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Prof Jenny Rohn

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Cellular microbiologist, #UTI host/pathogen interactions, lab head at University College London, novelist, broadcaster, writer, pundit, Editor of LabLit.com, all things geek-chic. Find out more at jennyrohn.com

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Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 10h

Plenty of nuts, berries and fungi this week, but very few flowers in my part of Kent. Here’s Green Alkanet (Pentaglottis sempervirens), which graces our verges from spring well into winter

#WildflowerHour

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A small deep-blue flower (6 petals with a lighter blue centre) on a lush-leaved stem with fallen brown leaves in the background

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Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 12h

About 15 minutes after I snapped that yesterday, I found him on my hand! (He’d crawled up the camp chair). Fortunately I’m still alive.

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Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 15h

This recipe calls for sore-bought cooked beetroot. Did you prepare your raw beetroots a particular way for this?

Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 17h

Thank you! Will try (with honey from our own back garden bees)

Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 18h

Do you have a good recipe for the tart?

Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 19h

Nothing gives me more satisfaction than the all-home-grown dish. Looks tasty!

Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 19h

Also adorably small at this point. They’re still only trainees.

Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 19h

That’s what the government wants you to think

Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 19h

My son and husband are at rugby practice and the house is like a crypt.

Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 20h

You are wise

Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 20h

Duh. Sorry. It’s early and I’ve only had one cup of coffee.

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Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 20h

What are we seeing here?

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Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 20h

Ah, the fatuous paupers are all over that. They’d have stolen your flock by morning.

Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 20h

DEFRA imposes lockdowns during bird flu season so we are pretty confident about avoiding the flu. No other birds can access the outdoor run and we don’t feed garden greens during those times. We see the occasional illness which can be tragic, but on balance the joy of keeping them outweighs it.

Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 20h

Correction-the white one is a Cheshire Blue not Cambridge. Just looked up on farm’s website - she’s an Araucana and White leghorn cross. Partridge one (Skyline) is a Crested Cream Legbar hybrid. Miss Olive (dark one) they don’t specify.

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Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 20h

Ah, the breeds have so many synonyms. These were advertised as Cambridge Blue, Miss Olive and Heritage Skyline. Not the best pic, but here they all are on day 1 when they still needed to be kept separate from the big run for their own protection

Three very young hens in a cage: black, partridge and white

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Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 20h

I guess in the olden days, the turnips used to wander around. Those were simpler times.

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Medlife Crisis (Rohin) @medcrisis.bsky.social · 21h

I like to think this was just one guy’s CV

waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 22h

Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.

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Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 20h

We expanded our flock with three new hens just as our white/brown layers tapered off for the winter - so now the egg palette is a dreamy blue-green for the foreseeable.