Alex Anderson
@urbanwizardry.bsky.social
Software and cloud infrastructure engineer by (week)day, gardener and book lover every other time.
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need” - Cicero 📖
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need” - Cicero 📖
Form following function... Shallots hanging on twisted ropes of their own leaves. Thought I’d try it this year instead of braiding and I couldn’t be happier with how it turned out. #gardening #gardeningsky #growyourown #gyo
July 13, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Form following function... Shallots hanging on twisted ropes of their own leaves. Thought I’d try it this year instead of braiding and I couldn’t be happier with how it turned out. #gardening #gardeningsky #growyourown #gyo
My first border tulips of the year have got their party clothes on 🌷
March 30, 2025 at 6:45 PM
My first border tulips of the year have got their party clothes on 🌷
It’s early sowing time! Kinda crowded in the greenhouse with all the over-wintering stuff still here too, but I’ll find room somewhere! #gardening #gardeningsky #growyourown
January 25, 2025 at 12:32 PM
It’s early sowing time! Kinda crowded in the greenhouse with all the over-wintering stuff still here too, but I’ll find room somewhere! #gardening #gardeningsky #growyourown
Icy night tonight, so don’t mind if we do
January 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Icy night tonight, so don’t mind if we do
Ivy and a touch of frost today.
January 11, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Ivy and a touch of frost today.
My greenhouse pepper plants are finally going into overwintering mode (or done-for mode, we’ll see how they go this year) so everything got picked, ready or not. Mostly ‘De Cayenne’ that were left, with a few plucky sweet peppers thrown in. #GardeningSky #Gardening
December 22, 2024 at 10:53 AM
My greenhouse pepper plants are finally going into overwintering mode (or done-for mode, we’ll see how they go this year) so everything got picked, ready or not. Mostly ‘De Cayenne’ that were left, with a few plucky sweet peppers thrown in. #GardeningSky #Gardening
The shortest day of the year has dawned - where I am, anyway. I’m looking forward to another go-round and all the comings and goings of the plants and creatures that entails, but I am especially happy at this time of for the returning sun and the longer days to come.
Happy Winter Solstice to all in the northern hemisphere.
The turn of the year's tide, a pivot-point, a day of hope—when the dark stops rising & after which the Sun begins its slow climb back.
A day I celebrate more than Christmas or New Year.
Fiat lux!
📷 by @annieworsley.bsky.social
The turn of the year's tide, a pivot-point, a day of hope—when the dark stops rising & after which the Sun begins its slow climb back.
A day I celebrate more than Christmas or New Year.
Fiat lux!
📷 by @annieworsley.bsky.social
December 21, 2024 at 8:17 AM
The shortest day of the year has dawned - where I am, anyway. I’m looking forward to another go-round and all the comings and goings of the plants and creatures that entails, but I am especially happy at this time of for the returning sun and the longer days to come.
It’s Christmas season in the garden! #garden #gardening
December 1, 2024 at 4:55 PM
It’s Christmas season in the garden! #garden #gardening
The temperature’s been all over the place and most things that need a bit of cover are in their winter digs. Like this Alstroemeria “Indian Summer” - one of the most popular varieties for good reason - which is loving the extended season it gets.
November 30, 2024 at 8:03 AM
The temperature’s been all over the place and most things that need a bit of cover are in their winter digs. Like this Alstroemeria “Indian Summer” - one of the most popular varieties for good reason - which is loving the extended season it gets.
Since we’re loving Wicked right now, here are my two copies… one’s a hardback First, and one’s a post-West End show tie-in paperback, but the paperback is signed, so I’m honour bound to keep both. It’s hard work, giving up those two extra inches of bookshelf for book nerd reasons…
November 26, 2024 at 1:52 PM
Since we’re loving Wicked right now, here are my two copies… one’s a hardback First, and one’s a post-West End show tie-in paperback, but the paperback is signed, so I’m honour bound to keep both. It’s hard work, giving up those two extra inches of bookshelf for book nerd reasons…
We’ve been away on a city break, so I’m seeing my garden in the light for the first time since the middle of last week. This was unexpected. #gardening
November 26, 2024 at 8:34 AM
We’ve been away on a city break, so I’m seeing my garden in the light for the first time since the middle of last week. This was unexpected. #gardening
There’s debate over what “real reading” is? Pictured here are facsimile copies from the First Folio of Shakespeare. Written to be spoken yet people have bought them to read for pleasure for four hundred years. So it goes both ways. What matters is that you love the words. The arguments are nonsense.
November 25, 2024 at 8:20 PM
There’s debate over what “real reading” is? Pictured here are facsimile copies from the First Folio of Shakespeare. Written to be spoken yet people have bought them to read for pleasure for four hundred years. So it goes both ways. What matters is that you love the words. The arguments are nonsense.
