Jo Stafford
@legless2007.bsky.social
Butterflies, bats, birds, F1, F2, F3. It's all about the wings. The Archers, Allotment grower, street art fan, Peregrina. Widowed, sadness likely. She/her.
In summer I keep my neighbours in home grown heirloom tomatoes and in autumn I am rich in apples and foraged walnuts, mushrooms and quinces that they give me. I feel so fortunate.
October 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
In summer I keep my neighbours in home grown heirloom tomatoes and in autumn I am rich in apples and foraged walnuts, mushrooms and quinces that they give me. I feel so fortunate.
It’s my 6 year allotmentversary. On this day I sent Andrew this photo (he was in A&E after a motorbike accident) and told him this was totally fine! It’s not as lush today as usual, the drought has been hard, but it’s better, and I did it all myself (he died the following January). #allotment #widow
August 23, 2025 at 5:14 PM
It’s my 6 year allotmentversary. On this day I sent Andrew this photo (he was in A&E after a motorbike accident) and told him this was totally fine! It’s not as lush today as usual, the drought has been hard, but it’s better, and I did it all myself (he died the following January). #allotment #widow
It took me 2.5 hours to sort out the chaos of 40 tomato plants in my tiny yard this morning. It turns out they do quite well if you abandon them for 2 weeks with auto irrigation. Rewarded with the first ripe Artisan Golden Bumblebee. #tomato
August 10, 2025 at 6:18 PM
It took me 2.5 hours to sort out the chaos of 40 tomato plants in my tiny yard this morning. It turns out they do quite well if you abandon them for 2 weeks with auto irrigation. Rewarded with the first ripe Artisan Golden Bumblebee. #tomato
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Got this really cool, ghostly picture by accident the other day in Dillon Beach, CA. It is a Heermann's gull with both it's shadow and reflection.
#birds
#birds
August 8, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Got this really cool, ghostly picture by accident the other day in Dillon Beach, CA. It is a Heermann's gull with both it's shadow and reflection.
#birds
#birds
Home from a lovely European adventure mostly by train to the Hungarian Grand Prix via Paris and Vienna. Now I can settle down and watch the race. It’s fair to say you go to F1 to see it, feel it and smell the burning rubber, but the race can be hard to follow. #F1
August 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Home from a lovely European adventure mostly by train to the Hungarian Grand Prix via Paris and Vienna. Now I can settle down and watch the race. It’s fair to say you go to F1 to see it, feel it and smell the burning rubber, but the race can be hard to follow. #F1
You know you spend too much time in Spain when you're refreshing your languages to try and be polite in upcoming holiday and you think "what's French for por favor?". There will definitely be Spanish, my default foreign, accidentally slipping in with attempted French, German and Hungarian.
July 19, 2025 at 2:47 PM
You know you spend too much time in Spain when you're refreshing your languages to try and be polite in upcoming holiday and you think "what's French for por favor?". There will definitely be Spanish, my default foreign, accidentally slipping in with attempted French, German and Hungarian.
Post work door-to-door courgette distribution to the neighbours successfully completed, it's still early enough in the season that they answer the door to me when I'm trying to get rid of excess produce.
July 9, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Post work door-to-door courgette distribution to the neighbours successfully completed, it's still early enough in the season that they answer the door to me when I'm trying to get rid of excess produce.
Pitched my tent in a field at Silverstone, lounging under a tree and there’s a bunch of some kind of Hairstreak butterflies at the top of the ash tree in mature hedgerow above my head. I don’t have my binoculars. This is a tragedy. People are looking at me funny, wondering why I’m staring at a tree.
July 1, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Pitched my tent in a field at Silverstone, lounging under a tree and there’s a bunch of some kind of Hairstreak butterflies at the top of the ash tree in mature hedgerow above my head. I don’t have my binoculars. This is a tragedy. People are looking at me funny, wondering why I’m staring at a tree.
We have lift off from the garden ant nests and the hundreds at gulls in the sky above are having a great day #FlyingAnts
June 29, 2025 at 11:52 AM
We have lift off from the garden ant nests and the hundreds at gulls in the sky above are having a great day #FlyingAnts
Colleague "you eat a lot of salad". Wait until she sees how much courgette I find myself eating #allotment #growyourown
June 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Colleague "you eat a lot of salad". Wait until she sees how much courgette I find myself eating #allotment #growyourown
First allotment (school night) beer of the year, while I contemplate the consequences of none of my courgette plants getting eaten by slugs for the first time ever and now having approximately 6 times as many as a person needs. #allotment
June 24, 2025 at 8:22 PM
First allotment (school night) beer of the year, while I contemplate the consequences of none of my courgette plants getting eaten by slugs for the first time ever and now having approximately 6 times as many as a person needs. #allotment
Isn’t she lovely? A Painted Lady in my little yard just now, sunning herself out of the wind. #butterflies
June 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Isn’t she lovely? A Painted Lady in my little yard just now, sunning herself out of the wind. #butterflies
Why wouldn’t a ceasefire start at the same time for both parties in a conflict? Is that normal?
June 24, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Why wouldn’t a ceasefire start at the same time for both parties in a conflict? Is that normal?
I’ve had outstanding care from my local pharmacist today. medication, advice, what to look out for and told to go back tomorrow for antibiotics if it gets worse, but the insect that bit me and caused my entire (no exaggeration) forearm to swell can do one. Even air hurts.
June 22, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I’ve had outstanding care from my local pharmacist today. medication, advice, what to look out for and told to go back tomorrow for antibiotics if it gets worse, but the insect that bit me and caused my entire (no exaggeration) forearm to swell can do one. Even air hurts.
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“Si la vida te da limones, haz limonada”
Los limones que me da la vida:
Los limones que me da la vida:
June 20, 2025 at 5:44 PM
“Si la vida te da limones, haz limonada”
Los limones que me da la vida:
Los limones que me da la vida:
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Good job the “no more foreign wars” guy won the election.
June 17, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Good job the “no more foreign wars” guy won the election.
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You’ll be too young to remember, but there was a time when you could wake up as many as three mornings in a row and not find the world had lost its fucking mind.
June 13, 2025 at 6:48 AM
You’ll be too young to remember, but there was a time when you could wake up as many as three mornings in a row and not find the world had lost its fucking mind.
Every mention of the new F1 film makes me cringe as I remember (correctly) refusing someone access to the paddock and pits at Silverstone and not realising that it was (an amused) Brad Pitt until I watched the race back days later.
June 12, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Every mention of the new F1 film makes me cringe as I remember (correctly) refusing someone access to the paddock and pits at Silverstone and not realising that it was (an amused) Brad Pitt until I watched the race back days later.
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In hindsight planting out 100 baby veg after work was ambitious but I did it, and the wildflower planting in the park looked glorious in the evening light when I came home. The allotment is now pretty full, let’s hope the slugs leave some plants alone this year!
June 2, 2025 at 7:04 PM
In hindsight planting out 100 baby veg after work was ambitious but I did it, and the wildflower planting in the park looked glorious in the evening light when I came home. The allotment is now pretty full, let’s hope the slugs leave some plants alone this year!
Cracking weekend working at the #MotoGP at Silverstone, the fans and teams were without exception lovely and while its a new sport to me and I didn’t know any of the riders or teams at the start of the weekend, I learnt a lot from the fans and it was really fun to watch. I think I’m a fan.
May 25, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Cracking weekend working at the #MotoGP at Silverstone, the fans and teams were without exception lovely and while its a new sport to me and I didn’t know any of the riders or teams at the start of the weekend, I learnt a lot from the fans and it was really fun to watch. I think I’m a fan.