😄 it’s brilliant. Jane Austen next. Then Trollope.
Of course all the stories get horribly muddled in my head, but who cares!

Lovely!

I’ve been listening to the entire works of Dickens - mainly because I realised I’m just not going to have enough time to read them even if I live to a ripe old age. Of course they were written to be read aloud and are full of fantastic characters for whom I never would have found adequate voices

So much profound beauty in our world. But it seems the forces unable to see beyond their own wealth, power, and egos are in the ascendant right now.

It's our duty to mind ourselves and each other in these tough times, which may well get much worse. The living world depends on us never giving up. 🌍

I find crabs generally hard to impress

Sound up for slomo bumbling and birdsong

Froggery croakery

We might yearn for paradise, temporal or spiritual. But to our descendents our habitable planet will look like an almost unimaginable paradise. No tech fantasy, no space station or controlled environment will ever compare.
Fight for what we have. This is our heaven, and there can be no other.

Hello! Hope all is well with you!

A little trip to Painswick Rococo Garden to celebrate snowdrop time

Oh no I’m so sorry Gary. You both tried so hard. And even through the filter of social media we could see that you LOVED each other. I’m so sorry for your loss.

Good luck! 🤞

Ooft. All fingers crossed for you both

A bored vicar?

I hope you’re right 🥱😱🙂

St Edwards, Stow-on-the-Wold. That door gets a lot of visitors, partly because it is claimed to have inspired Tolkien’s Doors of Durin.

How the hell are people supposed to thrive on such non-food?

Yes Threads was never more than The School of Clickbait.

A favourite walk yesterday with a screaming ash confined above beautiful Chastleton house, ridge-and-furrow fields, curious sheep and a beech cathedral with gargoyles

That’s one of my all-time favourites

Good lord, people! It's hoar frost, not whore frost. #hoarfrost

Exactly. You would think everyone would do that but they don’t.

And there are lots of bots that do have photos - mostly American or pretending to be. I can’t believe so many people follow back without checking out the profile.

Nope. When we bought our house the whole interior was in those Angel Delight colours and it was depressing. I’m still working on eradicating them.

Yes but she is a genius.
Most of us would have made a dull garden with those colours.

I refuse to have a beige year, whatever they call it! We’re only just getting away from everything being grey… 😬

Hmmm. Looks a bit like beige…

Day 24 of my Advent calendar. Happy Christmas to you all from me and my tiny garden angel

Charles Dahl's
Dickens Chickens

Day 23 of my Advent calendar. Some unseasonal/seasonal red and green in the garden. No wonder we crave those colours in the winter gloom!