Good Morning - the pretty little Forget-Me-Nots 🩵🩷💙

You know when a bee 🐝 has visited … the yellow pollen filled💛 centre turns white 🤍

#wildflowers #botany #mygarden

Pears...

Kytayskyi Lihtaryk, Tavryska, Charodiyna and Portuguese Black Pear.

No i haven’t - where did you find that gem?

2025 was a perry good year! Everything in the bottles is alive and well (hopefully). The only drawback is having the patience to wait!

Except that I feel the Iranian people’s hopes are in ruins because of Trump, the best he can and will do is run away, leaving the mess behind. No other options available to him. tragic

TACO because Iran wont negotiate and he hates it that they have refused to come. Outta cards and busted

A small but important piece of memorabilia. I have a first day cover letter and mugs but this is the first poster of the ‘73 Hereford Cider festival I have found. In great condition thankfully. #cider #history #Hereford

wonderful

So its plain that the US Admin. is actively supporting russia’s war against Ukraine. Dismayed.

all about getting the most from your pears. Enjoyed reading; makes me want to taste some, but it’s a little early in the day.

Adam beside the trunk of what we call the Helden tree. With a beaker of Perry made from that tree.

Adam and Caroline drinking Grüney J Perry in our front yard.

Adam and Caroline on a meadow beside Bayerische Weinbirne trees and drinking the perry from them.

And finally, Adam and Anu beside the huge oldest pear tree in the village.

I have not been checking in for the past couple of days as we had special visitors. My friends Adam and Caroline Wells. Adam wrote the only book in existence dedicated to the wonderful drink that is Perry. So of course we were visiting special pear trees in blossom and drinking what I made from them

Lovely looking perry trees there!

Hoping the people vote for liberation from Orban and russia

key is the phrase “as salary”, where salary is legal wage for ordinary folk. But the other benefits etc ….

let it be so!

Pear blossom

And Iran is not in the North Atlantic either

Just because a President announces he’s agreed to a two week ceasefire moments before he threatened to commit war crimes, does not mean he is suddenly fit to serve. #25thAmendment

I dont think the solution is the 25th. Because this admin as a whole is a danger. Maybe it is a start but really Congress needs to remove the Trump admin root and branch including the VP and Mike Johnson. I dont expect that to happen. Is there no way in US for an admin to fall/early elections?

BREAKING: There it is. 2 week extension. TACO.

TACO’d thank goodness. 2 weeks. But US Congress needs to step up and remove Trump
from office any way - he is a danger to everyone

Will the military refuse to obey Trump’s order?

All too little too late. We can only hope that TACO applies or else this ends in tragedy. So unnecessary!

The USA will do nothing to stop him from carrying out his threat to commit an attack on civilisation - unless Trump climbs down (i hope so) if he follows through it will be a disgrace which will stain him and the USA for a v long time

He be the best President of Heard Island

Earth and Moon from DSCOVR NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured this unique view of the Moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of Earth last month. This view shows the fully illuminated “dark side” of the moon that is never visible from Earth. Ian Regan processed this version of the image to account for the Moon's motion. NASA / NOAA / Ian Regan

I hadn't seen this before. This is pretty remarkable.

Earth and Moon in one NASA photo.

ht @astrokatie.com

This is the only narcissus i want on here today. Happy Easter!

Cider Drinkers are Conservationists. Aren’t They? Barry reflects on cider’s role in conservation, highlighting the connection between consumer choices and orchard preservation, biodiversity and cultural heritage.

Barry (@barmas.bsky.social) reflects on cider’s role in conservation, highlighting the connection between consumer choices and orchard preservation, biodiversity and cultural heritage.

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