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Wabi Sabi “Happy Accident” is my favourite Bonsai. Looking better all the time. Crown filling out nicely and leaves are well reduced. 😊

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Wisteria and Tulips @nationaltrust.org.uk Biddulph Grange Gardens Staffordshire @evroadtrip.bsky.social

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Lilac flowering well this year and wisteria arch coming along nicely too.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

I wonder if there is a Japanese word for a “happy accident”? This Bonsai was never meant to look this way. It once had a nice crown but fell from the bench in a storm. Many broken branches 😢, but I gave it a chance. I quite like its knobbly, windswept look. And the leaves have reduced nicely now.

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

@seabrkei.bsky.social Just had my eBay alert show a “Fortunate Situation” book available. £68! 😳 I would like a copy but not paying that much.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

It's time to dump the pump ⛽️❌ Filling up with £30 petrol = about 200 miles of range. For the same £30/month using EV smart charging = UNLIMITED miles for the entire month. Introducing Intelligent Drive Pack.

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

EV’s eh? 🙄 Only 3 years old, hardly used and I’ve had to replace the batteries.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

@evroadtrip.bsky.social @kaukonenville.bsky.social @seabrkei.bsky.social How are you? You seem to have dropped off my timeline recently.

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

Anyone have any Heat Pump Service & Maintenance Plan recommendations in North Staffs? Installer has let me down 3 times now for routine servicing so lost confidence in them. Mitsubishi plan is £483 a year !! What?!

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

Time to give up on this Malus Bonsai 😢 Over 10 years old, trunk and branch structure ok but it’s constantly plagued by pests and the leaves will just not reduce.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Hornbeam, Oak and Birch. #Bonsai

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Bonsai definitely requires patience. I grew this oak from an acorn, one of 8 collected from a tree outside the Bentley factory in Crewe around the Millennium. This is the first year it has had more than a dozen leaves. Just needs to thicken up a bit now.

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Ways to accept a cup of tea 1. “Only if you're having one” 2. <check watch> “Go on then” 3. “I wouldn’t say no” 4. “Ooh yes please” 5. “I’m gasping” 6. “You read my mind” 7. Respond to “tea?” by saying “tea” 8. “I’ll make it” 9. “Best idea you’ve had all day” 10. Stating milk/sugar preference

submitted 21 days ago • 25 comments

56p kWh any ev charging. And still no queues, even on Bank Holiday Monday lunchtime in a city. New Model Y here. Plaid badge?

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Egg on toast for breakfast.

submitted 26 days ago • 10 comments

That time of year when Bonsai look just right. Silver Birch, 30+ years old originally taken from a guttering at Rolls-Royce Crewe factory. Had a tap root 2ft long.

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Nice new bench outside the Geological Gallery at Biddulph Grange Garden @nationaltrust.org.uk I can see me making good use of that during lulls in my volunteering shift.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Some info on Ripple @rippleenergy.bsky.social Derril Water solar farm situation provided by a fellow investor on X. Have any other investors had any direct contact from this co-op? I haven’t. www.southwestfarmer.co.uk/news/2505521...

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

If you're up before dawn over the next couple of weeks, a planetary delight awaits you in the east: Saturn, Mercury, and Venus all huddled together! Words by me: www.cntraveler.com/story/planet... 🔭🧪

submitted 33 days ago • 4 comments

Offsetting is purely a con trick to try and suggest that we don't all need to change lifestyles and carry on as we are. It's just smoke and mirrors.

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

@oburbidge.bsky.social Ripple Community is back, log in to Ripple as normal. Good that 1st Energy have reinstated this. “we will shortly release an offer to you as Ripple Customers to give you surety and are putting safe guards in place to ensure that you are not put in this position again.”

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

Latest from 1st Energy regarding previously Ripple Energy assets. “we will shortly release an offer to you as Ripple Customers to give you surety and are putting safe guards in place to ensure that you are not put in this position again.” I hope it’s an offer to buy my shares. I want out..

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

After selling just 3,120 cars in China last year, Polestar says that it is refocusing efforts to prioritize other markets. insideevs.com/news/756388/...

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

@nationaltrust.org.uk Bodnant Gardens.

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

I’ve been struggling a bit lately, I’m naturally introverted, takes much personal effort to overcome this. I’m a National Trust volunteer guide one morning a week. A visitor asked me if I was or had been a teacher and he wished he had had a teacher like me.. I won today. I’ll win another day..

submitted 36 days ago • 5 comments

community.rippleenergy.com Any worried Ripple Energy investors? This on the Community Page today, seems 1st Energy have bought them out. What next ? 🤷🏼‍♂️

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

I’ve had a go at photographing the moon previously with mixed results. Last night I took these images. Skywatcher P130 🔭 iPhone 13 with adapter 📱 Moon filter 🌒

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

Looking to buy one of these, a walking stick holder for a mobility scooter. £23 best price anywhere. My Dad would have made one while I was making us a cup of tea.. Things that make us miss our late parents 😔

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