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Visited Cambridge Botanic gardens at the weekend. Lots of beautiful trees in their autumn best
#autumn #autumntrees #cambridgebotanicgarden

Autumn coloured tree in the park

Lovely autumn colours in the local park #autumn

My viburnum snowball bush in the evening sunshine

#springflowers #viburnum-opulus #snowball-bush

I adore my glass dip pen. Always my goto.

I love dandelions but have spent the last week picking seed heads before they spread but there's always some to continue for next year. Soon to catch the bluebells, forgot me nots and green akanite

Just buy the pen and a single sketch book. See how you get on. By the way, dip pens are fabulous for drawing.

So much gorse in flower along the M3 motorway today. Also the new seasons leaves on the trees are bursting out their buds. Spring is here 💛
#gorse #springuk

That's an excellent photo, well done you.

I've learnt the hard way, that it will stay there unless you actually do more to it or cut it off. I know from experience that the brain thinks if you leave it long enough it will just disappear but no, you just have to push through. Try doing 2cm a day most days. It's surprising how it adds up.

I lost my tiny, high-speed spindle today. Decided to dowse for it. I asked if it was in each room separately and got a positive in my sewing room. In fact it almost danced, bouncing around! 10 mins later l'd found it 💜💜
#dowsing #dowsingforlostitems
#sindlespinning
#cottonspinning
#lostitems

Ai generated picture using what 3 words

I've just come up with a fun past time. Go to what 3 words and either pick somewhere or use where you are and put the words into an AI picture generator and see what comes up. This is my local Waitrose entrance where I've just been 🤣 (tamed player swoop)

#waitrose #what3words #ai ##aiart

I just craved a packed lunch. I offered to make it myself but my parents insisted on paying 5 shillings a week for food I never ate and most often locked myself in the loo to avoid.

I occasionally visit the Ladybird collection at the Rural life museum in Reading, Berkshire. A lovely place to reminisce.

Roland Holder was my parents favourite artist

Oooh I'd rather have that than mashed potatoes in perfect ice-cream scoops with loads of black lumps in, indescribable "meat" that looked like rope and wizzened carrots that tasted decidedly not like carrots all topped with congealed gravy. I did my utmost to disappear at lunch times.

I still have some 😆 I also have a couple of silver sixpence inherited from my parents.

I only had the winter book when I was little. Perhaps I should seek out the others?

We used to love seeing bats sweeping around in the dusk sky until my neighbour had plastic eave covering put on their house no doubt trapping them inside 😭

Take it into an Apple store. It's surprising what tricks they have to sort things. I was amazed when I took my computer in.

AI generated depiction of SpongeBob in a pram

My AI requests can be made too. This one I asked for SpongeBob in a pram 😆

Homemade scones on a wooden plate

My little treat to go with my green tea after making butter then buttermilk scones this afternoon. #homemade #homecooked #scones

Cat sat in a propagator

Cat stood in a bench propagator

Today, I appear to be propagating a cat 😆

A curious question, do you ever look back on old days or could they just be cleared? I'm not sure I'd look back at my to-do list saying 1, mow the lawn 2, buy fish.

I found this mushroom at RHS Wisley today
#mushroom #fungus #RHSWisley

😆 well at least you cleared it up and definitely better than when you all watered the TV with a watering can to make it sparkle!!!!

Interested to see how it turns out

Lol, I'm enjoying my warming cup of green tea at this very moment

Awww that's SO cute!

A calorie free cup of green tea would do the trick just as well