The fruit net still doesn't deter the young blackbird from trying to pinch my blueberries.

Well that's that. The hot weather has caused all of my brocolli to bolt. Looking on the bright side, the bees and hoverflies like them and it keeps the cabbage white away from my other brassicas.

Red heat warning for south Wales and southern England. Stay cool out there. Time for a day off unless you work in an air conditioned office?

Just about the only way he can make sense of his ramblings

Hillside needs a bit of help to cover an emergency vet bill. On Boxing Day, Edward, pictured below in recovery, was rushed to a Newmarket veterinary practice for emergency life-saving colic surgery. paypal.com/donate/?host...

or this one which shows resullts from a few different polling entities

I beg to differ. Screenshot taken from YouGov voting intention. Reform on 27%, top of the leader board.

During autumn hedgehogs will begin to turn their attention to hibernation. They build hibernation nests and feed up to store energy. As the trees shed their leaves, create piles around your garden. This will encourage creepy crawlies for hedgehogs to eat, and provide nesting materials

Keir Starmer has recalled the cabinet from their summer holiday to discuss the urgent situation in Gaza. Strong words are not enough. At 1pm outside Downing Street, bang pots and pans and say: Stop starving Gaza. Stop arming Israel.

LOCATION CHANGE: WE ARE ALL PALESTINE ACTION🚨 The Metropolitan police banned the protest from happening at the Houses of Parliament, it has been moved to Trafalgar Square. MOBILISE FROM 12PM TODAY (MONDAY 23RD JULY) AT TRAFALGAR SQUARE, LONDON.

🚨 Live facial recognition in @asda supermarkets = replacing staff with machines & treating customers as suspects. I won’t shop at #Asda if this continues. #StopAsdaSpying | @BigBrotherWatch

This is how you respond to the intrusive DWP 'survey'

They train them well.

RIP Lucie. You were the goodest girl!

Pretty sure it is Betelgeuse. compare to this image from BBC Sky at Night

And now we have been upgraded to an Amber warning for High winds on Friday. Starts: 06:00 GMT on Fri 24 JanuaryEnds: 21:00 GMT on Fri 24 January Storm Éowyn is expected to bring very strong winds and widespread disruption on Friday Issued at: 11:31 GMT on Tue 21 January

There are certainly different opinions out there

credit morningbrew.com Bend, OR leaders are not humored by the ocular vandalism. “While the googly eyes placed on the various art pieces around town might give you a chuckle,” the city said in an Instagram post, “it costs money to remove them with care to not damage the art.”

North Wales, we have warnings all the way through the weekend. I guess you will be about the same. Saturday is particularly bleak.

Lucie says 'Hi Nelly'

Just tried #ChatGPT image generation+

Hoping to catch this lovely creature on other nights.

Jumping ship from the bird app, so here's my Lucie to say hello. She'd just had a half-hour game over the field and wanted to rest 😀