Bill Reid

Stunning

Salvia Dombeyi - Giant Bolivian Sage - what a belter! 🇬🇧🌱

We bought this machine years ago and it has served us well. I’ve had to repair it a couple of times as I couldn’t find a like for like. The metal one is so robust.Passata every year which we use pasta dishes, paella and more.
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Breakfast plate topped with Figs, Mulberries, Raspberries,Plums, Blackberries, and Japanese Wineberries.

Breakfast this morning topped with Figs, Plums, Mulberries, Blackberries, Raspberries, and Japanese Wineberries - all picked fresh from the garden. This delight will only last a few weeks - but it is THE best time!!
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Smokey the cat and Betty the Cockapoo sitting side by side looking out of the back door

These 2 watching from the sideline!

And to think he couldn’t get a game for ManU. He is a star.

2-2 fair. Fantastic series which broke all sorts of individual and team records and came down to the last wicket or 6 runs at the end of 25 days. I love this iteration of the England side. I thought England had broken Indian resolve through Root and Brook….but Siraj…..what a competitor.

Cryptic crossword No 29,762 Cryptic crossword No 29,762

I set today’s Guardian cryptic crossword, he said with a triumphant cry!

American people putting up with monster (4)

Mark E. Smith’s head rattles (6)

Granny and her daughter saved by outlaw superhero (9)

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Me too - in Tiptree when on holiday. Only once did i try the stone in the punnet trick - 2 strikes and you’re out mate the gaffer said! Good fun but very hard work.

That last one just shows what a load of bollocks some stats are!! Much as I love them.

It’s all a bit jumpers for goalposts. Without Sky’s money who knows where the game would be. Even now the counties are still having to invent things to flog off just to stay afloat. And given the fantastic spectacle of the first 3 tests what a crying shame that is.

Donald’s gone. Long Live JD.

Imbecilic

We’ll get on with it, then!!!!

Never seen so many. Fab,

Just back from the dog walk. Betty (the dog) and I drenched for the first time in weeks but the garden is loving it!

Yes

He certainly performed well enough in NZ and did well with the bat as I recall. I love watching Crawley bat…. And opening is so difficult but…. As you say…🤷‍♀️….but I suspect the only change will be an enforced one.

I still think we’d be in a better place with a new opener and a new number 3. Or put Smith at 3 and give Pope the gloves. Fascinated to see if Bashir bowls tomorrow and what will happen if he’s not fit for the next test?

India have outplayed us I’m afraid. We have to look at some batting changes. No wickets for Bumrah!

I was going to recommend your book, Sam…..but hey….you did it!!

Make it viral 💙🇺🇸

Billy and Sunny the 2 goats sit in the sunshine

And Billy and Sunny send their love.

Dahlia Fascination in the foreground and a grapevine with a couple of well formed bunches in the background

Early July -Derbyshire. Dahlia Fascination soon in need of deadheading and a couple of well formed bunches of grapes in the background. There must be some mistake!!!🇬🇧🌱

Dahlia Fascination in the foreground and a grapevine in the background with a couple of bunches of grapes.

Early July -Derbyshire. Dahlia Fascination soon in need of deadheading and a couple of well formed bunches of grapes in the background. There must be some mistake!!!

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A pigeon nesting in a honeysuckle hedge at the side of the garden.

Snap

You’re so often right, Bear. I really hope you are this time. Your piece on the Glastonbury chant was the best I’ve read and should be compulsory reading. How you can be so balanced and thoughtful when all i want to do is throw things!!

Billy the Kid and Rosie the Goose

Silly Billy

The right are strongly opposed to big government when it means giving people healthcare but not when it means terrorising them.