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#SilentSunday

The Art and The Artist.

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Bountiful stone harvest from one of the veg beds this year.

(I know how we ended up with so much stone in the area - a former owner was a stonemason and used it as a store/dumping ground before it grassed over - but I'm surprised how many large stones were still digging up after four years of growing in there...)

#GrowYourOwn #gardening

This stream in our field had dried up last summer by the time Rosey developed her water splashing obsession, and the greenery that grew then camouflaged its return. She discovered it this morning. Might need a second carpet cleaner.

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That moment when you're casually chatting to a stranger about current affairs and both making similar noises about what should happen, but then you suddenly realise you're coming at it from opposite sides of the political spectrum 😬

This week has felt like a taste of summer.

I've pottered in shorts & flip flops most days this week, we've had pleasant evening walks in the evenings, ice lollies on the sun loungers after spurts of gardening, and we went swimming today (first outdoor swim of the year).

I know The Rain is due again this coming week but this has been nice.

Our ward elected three Reform candidates. My first thought was "great, everyone around me is a selfish bigot" but then I looked at the actual voting numbers.

The Labour + Green vote FAR exceeded the Reform vote, even Reform + Conservative. The two Labour incumbents were only narrowly beaten (something like 30 votes, with the winner getting 2400 votes).

We lost, but they're not the majority. Considerably more people didn't want them than did.

I've got to hold on to that thought.

For our annual Scotland spring roadtrip, I'd been thinking about a return to the Western Isles, with a focus on the southern end, but the ferry shenanigans of late has put me off. Sigh.

Now trying to decide where to go instead. Kintyre and Islay perhaps (new ferry permitting)? Or the west coast above Ullapool? Decisions, decisions.

@felicitymartin@mastodon.scot - you don't happen to have a new book coming out soon that would plan our whole trip for me, do you?? 😀 That was so convenient last year!