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Vicky Booker
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Writer, reader, walker, lover of nature and all things Ancient and Greek. May contain gin.
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Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness
Steve Pemberton and Reece Sheersmith, creators of Inside Number 9. Both wearing smart black suits and white shirts, sitting on some steps in front of a red curtain.
October 20, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Today I got down my 1986 copy of Rider, in honour of Jilly. I was far too young to be given the hardback from the library by my mother 😳 but I couldn't wait to get my own copy.
I normally keep my books pristine, no broken spine. But this one has been so well read and loved, and it shows it.
Front cover of Jilly Cooper's book Riders. The picture is of a lady's bottom, she is wearing skin tight white jodhpurs and a man's hand is cupping her right buttock. She is also holding a riding whip held loosely across the back of her legs. Picture showing the spine of Jilly Cooper's book Riders with the famous picture of a man's hand on a lady's Jodhpur clad bottom. The book spin is creased and curved showing it has been read many times, the top pages are brown with age and crinkled from much use - a bit like this reader.
October 7, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy. Not a selfie.
Slightly fluffy ginger and white cat curled up in a perfect circle, her paw over her nose and eyes, clearly saying "you can't see me, I'm not here" or basically "world, please ignore me".
September 21, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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It did!!!
So this was my second one.
I'm hoping to make a cinnamon one next.
Golden brown focaccia with green and black olives and rosemary stuffed into the top
September 13, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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I'd never made bread in my life but your posts convinced me to get the book and try.
Slices of focaccia showing garlic all through the dough A focaccia loaf, dimpled white and brown with garlic and sea salt on its crust, resting on a wire tray
September 13, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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I missed yesterday's post as I was late coming down a mountain. Here's a rare picture from me of a clematis with its petals still on.
White clematis Montana, 6 long petals around bright yellow stamen, some of which are long and others still tightly curled at,the heart of the flower
May 29, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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The remains of this clematis flower are almost prettier than when it had petals.
Tangled white filaments around a bright green central seed head.
May 27, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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And yellow nettles for today.
Green nettle leaves, but the flowers are bright yellow, three pointed stripey buds facing down, lighter yellow petals like caps over them.
May 26, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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And here's a double headed aquileia in my favourite shade for yesterday.
Drooping purple flowers with richly crumpled vertical petals, and a second row of horizontal petals, all densely packed together.
May 26, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Oops, I missed a couple of days of daily nature posts. I've never seen an aquilegia in this ghostly blue-white shade before.
Hanging flowers that open into bell shapes with outer wing-like petals, a delicate mauve-white shade. Long dangling stamen where the bell clappers would be, dusted in brown pollen.
May 26, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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I don't remember this flower with petals, but as a seed head it's stunning.
Head of a petal-less flower, just red spikes left with crooked green tips where pollen once sat. A few green leaves remain and the whole looks like a diagram for a virus.
May 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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I've never seen this plant before, sort of tall climbing primroses stacked on top of each other.
Lots of creamy yellow flowers in a vertical stack, deep golden centres to the flowers, with spiky green leaves
May 22, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Stunning spiky blue plant in a garden at work.
Flower made up of 5 diamond shaped petals in a pale blue with delicate striped patterns. The centre is a wriggling mass of green and blue stamen and it has spiky looking green fronds around the outside of the flower
May 21, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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More hedgerow wildflowers in the key of pink.
Tall flowers against the bright green and black of a hedge in full sunshine. Wide open petals on trumpet shaped buds, all in varying shades of pink and magenta.
May 20, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Another plant that the bees keep coming back to.
Flower head made up of dozens of tiny starbursts of flowers, a deep pink that glows like a ruby in the sunshine.
May 19, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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A beautiful rose and a very busy bee.
White rose, fully open with many layers of crisp, entirely white petals. The centre of saffron and gold stamen is being visited by a gold and black bumble bee, its antenna visible as it collects pollen. Green leaves and a rough stone wall behind the rose.
May 18, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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I swear cow parsley season gets earlier every year.
Multi flowered head of a tall green plant, 14 tightly clustered flower heads arranged symmetrically like orbiting planets
May 17, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Waves of buttercups breaking against the dark woods.
A large field if green grass shot through with golden buttercups, the view framed by shadow dark trees, blue sky just peeping through at the top
May 16, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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May blossom. Very glad the scent doesn't come through on here.
Tight clusters of white blossom made up of tiny petaled flowers, very long stamen ending with dark pollen heads make the flowers look almost spotted
May 15, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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The first cistus out in the garden.
Flower made from 5 large bright pink crumpled petals, each with a magenta spot, like a paintbrush smear, at the edge in the centre, which itself is made of hundreds of short golden stamen.
May 14, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Rosemary flowering like crazy
Small crumpled pale mauve petals on a spiky green plant, many rust coloured curled up old petals among them.
May 13, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Not the usual bright pink hawthorn leaves
A vast number of small 5-petaled flowers clustered thickly together, their petals shading from white at the centre to a deep pink at the edges, long white, pollen rich stamen bursting from each flower
May 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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I've never seen such amazingly spotted leaves on an early purple orchid before.
Three out of focus purple flowers on long stems, all coming from a thick clump of knife shaped green leaves, almost covered in chocolate brown spots.
May 11, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Broom appears to be flowering like crazy this year
Yellow petals with a red spot, green seed pods below with fuzzy edges
May 10, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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I love the candle-like clusters pf flowers on chestnut trees - but up close like this they look like underwater creatures.
Flowers clustering in a pyramid shape, their petals white with pink spots at their bases, long tendril like stamen with brown pollen pods at the end, curling up and away from the flowers.
May 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM