Anne Robbins

@hincmariana

Once a historian, always a historian. But also a knitter, gardener, allotmenteer, petition signer, listener, reader.

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Anne Robbins@hincmariana· 17d

A Swiss version: cheese, cured meat, chocolate…

A vending machine, choices include cheese, M&Ms, soft drinks, and ham.

Anne Robbins@hincmariana· Jul 23

Oh, my beating heart: a lovely scream of swifts wheeling and jinking over Greenwich station. Amazing what you see, when you look up.

Anne Robbins@hincmariana· Jul 16

My feed right now thanks to @indyfromspace.bsky.social and @poorfrankraw.co.uk

Consecutive Bluesky posts, the first with news that cyclosporidium has reached Alabama, the second a stone carved with the words ‘oh SHIT’.

Anne Robbins@hincmariana· Jun 30

Oh no! The cinnabar moth caterpillars have eaten my ragweed! #allotmentlife

A big group of black and yellow caterpillars among leaves. They’re welcome to eat as much of the ragweed as they like!

Anne Robbins@hincmariana· Jun 7

A bit of red squirrel action at Brodick Castle, Arran.

A red squirrel sitting on the shelf of a wooden feeding station, pine branches behind.

Anne Robbins@hincmariana· May 17

Allotment life. (Sigh…) Hail doesn’t really suit potatoes.

A withered plant, showing the effects of frost and hail on potatoes.

Anne Robbins@hincmariana· May 16

Pick a Bond from photos you already have on your phone. Okay….

Mannequin at the Mevagissey Museum of Everything.

Anne Robbins@hincmariana· May 7

An array of classic cars in Kew today. The Royce was in a parking spot marked ‘Car Club Only’ which seemed … fun.

A black Rolls Royce car parked with billboards behind it advertising fried chicken and the national lottery.

An Aston Martin car, an old Mercedes Benz car, and a vintage German fire department van in bright red, with a national lottery billboard behind suggesting you might win twenty million quid.

Anne Robbins@hincmariana· Apr 23

Indeed I do.

A box of General’s Cedar Pointe pencils, in unpainted cedar wood. The best!

Anne Robbins@hincmariana· Apr 20

I was brought up on this poem: poets.org

Table Manners
The Goops, they lick their fingers,
And the Goops they lick their knives;
They spill their broth on the tablecloth -
Oh, they lead disgusting lives!
The Goops they talk while eating,
And loud and fast they chew;
And that is why I’m glad that I
Am not a Goop - are you?

Anne Robbins@hincmariana· Apr 17

Not actually at the front of this DLR train but what joy: toot toot!

A playful depiction of a train driver’s controls for children to enjoy pretending to have some agency.

Anne Robbins@hincmariana· Apr 5

The Silver Temple, Kyoto. Cloud pruning, bamboo forest, and cherry trees about to explode into bloom. #gardening

Foreground of heavily pruned trees. Small black and white temple building in the centre, with tall bamboo and the modern city in the background.

Anne Robbins@hincmariana· Mar 31

Kyoto. (Yes, that is equisetum.) #gardening

IA wooden walkway on the left and bamboo screens on the right enclose a raked gravel are with a little water feature surrounded closely by some mare’s tail, normally abhorred by Western gardeners.

Anne Robbins@hincmariana· Feb 26

Shouldn’t I be allowed to send obsolete products in the mail if I want to?

Anne Robbins@hincmariana· Feb 25

Okay @limebike.bsky.social time you picked up this heap obstructing the way. Coleraine Road SE3.

A bunch of drunken Lime bikes in a heap on the pavement

Anne Robbins@hincmariana· Feb 15

Double rainbow!

A bright rainbow and fainter second rainbow rise behind some classic Victorian terrace houses.

Anne Robbins@hincmariana· Feb 11

Waiting for the weekend. From the Ely Stained Glass Museum.

A man and two women dancing very frivolously with cocktails in their hands. Yellow and black stained glass. Text reads ‘This is the story of the prodigal son, who left home and wasted his inheritance in riotous living and all his companions helped him to spend it. After which he was very sorry and hungry.’

Anne Robbins@hincmariana· Feb 1

This has been a good bird weekend.

An ancient Egyptian statuette in mixed materials of an ibis, wading, with very realistic details to the legs and feet. Fitzwilliam museum, Cambridge.

Stained glass inset piece of a bird, one leg raised. Stained Glass Museum, Ely

Stained glass inset piece of a stork, one leg raised, head bent back. Is it scratching its own bottom?

Anne Robbins@hincmariana· Jan 17

Mittens #showmeyourknits By Drunk Girl Designs, on Ravelry. Not that I can knit and drink at the same time.

A pair of knitted mittens, patterned with the words ‘Cold as Fuck’.

Anne Robbins@hincmariana· Jan 10

Wassail! Sunday January 18th at 1:00pm at the East Greenwich Pleasaunce, we'll be making some noise to wake the orchard trees from winter slumber and encourage them to fruit.

Poster for the wassail: Sunday 18th January 2026, East Greenwich Pleasaunce Chevening Road SE10, 1pm-3pm, with Morrison (folk songs), Greenwich Morris, Linda Moylan and friends, Taru drumming and percussion, storytelling, mulled cider. Let's wake up those trees!

Anne Robbins@hincmariana· Dec 30

Still got quite a few leeks left. #allotmentlife

A bed of earth, with a number of leeks growing in it along with couch grass, forget-me-nots, and other uninvited guests.

Anne Robbins@hincmariana· Dec 26

Today’s walk. Not sure what we were closer to, the Charlton Asda maybe, but okay.

Rusting metal doors set in an old brick wall, graffitied with ‘Don’t give up, you’re closer than you think’.

Anne Robbins@hincmariana· Dec 19

Not quite as beautiful as Sami Tamimi’s but pretty tasty: tahini buns! #breadsky ottolenghi.co.uk/pages/recipe...

Sweet enriched dough buns with tahini and cinnamon, just out of the oven.

Anne Robbins@hincmariana· Dec 19

Even better than the book is the BBC’s wonderful audio version: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

The cover of a book, The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper

Anne Robbins@hincmariana· Dec 12

Plum tea at Tenmaru in central London, a calm haven. Thanks to Postcard Teas for the recommendation

Anne Robbins@hincmariana· Nov 10

Double corduroy. Don’t @ me, fashion police.

The lines from two different corduroy garments.

Anne Robbins@hincmariana· Nov 5

Wine marketing gone crazy: at my allotment, chard is a good thing & not a crime.

A bottle of white wine, the label showing a photo of a hatchet-faced Victorian woman and called 19 Crimes * something something * Chard.

Anne Robbins@hincmariana· Oct 26

The last of this year’s allotment cosmos, I suspect, but there will be seed to collect. It might not grow true white next year, there was pink cosmos nearby, but it’s something to look forward to.

Anne Robbins@hincmariana· Oct 18

London, No Tyrants #indivisible

Antrum people wearing inflate frog costumes and carrying signs.

Anne Robbins@hincmariana· Oct 13

Yesterday I planted Milium effusum Aureum (Bowles’ Golden Grass) to brighten a dark space in my garden. Seems to be working.