Mike R ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ
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Mike R ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ
@mikerobin.bsky.social
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Northern gay bloke, happily early-retired, filling my time with gardening, singing, dancing, cooking, walking the hound, and gadding around with husband @briascub.bsky.social
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I have questions Luke. Like, why have your friends left these behind? It's one thing I try to make sure I still have when I leave
Dog walk.
#Allotment visit (polytunnel mostly cleared, winter lettuce sown, wood chip shifted).
#Choir rehearsal (I do love making it sound better rather than just learning notes... although in the case of one song, I do need to learn the notes before this is helpful.)
Cocktails.
Retirement's great.
I knew this too, but now I want to know about "gai Ian"
Today I created a new bed on the #allotment to sow broad beans, and since I didn't have cardboard or much compost and it was full of perennial weeds, I dug for once. If ever I needed persuading to stick to #nodig (as usual) in future, this afternoon worked. Send gin and a masseur
#allotmentlife
Feeling slightly emotional after finishing this. Shades of "This is Us" in the way it jumps around the time line of a set of siblings and step-siblings, teasing you with hints about events we've not seen yet.
Always on the lookout for new authors to read... I wonder if her other books are as good?
A mate saw this in the North East a few days back and was telling us how good it is.
If I thought they'd only take a few I wouldn't mind. It's when they take them all. ๐Ÿ˜ก
I did wrap up my figs to keep the squirrels off them.
I guess that's easier than this solution, which someone shared with me on here.
Out of my patch of 12 sweetcorns, I got to eat three. Something has a whale of a time with the rest (my fellow plotholders usually blame badgers)
It might be that we just don't know anyone who was raptured. Cos I mean, look at our friends... ๐Ÿ˜‰๐Ÿ˜Š
Shortly to be followed by home-grown apple (variety unknown) and (foraged) blackberry crumble with (home-made) fig ice cream.
Today's adventure in randomly making up recipes based loosely on something I've seen was home-grown organic slow-roasted red kuri squash risotto with rosemary, semi-dried cherry tomatoes, red wine stock and parmesan.

Very tasty indeed.

#nodig #allotment #allotmentlife #growyourown #gaygardeners
Having seen frost on the roofs (rooves?) this morning I decided it was time to harvest any outdoor tomatoes that had any hint they were ripening, to bring inside.
It turns out that's 16 lb of tomatoes ๐Ÿ…
Maybe I overdid how many I planted this year ๐Ÿค”
#nodig #allotment #allotmentlife #growyourown
This is the first year I grew flowers at my #nodig #allotment, partly for pollinators and more biodiversity generally, partly cos they're pretty, and partly to cut them and bring them home. In the last month the sunflowers have brought me particular joy.

#allotmentlife #growyourown #gaygardeners
Oh look! More tomatoes ๐Ÿ˜Š

I've been waiting for the whopper to ripen, and only remembered today that I planted some that turn orange rather than red. It's actually overripe.

Also courgettes (obvs), borlotto and black beans, and leaks.

#nodig #allotment #allotmentlife #growyourown #gaygardeners
The ones that ripened between Tuesday and today.
Temperatures are definitely dropping, and not sure how much longer the plants will do anything, but if the weather is kind there are lots more to come.
#nodig #allotment #allotmentlife #growyourown #gaygardeners
... But mainly it's just that I like the idea of it being badgers more than rats ๐Ÿ˜‰
Blimey, that's impressive.
It was whole cobs, and another plotholders set up a camera that snapped a badger getting his last year. I had a fence but it wasn't very high. Those taken (so far) were at the edge so I could imagine a badger could reach. Presumably rats could've taken the others...
So what did you think? I lost interest when they were tripping in the forest
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I suppose Rayner can now sell her posh flats in Glasgow, her Chelsea mews house and ยฃ19m London townhouse, plus her yacht, while she works out how to get the National Crime Agency to unfreeze ยฃ75m of her assets.

My bad, that's Michelle Mone.
Watching Alcaraz v Djokovic in the US open semi. Carlos started playing tennis aged 4. The same year, Novak first got into the top ten (in fact, finished that year ranked 3 in the world).