Abigail Nunes-Richards

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Mum, scientist, archaeologist, geneticist, cheese monger.

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Abigail Nunes-Richards@abinr· 5d

The last cucumber... how appropriate.

A cucumber in a hand. The vine end of the cucumber did not thicken and is bent over with the stalk at the bottom so it looks like a swan.

Abigail Nunes-Richards@abinr· 6d

Is it this one. It sounds so interesting (plus it says it has receipes in its subheading)

Abigail Nunes-Richards@abinr· 10d

The answer. For your scone (pronounced like none).

A grey plate with two halves of a scone, one with cream on the left and jam on the right and the other the other way around. In the background are colourful vertical stripes

Abigail Nunes-Richards@abinr· 13d

Brevil = sandwich toaster, but a sandwich toaster is not a toaster. Although I have made cheese toasties in a toaster like so..

A silver pop up toaster with two browniesh toaster bags with toasties in them.

Abigail Nunes-Richards@abinr· 15d

Today's harvest. The hot dry spell is not our friend

Eight raspberries, one blackberry, one large plum shapped tomato, two cherry tomatoes and three plums in a bright yellow box with a thumb for scale

Abigail Nunes-Richards@abinr· 24d

Just strolling along having a drink and screaming for no reason. Monday Morning Heron.

Abigail Nunes-Richards@abinr· 24d

Morning Heron.

A grey heron is standing on a log at the edge of a river. He is pointing his pointy upstream looking quite paralell. Her perfect reflextion in the still reflecting-green water is also.

Abigail Nunes-Richards@abinr· Jul 14

Evil people. Wheras we disobeyed instructions to feed and water this swift fledgling for days until it flew away. We were told just let it starve, we were even told not to kill it, no way we could see this baby suffer like that. Although he really hated us and showed his dinosaur heritage.

Abigail Nunes-Richards@abinr· Jul 9

I think this is one of the baby swifts from our eaves. I have given it a saucer of water. Poor thing.

Abigail Nunes-Richards@abinr· Jul 6

But they also said the Sunday Times is Labour-leaning in an interview with one of the journalists. My face reacted the same way as hers.

Abigail Nunes-Richards@abinr· Jul 5

Just for context. This is a Sunday Times reporter!

Abigail Nunes-Richards@abinr· Jun 29

Morning heron youngling.

A young grey heron is standing in a shallow green river just downstream from a human made pebble circle.

Abigail Nunes-Richards@abinr· Jun 28

Bastards.

Colorado potato beetles eating my potoato leaves.

Abigail Nunes-Richards@abinr· Jun 18

Two days of harvesting. "If fresh veg and fruit are too expensive just grow your own" (for 440chf a year allotment fee and hundreds a year in tools, seeds, seedlings (when the seeds fail), bamboo seed pods, pots, compost, bio insect and shrew replents, water butts, etc). Love my allotment though.

Ten and a half raspberries, two sugarsnap pea pods, a longish red onion, a stunted yellow onion and three normalish and two stunted garlic bulbs on a black hob.

Abigail Nunes-Richards@abinr· Jun 17

That's not a stick That's a stick.

A bearded collie tryong to pick up a bigger stick (practically a branch).

Abigail Nunes-Richards@abinr· Jun 13

One of mine only has 2 (bottom canines) and he eats both soft and dry food.

Abigail Nunes-Richards@abinr· Jun 2

Got to love Libby.

Screen shot of the Libby page saying my hold for Yesteryear is ready as the library got 7 more copies.

Abigail Nunes-Richards@abinr· Jun 2

The rodent deflecter clearly doing a great job.

The same patch with slightly bigger weeds and half the number of lettuces.

Abigail Nunes-Richards@abinr· May 30

The shrew have discovered they like lettuce, but only the roots so they just leave the leafs on the surface to hide their holes and wilt. Wish they would eat the weeds instead.

A paych of weedy allotment with four lettuces and three holes were there used to be lettuces. The top and bottom holes of the picture have rings of wilted lettuce leaves around them.
The fourth hole can not be seen as it has had a rodent deterent shoved in it.
My blue trainered feet are on a slab path.