I call these two my Shelves of Outstanding Britishness 📖🎩 #BookSky #AgathaChristie
November 25, 2024 at 7:02 PM
I call these two my Shelves of Outstanding Britishness 📖🎩 #BookSky #AgathaChristie
First night of actual freezing in Cambridgeshire. Still no snow, just a light dusting of frost and my bins are frozen shut. Magical. If it’s cold where you are, I hope yours is more fun 🙂
November 20, 2024 at 7:49 AM
First night of actual freezing in Cambridgeshire. Still no snow, just a light dusting of frost and my bins are frozen shut. Magical. If it’s cold where you are, I hope yours is more fun 🙂
I was just sent this picture from Kings Cross, and more importantly St Pancras, in the snow. I’m enjoying the pictures of the UK snow today; unfortunately South Cambridgeshire is just one big rain puddle.
Snowflakes to the left of me Blankets to the right
Here I am, stuck in the middle with you.
Snowflakes to the left of me Blankets to the right
Here I am, stuck in the middle with you.
November 19, 2024 at 8:21 AM
I was just sent this picture from Kings Cross, and more importantly St Pancras, in the snow. I’m enjoying the pictures of the UK snow today; unfortunately South Cambridgeshire is just one big rain puddle.
Snowflakes to the left of me Blankets to the right
Here I am, stuck in the middle with you.
Snowflakes to the left of me Blankets to the right
Here I am, stuck in the middle with you.
Another great example of books furnishing a room from someone to whom colour is a vital part of how they experience and engage with the world. I love to see how people make their books part of their lives and homes, and all this #bookshelf posting is showing me more than I could have ever imagined
November 19, 2024 at 7:09 AM
Another great example of books furnishing a room from someone to whom colour is a vital part of how they experience and engage with the world. I love to see how people make their books part of their lives and homes, and all this #bookshelf posting is showing me more than I could have ever imagined
Now here’s a different approach to shelving books… not sure it would work with my oddball collection of book sizes, but you can’t deny it’s proving that “books furnish a room”. I also know some people that would gasp I horror 🙂 would you stack yours like this?
It is rather astonishing how quickly my followers are increasing here. Thank you so much, everyone! I'm here for all the bookish stuff!
Apart from being an author, I'm an avid reader too. This is my little library at home 🥰. Do you like it?
Follow me on Instagram too @awaiskhanauthor
Apart from being an author, I'm an avid reader too. This is my little library at home 🥰. Do you like it?
Follow me on Instagram too @awaiskhanauthor
November 19, 2024 at 6:53 AM
Now here’s a different approach to shelving books… not sure it would work with my oddball collection of book sizes, but you can’t deny it’s proving that “books furnish a room”. I also know some people that would gasp I horror 🙂 would you stack yours like this?
Reposted by Alex Anderson
It is rather astonishing how quickly my followers are increasing here. Thank you so much, everyone! I'm here for all the bookish stuff!
Apart from being an author, I'm an avid reader too. This is my little library at home 🥰. Do you like it?
Follow me on Instagram too @awaiskhanauthor
Apart from being an author, I'm an avid reader too. This is my little library at home 🥰. Do you like it?
Follow me on Instagram too @awaiskhanauthor
November 18, 2024 at 10:41 AM
It is rather astonishing how quickly my followers are increasing here. Thank you so much, everyone! I'm here for all the bookish stuff!
Apart from being an author, I'm an avid reader too. This is my little library at home 🥰. Do you like it?
Follow me on Instagram too @awaiskhanauthor
Apart from being an author, I'm an avid reader too. This is my little library at home 🥰. Do you like it?
Follow me on Instagram too @awaiskhanauthor
This is one of the favourite books that I own, “A Vade Mecum for Malt-Worms”. A vade mecum is a handbook, and a malt-worm is a beer lover. Printed in 1860, it’s a reprint of pamphlets originally printed and sold at The Crown in Paternoster Row in London around 1720. Probably the original pub guide 🍺
November 18, 2024 at 8:48 AM
This is one of the favourite books that I own, “A Vade Mecum for Malt-Worms”. A vade mecum is a handbook, and a malt-worm is a beer lover. Printed in 1860, it’s a reprint of pamphlets originally printed and sold at The Crown in Paternoster Row in London around 1720. Probably the original pub guide 🍺
I put it in a reply yesterday, but since there’s so much book love on BlueSky at the moment I’ll “proper” post it again… one of my happy places, and a sanctuary in a crazy world. A lifelong dream come true.
November 17, 2024 at 8:12 AM
I put it in a reply yesterday, but since there’s so much book love on BlueSky at the moment I’ll “proper” post it again… one of my happy places, and a sanctuary in a crazy world. A lifelong dream come true.
I didn’t post it anywhere at the time, but I did remember to snap a photo (before it went in G&Ts): my very last cucumber of the year (“Carmen”), picked on Tuesday. Mid-November, who’d have thought it.
November 17, 2024 at 7:38 AM
I didn’t post it anywhere at the time, but I did remember to snap a photo (before it went in G&Ts): my very last cucumber of the year (“Carmen”), picked on Tuesday. Mid-November, who’d have thought it.