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Mike R 🏳️‍🌈 @mikerobin.bsky.social · 23d

Not "airborne flour"! 😱
#royalexchange #theatre

Theatre "content warning" saying "contains smoking, haze and some airborne flour"

Mike R 🏳️‍🌈 @mikerobin.bsky.social · 24d

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

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Mike R 🏳️‍🌈 @mikerobin.bsky.social · 24d

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.

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Mike R 🏳️‍🌈 @mikerobin.bsky.social · 25d

I knew this too, but now I want to know about "gai Ian"

Mike R 🏳️‍🌈 @mikerobin.bsky.social · 26d

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

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Mike R 🏳️‍🌈 @mikerobin.bsky.social · Oct 3

It seems I'm better at growing tomatoes than I am at growing melons.

#nodig #allotment #allotmentlife #growyourown #gaygardeners

A large red/orange beefsteak tomato (variety buffalo sun) next to a much smaller melon.

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Mike R 🏳️‍🌈 @mikerobin.bsky.social · Oct 1

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?

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Mike R 🏳️‍🌈 @mikerobin.bsky.social · Sep 27

A mate saw this in the North East a few days back and was telling us how good it is.

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Mike R 🏳️‍🌈 @mikerobin.bsky.social · Sep 26

If I thought they'd only take a few I wouldn't mind. It's when they take them all. 😡

Mike R 🏳️‍🌈 @mikerobin.bsky.social · Sep 26

I did wrap up my figs to keep the squirrels off them.

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Mike R 🏳️‍🌈 @mikerobin.bsky.social · Sep 26

I guess that's easier than this solution, which someone shared with me on here.

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Mike R 🏳️‍🌈 @mikerobin.bsky.social · Sep 26

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)

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Mike R 🏳️‍🌈 @mikerobin.bsky.social · Sep 25

It might be that we just don't know anyone who was raptured. Cos I mean, look at our friends... 😉😊

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Mike R 🏳️‍🌈 @mikerobin.bsky.social · Sep 25

Shortly to be followed by home-grown apple (variety unknown) and (foraged) blackberry crumble with (home-made) fig ice cream.

Mike R 🏳️‍🌈 @mikerobin.bsky.social · Sep 25

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

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Mike R 🏳️‍🌈 @mikerobin.bsky.social · Sep 22

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 🍅
Maybe I overdid how many I planted this year 🤔
#nodig #allotment #allotmentlife #growyourown

A cardboard box containing tomatoes. At one end the tomatoes are mainly yellowy green. Below them, orange, then lower red ones. In size they range from tiny cherry to one huge beefsteak tomato.

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Mike R 🏳️‍🌈 @mikerobin.bsky.social · Sep 18

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

A vase of sunflowers in a kitchen counter. Most are yellow, with one a kind of burnt orange.

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Mike R 🏳️‍🌈 @mikerobin.bsky.social · Sep 13

Oh look! More tomatoes 😊

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

A huge yellowy/orangey tomato (variety buffalo sun), next to a tiny red cherry tomato (probably crimson cherry variety).

Inside of a bag containing tomatoes of various sizes and shapes, plus borlotti beans and black beans

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Mike R 🏳️‍🌈 @mikerobin.bsky.social · Sep 12

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

A bag of red tomatoes, various varieties but mainly Roma and crimson cherry

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Mike R 🏳️‍🌈 @mikerobin.bsky.social · Sep 6

Sounds lovely!

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Mike R 🏳️‍🌈 @mikerobin.bsky.social · Sep 6

... But mainly it's just that I like the idea of it being badgers more than rats 😉

Mike R 🏳️‍🌈 @mikerobin.bsky.social · Sep 6

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...

Mike R 🏳️‍🌈 @mikerobin.bsky.social · Sep 5

So what did you think? I lost interest when they were tripping in the forest

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Kenny Campbell @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social · Sep 5

I suppose Rayner can now sell her posh flats in Glasgow, her Chelsea mews house and £19m London townhouse, plus her yacht, while she works out how to get the National Crime Agency to unfreeze £75m of her assets.

My bad, that's Michelle Mone.

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Mike R 🏳️‍🌈 @mikerobin.bsky.social · Sep 5

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).