😎🌵🪴 Seenage life is great

Today we celebrate International Day of Older People, and in our latest blog, our Chief Executive Dr @caroleeaston.bsky.social OBE reflects on this year’s theme celebrating the vital role that social connections can play in our lives.

Sunday blue sky in Totnes: #sunday #sunshine #totnes #bluesky

#GoodAcoustics
#MusicChallenge

Day 18

Doc and his son doing one of my favorite Dylan songs.

Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright - Doc and Merle Watson

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Can't blame GWR but a few months ago we had a cow on the platform delay. Took ages to find a farmer.

The Future Buddha in Thiksay Monastery near Leh in Ladakh. #Buddha #Leh #Ladakh #thiksay

The highest marathon in the world this past weekend. #ladakh #leh #running #marathon

Glad to be one!

Ladakh, so different to Totnes!

Vote Lineker.

Done!

Paul Nash belonged to the very diverse generation of British modern artists who went to the Slade and included Stanley Spencer, Ben Nicholson, and Dora Carrington. 'Wood on the Downs,' (c1929) features Ivinghoe Beacon in Buckinghamshire; a gratifying picture of Englishness.

Elizabeth Strout has the abiltiy to take the joys and sorrows of very ordinary people and show that no one is ordinary. I recommend allof her books.I would read all the Devon bus timetables if she had written them. Lucy by the Sea is set during covid and is evocative of that strange time. Read her!

Join the UK Network of Age-friendly Communities in celebrating the power that social connections have in shaping our lives and communities this International Day of Older People on 1 October.

This year’s UK theme is: Building Belonging: Celebrating the power of our social connections.

W H Smiths has 100s of essentials for the autumn term.
So glad I only had to get myself and a pen to school but that was before we all became consumers.

It was good to witness so many folk stopping and acknowledging the horror.

The tide has just turned on this beutiful summer evening in Totnes #summer #riverdart #evening #totnes

We now havw the Buddha in our garden #buddha #gratitude #calm #buddhist

Really early for blackberries, I've been picking from the same place for a couple of weeks. Today's pick was 300 grams. #fruits #hedgerowharvest #blackberries #Foraging

Harvesting in the rain this morning: Runner beans, courgette, cucumbers, chard, cavalo nero, salad and the first tromboncino summer squash. Look like a good year for squashes so I'm harvesting small - this one was approx .4kg. #squash #allotmentlife #garden #vegetables