more portions for lovely tasty meal tonight for us :)
Sunday lie-in knitting :)
September 7, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Sunday lie-in knitting :)
It’s US govt stated policy…!!!!
September 7, 2025 at 7:42 AM
It’s US govt stated policy…!!!!
Damson jelly on its way…
September 6, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Damson jelly on its way…
Damsons very nearly ready to pick…
September 3, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Damsons very nearly ready to pick…
Season of mists…!
September 2, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Season of mists…!
A beautiful Sunday for skirt-sewing :)
August 31, 2025 at 10:52 AM
A beautiful Sunday for skirt-sewing :)
Greengages on their way to jam…
August 14, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Greengages on their way to jam…
My first post for #AdoorableThursday
A small doorway in the large brick building overlooking the carpark at the faded but interesting Visitors’ Centre at the Thames Barrier
A small doorway in the large brick building overlooking the carpark at the faded but interesting Visitors’ Centre at the Thames Barrier
August 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM
My first post for #AdoorableThursday
A small doorway in the large brick building overlooking the carpark at the faded but interesting Visitors’ Centre at the Thames Barrier
A small doorway in the large brick building overlooking the carpark at the faded but interesting Visitors’ Centre at the Thames Barrier
Spinach soup- quite astonishingly green!
August 7, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Spinach soup- quite astonishingly green!
Empire of the Sun at Greenwich, in the Old Royal Navy College grounds…
Barking mad, utterly brilliant :)
Barking mad, utterly brilliant :)
August 2, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Empire of the Sun at Greenwich, in the Old Royal Navy College grounds…
Barking mad, utterly brilliant :)
Barking mad, utterly brilliant :)
It’s certainly very tasty, and a lovely cheerful colour!
It makes really good jelly… I did make jam too, but the jelly is such a lovely colour- and the red ones make a glorious jelly too!
(Lower jars darker as they’re two deep, and the jam on the right, darker still)
It makes really good jelly… I did make jam too, but the jelly is such a lovely colour- and the red ones make a glorious jelly too!
(Lower jars darker as they’re two deep, and the jam on the right, darker still)
July 30, 2025 at 5:54 PM
It’s certainly very tasty, and a lovely cheerful colour!
It makes really good jelly… I did make jam too, but the jelly is such a lovely colour- and the red ones make a glorious jelly too!
(Lower jars darker as they’re two deep, and the jam on the right, darker still)
It makes really good jelly… I did make jam too, but the jelly is such a lovely colour- and the red ones make a glorious jelly too!
(Lower jars darker as they’re two deep, and the jam on the right, darker still)
Adjacent was a tree of red ones, not yet fully ripe, flavour basically still sour-tart although soft enough to eat and comes away from stone cleanly.
July 30, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Adjacent was a tree of red ones, not yet fully ripe, flavour basically still sour-tart although soft enough to eat and comes away from stone cleanly.
@amiesphilip.bsky.social
By chance this morning we spotted these and picked a pound and a half in a few minutes, extremely ripe! Flavour has a slight plumskin-tart aftertaste but is delicious and honeyed, a little like a very ripe greengage.
By chance this morning we spotted these and picked a pound and a half in a few minutes, extremely ripe! Flavour has a slight plumskin-tart aftertaste but is delicious and honeyed, a little like a very ripe greengage.
July 30, 2025 at 2:38 PM
@amiesphilip.bsky.social
By chance this morning we spotted these and picked a pound and a half in a few minutes, extremely ripe! Flavour has a slight plumskin-tart aftertaste but is delicious and honeyed, a little like a very ripe greengage.
By chance this morning we spotted these and picked a pound and a half in a few minutes, extremely ripe! Flavour has a slight plumskin-tart aftertaste but is delicious and honeyed, a little like a very ripe greengage.
Sometimes what one needs is Poirot and a sock to knit…
July 29, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Sometimes what one needs is Poirot and a sock to knit…