Abigail Nunes-Richards@abinr· May 25

Look how pretty!

Side view of a hornet's nest under construction. The cells are held away from the dome with a splint.

Abigail Nunes-Richards@abinr· May 25

Very nice nest, but, dahling, the lid of our bbq is not the best place for a nest. Please move.

A large stripy insect making a nest on a black metal surface which will be a globe with honeycomb inside.
Insect looks like a european hornet but the nest looks more wasp like.

Abigail Nunes-Richards@abinr· May 23

I bought a pack of socks and when I cut the label of they are Day of the Week socks and it's just made my (looks at feet) Saturday!

A pile of folded pastel socks on a wooden surface. The cardboard label has been cut through to reveal the word MONDAY on the top grey sock.

Abigail Nunes-Richards@abinr· May 21

Morning Heron, in the afternoon.

A grey heron stands on a rock the other dide of a shallow river. It's soul self is reflected in the still green water with lush green vegetatiom behind and a grey pebble beach in the foreground.

Abigail Nunes-Richards@abinr· May 19

Double rainbow.

Abigail Nunes-Richards@abinr· May 8

Absolutley fantastic writing here by Tahereh Mafi. Shivers down my spine at the imagery, I had to stop and regroup. Yes I'm a middle aged adult reading young adult litrature... the absolute quality of this breaks through such age groups. No wonder the 6 book pack I have has so many reserves on it.

Screenshot of a page from Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi.
"11.
"I'm so prepared for unimaginable horror that the reality is almost worse.
"Dirty money is dripping from the walls, a year's supply of food wasted on marble floors, hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical aid poured into fancy futniture and Persian rugs. I feel the artificial heat pouring in through air vents and think of children screaming for clean water. I squint through crystal chandeliers and hear mothers begging for mercy. I see a superficial world existing in the midst of a terrorizing reality and I can't move.
"I can't breathe.
"So many people must've died to sustain this luxury. So many people had to lose their homes and their children and their last 5 dollars in the bank for promises promises promises so many promises to save them from"

"...themseves. They *promised* us - The Reestablishment promised us hope for a better future. They said they would fix things, they said they would help us get back to the world we knew - the world with movie dates and spring weddings and baby showers. They said they would give us back our homes, our health, our sustainable future.
"But they stole everything.
"They took everything. (My life. My future. My sanity. My freedom.)
"They filled our world with weapons aimed at our foreheads and smiled as they shot 16 candles right through our future. They killed those strong enough to fight back and locked up the freaks who failed to live up to their utopian expectations. (People like me.)
"Here is proof of their corruption.
"My skin is cold-sweat, my fingers trembling with disgust, my legs unable to withstand (the waste the waste the waste) the selfish waste in these 4 walls. I'm seeing red everywhere. The blood of bodies spattered agsinst the windows, spilled across the carpets, dripping from the chaneliers.
"'Juliette-'
"I break."
On the screen shot of the following page.

Abigail Nunes-Richards@abinr· May 6

If I, a mear human, can see you falcon, then I've no doubt the prey birds can too.

Some kind of small bird of prey sitting on a bare branch atop a tree. The black body with white neck and shoulders stand out agsinst the blue sky

Abigail Nunes-Richards@abinr· Apr 21

Like this?

Three sections of an allotment with lots of weeds growing. The first row also has some tiny leeks snd the last has a tree with lots of growth around the bottom.

Abigail Nunes-Richards@abinr· Apr 15

Hubby accidentally stands on Black Cat. BC screams and jumps towards Black&White Cat. BWC hisses. Dog assumes cats are fighting so lunges at both cats. BC runs away. BWC starts swearing. Hubby holds dog. BWC runs away. I go to say sorry/check on cats. BC OK. BWC whacks me claws out into a vein.

A reddosh white hand in a grey sleeve.
The hand is a fist, with a bruise covering nearly half of the back of the hand.

Abigail Nunes-Richards@abinr· Apr 15

These two are ten today, their 9th anniversary of their adoption. They are still not sure about us being their hoomans.

A black cat and a black amd white cat are lounging on a large grey dog bed looking annoyed and sceptical.

Abigail Nunes-Richards@abinr· Apr 7

This queen is now free