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Hope this year gets better for you, mental health issues can seriously suck when you are having to deal with other stuff too, glad to see you are back.

Flo half the time it is quicker for me to walk to & from work & I live 5 miles away from my workplace, so I know how you feel, good on you

I'm hoping to get chickens this year as we have the raw materials to make a hen house

Twelfth Night is the 5th but is considered unlucky to take them down after the 6th

belated Twelfth Night

Now I got criticised by some others for not putting up my decorations as early as others did, only to point out that I am Pagan so decorate my house on the Winter Solstice, which is traditionally early for festive decorations, as it was meant the house is meant to be decorated Christmas Eve & th...

Dave I started mine off in the house, maybe it has something to do with the humidity as well as the heat

Very good. There will be more competition next time & I have a problem with a new chaplain who forgets to turn off their computer to contend with.

I have grown peppers outdoors & have absolutely no problems with them, I'm not sure what the cultivar was but it was an F1 hybrid

Today I was at the Aston University Go Green Awards, I took on the role of Green Champion for the Chaplaincy & In my first year I got our department the Bronze YAY! I must admit I was not expecting it, but next year I want to win gold. My trophy was an ornament of a bird that was made by a local...

They gave the deadly nightshade plant the name belladonna so it is not the only poisonous plant with a more pleasant name

Bunting

Poppets

Rag dolls

Lavender pillows

Homemade jam lid covers

Dolls clothes

Fancy dress

They were once used for torture by shoving them where the sun don't shine, as many as they could get it & leave them to rot causing the person to be very ill indeed. I do not suggest anyone should revive this method or any method of torture

This year I have felt more connected with the wheel of the year, perhaps it has been because I have been more active & more available to grow stuff, which in turn has actually made summer easier for me as it when my PTSD related depression usually rears it's ugly head, but have less of it this y...

I have had some plug plants come in through the post, they are delphinium, campanula, penstemon & echinacea so are perennial I think it is a little too cold & blustery to put them out now so have put them into into seed trays with individual cells in them, one to each cell to also help them ...