even the trees have given up

thanks to @unfortunatalie.bsky.social posting about it, i managed to nip in and see the doreen Fletcher exhibition on fourier Street today!

who is this and why is she in my stairwell

bees too!

if you sit still birds happen:

having a coffee in the phoenix garden, which is appreciably cooler than the surrounding area, because arboreal microclime, etc. (bsky ate the previous version of this post which had 3 pics)

recommend painting one yourself so you can have whatever you want on it!

William Blake house has an update for us

MURUGIAH at the quentin Blake centre for illustration in clerkenwell

i love my header image so much i framed it,btw. it's the first thing you see coming into my flat.

We don't usually see each other's headers. Here's mine. Quote post with yours. (i don't like flashing follower counts around very much so i've censored that)

i dumped a sorry-looking pansy plant on top of the water retention moss in my big fig's pot and after much watering and several melodramatic wilting sessions it is flowering!

Alliaria petiolata! they're a woodland creature but you can find them in parks and appropriately shady verges.

Ian Richardson as Lord Groan after his library is burnt:

love the way container gardening has me filling up my my phone with endless slightly different shots of small green blobs coming out of the dirt. They're growing!! they grow!

there's a brick wall in crouch end with multiple alpine plants growing off it and they're all flowering at once

I think this plays much better than the snake thing

Ahem.

It just keeps getting better

when i get a new follower

i entirely winged this cake and fuck me it's gorgeous. adding a tablespoon of (uk, sweet) mincemeat truly elevated it. as did accidentally doubling the amount of spice

Holly made this of my mouldy teabag for me

you know it in your heart

If you see this, I implore you to post a picture from whatever device you’re using with no explanation

Sorry this was my immediate thought

the likely site of this joyful infant's conception:

pig: processed