Christine

@seatsixtyone.bsky.social Metro to and from Gare d’Austerlitz is replaced by bus service at Bastille until 23 April. Straightforward to navigate but takes extra time.

Foggy day in the Lake District.

The more I travel on UK trains the more I realise that timetables are a figment of the train operator’s imagination. A horrendous journey and still only halfway to my destination.

4 shelves of books: Shelf 1: A Curtain Twitcher's Book of Murder; Sandwich; The Other Valley; Orbital; Sometimes People Die; The List of Suspicious Things Shelf 2: Ink Ribbon Red; Falling Animals; All the Colours of the Dark; Freakslaw; Leading Man; William Shelf 3: Anyone's Ghost; Bored Gay Werewolf; The Betrayal of Thomas True; Guilty By Definition; The Pairing; The Actor Shelf 4: The Last Murder at the End of the World; The Examiner; The Husbands; Helle & Death; Death on the Lusitania; The Fellowship of the Puzzlemakers

Festive Giveaway! RT and follow by 5pm on Friday 27th December.

I’ll pick one lucky person from all entrants on Twitter and Bluesky.

One lucky person can pick either shelf 1, 2, 3 or 4 from my Bertvent books of the year as a New Year treat!

UK only.

I’m the only one in my family eating roasted marmite sprouts

Early morning wake up by #stormdarragh. It sounds wild out there and I’m only in the yellow warning area.

I know I’m getting old but I’ve only heard of 5 of them.

Banjska Stena viewpoint in Serbia - fog. Went anyway, couldn’t see a thing.

Sneaking back onto X is like a guilty pleasure. Love falling down a rabbit hole of conspiracy theorists….

Ah phew. Never played it myself!

It was Last Christmas a few days ago. I felt sorry for anyone playing Whamageddon!

#gbbo Why do the contestants all wear exactly the same clothes on the ‘second’ day?

Amidst #COP29, you might have missed it but, the most important environmental treaty since the #Paris is being negotiated THIS week!

At the #INC-5 in Busan, countries are hoping to strike an agreement on a global treaty to reduce #plastic pollution.

But why is this relevant for climate? A 🧵

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People watching whilst waiting for Midge Ure. We’re all a similar demographic- teenagers in the 80s. Interesting to compare how we’ve all aged.

My son is not happy (City fan)…

Good point, thank you!

Is it OK to mulch around blueberries with leaves? I have three in large containers which I’ve mulched with fallen leaves. But I wasn’t sure as I know they need ericaceous compost and I have no idea if leaves are good or bad for them!

London. Had a couple of hours spare for a wander last night. A city I love to visit but would hate to live in. (I need greenery!)

Petition: Ban driven grouse shooting Chris Packham, Ruth Tingay and Mark Avery (Wild Justice) believe that driven grouse shooting is bad for people, the environment and wildlife. People; we think grouse shooting is economically insignifi...

I would like you, please, to sign this petition to ban driven grouse shooting. The first under a Labour government.

10k signatures gets a government response, 100k a debate in Westminster parliament. UK residents & UK citizens living abroad can sign.

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A bumblebee can only fly for about 40 mins between feeding. But we've lost 97% of our wiłdflower meadows. So each nectar-rich flower you plant in a windowbox or in your garden or community green spaces could be the pit stop that saves a bee 🐝
#SaveTheBees

My first time ‘watching’ GBBO on BlueSky rather than X.

I know it’s not much but this wasn’t in the forecast for south Oxfordshire!

Made the leap. Now to try and find the accounts I enjoyed on the other site.