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Jo Stafford

Jo Stafford

@legless2007.bsky.social

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Butterflies, bats, birds, F1, F2, F3. It's all about the wings. The Archers, Allotment grower, street art fan, Peregrina. Widowed, sadness likely. She/her.

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Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · 12d

Oooh 5.55am race starts would be perfect for me!

Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · 20d

I’ve got snacks from every continent, just the one empanada though, can’t have South America over-represented

Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · 20d

Sending strength to you and your family. I’m glad you made it to lit fest. I thought of you when I saw there was a park run related one. My events start on Sunday, I love lit fest.

Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · 23d

It’s a seedy, sometimes juicy existence

Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · 23d

In summer I keep my neighbours in home grown heirloom tomatoes and in autumn I am rich in apples and foraged walnuts, mushrooms and quinces that they give me. I feel so fortunate.

Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · 23d

So readable and funny. I really enjoy them. I think it’s worth giving one a try.

Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · Aug 24

It really is an excellent #tomato year.

Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · Aug 23

Absolutely, it’s unimaginable

Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · Aug 23

Ok, I’ll send you some varied home made easy slop upgrade stuff. Let me get some ideas together. Do you eat meat?

Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · Aug 23

The uncertainty is a real worry

Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · Aug 23

What do you like to eat? I can cook well but often don’t have the motivation. I’m sure I can give you some easy, tasty ideas.

Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · Aug 23

I don’t know how we get past this if our summers are going to be shorter and hotter like this year.

Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · Aug 23

The allotment kept me going through grief and lockdowns(a cracking combo), and I am proud. Even though there’s more bindweed still than I’d really like. This week I finally made a “profit” in terms of value of produce against what it cost to grow.

Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · Aug 23

It’s my 6 year allotmentversary. On this day I sent Andrew this photo (he was in A&E after a motorbike accident) and told him this was totally fine! It’s not as lush today as usual, the drought has been hard, but it’s better, and I did it all myself (he died the following January). #allotment #widow

Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · Aug 10

It took me 2.5 hours to sort out the chaos of 40 tomato plants in my tiny yard this morning. It turns out they do quite well if you abandon them for 2 weeks with auto irrigation. Rewarded with the first ripe Artisan Golden Bumblebee. #tomato

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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · Aug 8

Got this really cool, ghostly picture by accident the other day in Dillon Beach, CA. It is a Heermann's gull with both it's shadow and reflection.

#birds

Juvenile Heermann's gull (very dark all over) in flight, flying over very very shallow water. Flying to the right maybe two feet off the ground. It's shadow is to the right. Just below the shadow is a reflection on the sheen of water.

Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · Aug 8

Home from a lovely European adventure mostly by train to the Hungarian Grand Prix via Paris and Vienna. Now I can settle down and watch the race. It’s fair to say you go to F1 to see it, feel it and smell the burning rubber, but the race can be hard to follow. #F1

Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · Jul 25

Out of office on. It’s full time motorsport (tv then travel then live) for the next couple of weeks. #F1 #F2 #F3

Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · Jul 19

You know you spend too much time in Spain when you're refreshing your languages to try and be polite in upcoming holiday and you think "what's French for por favor?". There will definitely be Spanish, my default foreign, accidentally slipping in with attempted French, German and Hungarian.

Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · Jul 18

I hope these Jersey Devil tomatoes stop expanding and start ripening soon! #tomato

Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · Jul 9

Post work door-to-door courgette distribution to the neighbours successfully completed, it's still early enough in the season that they answer the door to me when I'm trying to get rid of excess produce.

Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · Jul 1

Pitched my tent in a field at Silverstone, lounging under a tree and there’s a bunch of some kind of Hairstreak butterflies at the top of the ash tree in mature hedgerow above my head. I don’t have my binoculars. This is a tragedy. People are looking at me funny, wondering why I’m staring at a tree.

Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · Jun 29

We have lift off from the garden ant nests and the hundreds at gulls in the sky above are having a great day #FlyingAnts

Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · Jun 28

Yeah I do give away a lot, the foodbank collects from our allotment site in summer as well. Luckily cauli is very versatile so you could have a lot of variety when you have cauli every day! I've never managed to grow one bigger than tennis ball size so it's not been a problem I've had.

Jo Stafford @legless2007.bsky.social · Jun 28

Oh don’t get me started on those! I just can’t cull plants, so I have many cucumbers to come. There’s that trend of sliced cucumber salads with different flavourings that use a whole one. Good luck with the pickling!