Picked the last of the tomatoes as the plants are dying now. Hoping the green ones will ripen in the sun, but if not they'll be used up in curries, casserols, pasta sauces etc. Waste not, want not! #homegrown #GrowYourOwn #organic #gardening
Linda Daunter
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Still don't know what I want to do when I'm grown up. In the meantime, I write short stories, flash fiction & unfinished novels, draw, paint, take photos, garden, daydream and dance when nobody's watching. 📍NW England 🚫NO AI 🚫DMs - I can't read them!
Find someone who cherishes you like you're the last radish in Aiden's garden.
Three days to go for @northwildlife.bsky.social to raise £30M to buy the Rothbury Estate. Impressively, they've secured over £27M in donations & pledges. But that still leaves a shortfall. I can only hope they're given more time by the seller. Or that he waives the difference. You can chip in here:
Donate to Secure The Rothbury Estate | The Wildlife Trusts
Stretching over 3,800 hectares, the Rothbury Estate in Northumberland is abundant with opportunity. It’s the largest continuous area of land to appear on the market in 50 years. Its sale creates a uni...
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This is a good one. I could see it all! #FlashFiction
Free Flash Fiction@freeflashfiction.bsky.social · 2w agoAs Chosen by Judge Kate Axeford @kateaxeford.bsky.social FFF Competition Thirty-Five Shortlisted: Michelangelo of Morecambe by Chris Cottom @chriscottom.bsky.social #writingcompetitions #flashfiction freeflashfiction.com/fiction/comp...
Yes, it is worth all the work to grow your own. Courgettes (zucchini) are coming to an end now, but still lots of tomatoes ripening in my small greenhouse. #gardening #homegrown #organic #vegetables
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Who wouldn't want clothes made from #sunflowers? 🌻🧥🌻👕🌻👗🌻🧦🌻
elizab3th@eoehwright.bsky.social · 4w ago#artists - A future materials bank…! I read about this in the book Let’s Get Fungal. More abt that perhaps later. Starting my materials visit with the sunflower. #bloomscrolling www.futurematerialsbank.com/material/sun...
Welsh gravy! My mum only made Bisto gravy but when my Welsh grandmother visited she offered to help with the Sunday lunch by making 'proper' gravy. She showed me how to do it, so that became my job every Sunday for years afterwards!
Barry Ryerson@barryryerson.bsky.social · 4w agoWhat was the first thing you remember cooking?
Very successful exhibition - £772 raised for charity - and I was so pleased to be able to come home with one of Mike's original drawings.
Linda Daunter@lindadaunter.bsky.social · last mo.Will you be in the Preston area next Saturday? This is where I'll be. #ArtExhibition #Hutton #Preston #Lancashire
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Time to dust off those #submissions! The Nook is opening a little earlier than previously announced. Our next reading period will run September 15–October 15, coinciding with the release of our Sept. issue. 🦉✨ A note: #micropoetry & #haiku subs are now limited to five pieces per reading period.
i know it's #1stSeptember and the wind is a bit chilly, but here's proof that summer isn't over yet - at least not in my garden! #roses #flowers
And now for something completely different... Excerpts from the Punch & Judy show run by teenager, William Vaughan, at Donhead St Andrew's BH fete, yesterday. What cracking puppets... #PunchandJudy
Will you be in the Preston area next Saturday? This is where I'll be. #ArtExhibition #Hutton #Preston #Lancashire
After much practising and faffing about, I've finally sent a postcard painting to Winsor & Newton's ArtMail. www.winsornewton.com/pages/artmail And as it was based on a photo I took of my little granddaughter last #summer I think it might also do for this week's #BlueSkyArtShow #watercolour
As a writer my biggest fear is that I might accidentally copy another writer's plot/ character/ style. As a reader I love finding something different/ unlike anything else I've read. This article only makes me more determined to get my novel accepted by an #IndiePublisher ! #booksky #Writesky
The Guardian@theguardian.com · last mo.How to make a bestseller: insiders reveal the tricks of the book trade
Enjoyed today's #LunchtimeRead from a writer and magazine I hadn't come across before. Wonderful descriptions: "The free facelift that comes with Madame's tight top knot gives her the Cheshire Cat's fixed grin but none of his charm." #FlashFiction www.vestalreview.net/begin-again
Begin Again — Vestal Review
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Without territorial rights, Indigenous Peoples and local communities’ homes are being plundered by extractive industries like illegal gold and nickel mining. We don’t have time to wait.
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Today's #LunchtimeRead brought back memories. Oh, how I galloped when I was a girl! (and I can still manage a trot when nobody's watching 😉) fictivedream.com/2026/08/17/m...
Microfiction #70
Hoofbeats by Tracy Fells The tiny hoofprints appeared overnight. I tracked them in the stagnant dust, alongside dog-eared pony-filled paperbacks, fading rosettes, and down to the bottom shelf where…
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Did you hear about our Flash Prize? Send us 500-1000 words. Cash prizes for the top 3. Special edition anthology publication, plus a free print copy, for the shortlist. Feedback available on request. Let's go! viridineliterary.wixsite.com/viridinelit/...
Well, it's a start ... Here's hoping he stops considering and actually does it! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Laura Phillips@lauraphillips.bsky.social · 2mo agoPolitics UK: 🚨 BREAKING: Andy Burnham says he’s considering banning disposable BBQs amid the constant UK wildfires
Yes, of course I tap gently on the shed door to warn the BIG spider that I'm coming in. This gives it time to quietly hide away before I open the door. If I forget, it leaps up in fright which makes me leap even higher! #spiders #gardening #HorrorStory
