Mike Rogers

Admire the Sparrows...
House Sparrows started the long moulting process in late summer and are now finally showing their true colours.
There's no better time to take a close look at these birds and appreciate the warm hues & patterning of both the female & male birds.
#ukbirds #weedypond 🌿🦉

Hello. It'll be about time when he does. That sounds a bit dodgy. Thanks, you too and likewise.

Hello, it's a damp and dull start with rain due later here so I'll be mostly discoing around indoors. Have a good day.

Thanks. That's a shame.

The fox is a majestic animal. What a treat to be able to see one so close.

Wonderful picture. I agree, it certainy is. They've long been resident on my allotment site so often see them, occasionally close up.

Betty on patrol near her nest. She may have sneaked a couple of worms whilst I topped up the wormery scraps.

Well done, you must be well chuffed (and rightly so).

Old postcard of Kingston on Thames, in Surrey, for sale in our shop here www.ebay.co.uk/itm/11685305...

I'll be amazed if any fruit develops. I sure have. Thanks, and you too. xx

An artwork of the wheel of the year with each segment filled with wildflowers and tree branches.

I've just finished writing this month's newsletter to go out tomorrow morning including some changes and a bit about Beech trees.

If you would like to receive it you can sign up here - haeslwrid.kit.com/7be7c45ab2

Also tomorrow is the last day to get the current prints!
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Digging out compost In recent years I’ve dug out, and sieved, compost from the three nearby commual woodchip bays as well as my own heap.  However they got covered in brambles and weeds, and filled with cut down…

Today's Flighty's plot blog post is Digging out compost - flightplot.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/d...

🌱 #UKGardening

Hello. Enjoy your day.

Hello, it's the same here. I'll probably be skipping to the plot after lunch. Have a good day.

Hello. Oh no, not again. Thanks, you too and likewise.

It's the same here. Thanks, and for you too. xx

Hello. Thanks, and yours too.

Lucky you. It's been damp and dull here all day.

Lucky you. It's been damp and dull all day here.

Yes, of course you can. Enjoy.

Sign the Petition Protect Hedgehogs: Add Them to Schedule 5 Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981

Hedgehogs can’t wait for a “10-year recovery plan.” The new planning bill bulldozes habitat now, promises to fix it later. Even the EU’s worried. Protect our spiky neighbours before they vanish.
👉 www.change.org/hedgehogpeti...
#SaveTheHedgehog #NatureNotNegotiable

Happy birthday! xx Enjoy the curry.

Unsolicited informal weather update: the sky has become ominously gun metal grey & at 2.30pm I need the light on to read! I’d better brew up to set the scene completely!

It's the same here but I've just had a(nother) cup of tea along with a couple of biscuits. Happy reading.

Lovely.

Lucky them and you, it's damp and dull here.

Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.

2.9 million people don't want digital ID in the UK, can we get it up to 3 million this week?

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

‘Coral Gardens’ Rose of the Year 2026, bare root and newly potted plants now available from nurseries, garden centres and online.
#RoseWednesday
Have a good day everyone, take care. 🌱

Hello. Good picture. Thanks, and for you too.

Hello. Thanks, and for you too. xx