Lucy Corrander
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Lucy Corrander
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Wild plants, gardening, allotment, photography. Arrived from the old Twitter. Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. https://looseandleafyinhalifax.blogspot.com/ https://messageinamilkbottle.blogspot.com/ On Twitter too. https://x.com/LucyCorrander
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Someone has sent me a 'chat' message. Sorry, I can't access it. It's not that I object to giving Bluesky my age - but without my age it will hopefully prevent me from inadvertently accessing things I would rather avoid.
Mine are tough now but eating the beans from inside the pods (or whatever you call the outer bit).
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This is why Starmer said we wouldn’t be getting closer to the EU. It’s because we can’t, he’s signed contracts with big corporations who will then effectively govern Britain and these corporate zones aren’t allowed by the EU.

Confused as to why there’s not more publicity? Me too.
Well yes. I think so. You are a lone voice in the wilderness, trying to draw attention to important and frightening things that a lot of us don't understand let alone know what to do about. Need simplifiers and slogans to popularise. But keep going. It IS important.
I bought toffees to give out at Halloween but . . . if I resolve to keep the lights off this evening and pretend to be out . . . I could eat them now.
News flash. Fast growth in plants. Have been told by a load of four and five year olds that their daffodils are already as big as the lime trees beside their playground. We haven't planted them yet!
Wondering with these - if they are in a border, could they have been used at some time as ornamental edging?
I've got bricks - and sometimes what seem like stone lintels from old doorways. (Along with plastic, glass and old carpets - still.)
There used to be special pots for that purpose and would fill up (in a rather ugly way, to my mind) with roots. Couldn't see the point of them - but now I realise I should have paid more attention.
I know new roots come, I just wondered if the old dried up thingies sort of re-hydrated. Perhaps I'll have to experiment, as Tony suggest, to see for myself what happens.
Here's something I don't know about bulbs. Do the dried roots re-vivify once planted or does the plant rely solely on new roots emerging once in touch with damp soil?
Ladybirds remind me of daleks. Impressive on the outside but pretty repulsive if you look under their wings.
This definitely shows their attractive angle. A lovely photo.
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I hadn't realised black plastic pots are more of a problem than the pretend terracotta ones. Do you have a link where there's info. about this? I'm responsible for having ordered rather a lot of them!
. . . a bit like the letter 'e' apparently.
Bother. I've lost two cabbage white caterpillars. When you don't want them, they eat your brassicas. When you do want them they move house and potter off elsewher.
In the mist and rain. Warley Moor and Reservoir. Calderdale, West Yorkshire. 19th October 2025
I don't know anything about them either - and that is part of it. I don't understand them so I am in awe.
I don't see them as replacement flowers though. I enjoy them all the year round.
Fascinated to see different kinds now from those I used to observe in coastal Dorset.
Not sure how many people have a favourite wall but I even have a favourite group of lichens on my favourite wall. You're lucky it isn't near enough for me to post these same lichens every day or you might get bored. I've been worried for them this very dry summer Do many people worry about lichens?
Saw a Goosander for the first time yesterday, sitting on the water, then diving, then flying. Female. (Brown head.)
It's a time of re-wording. Football hooliganism re-branded as being 'less than well mannered' and violence as 'good-natured fun'.
In the '80s, National Front type people were active among football crowds and there were razor blades behind racist posters.
Mr Jenrick and I live in different worlds.
I'm not watching and have no idea who you are talking about - but really enjoying this post and imagining what this someone looks like.
Walking by reflections.
Canal near Hebden Bridge. 17th October 2025