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Morning all. See it's another fine day of international shittery! I'll be finding some small wins somewhere and pretendingthat everything's fine to get me thru.

Hope everyone is OK.

Look forward to reading about your #gardens . Apparently our first tulips are thru at home. Well - that's great news.

#Gardening
#gardens #Gardening
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gardening is still a distant dream here in my part of Canada, but at least I CAN dream. And eating a bit of the fruits of my last season's labours that I dole out bit by bit from my treasure chest (freezer).

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JimmyB (he/him)
That's great, right? Love a freezer!

We have 3 right now, coz we batch cook (bread - sliced fresh, with greaseproof between, to go straight in the toaster; whatever meals we make and then - same: loads of fruit and veg in season).

The missus thinks that, with all the fruit trees we planted recently, we should get a 4th freezer. I wonder if we should just invest in an industrial freezer unit on the local trade estate :)😜
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That is AWESOME! I've a beginner at all this, and I have a tiny yard so can't grow all that much, but I am learning! And I bake bread almost daily, but don't have the strength to kneed, so I cheat and use a bread machine.
Tell the missus I fully support her fourth freezer ambitions! What kind of fruit trees? Might want to can some of that rather than freezing it all. My biggest yield is from my sea buckthorn bushes, but they are a royal pain to pick (no joke about the "thorn" part of their name).

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We've just put in a 10m metal pergola with 24 fruit trees / bushes (apples, pears, plum, mirabelle, damson, red, black pink currants, gooseberry): will take a few years to really establish but fingers crossed.

I'm a novice too but an enthusiastic one...
A black metal pergola set in a curve, in a small garden with small whip fruit trtees planted along both sides, seaweed mulch around each base, with houses beyond and a willow hedge covering 2 plastic kayaks to the left.
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that is AMAZING!!!!!!!!
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well..thank you! It’s a project but so engaging. My son has left home - he’s the eternal student - so I don’t have to listen to him telling me I have to have a lawn any more… so I won’t!

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😆 I love puttering and learning, but sadly my efforts are often limited by my health and by wildfire smoke which we seem to be blanketed by every year. Yeah, I can do a bit while masked, but it’s still a struggle. Thankfully my daughter has never lived where we’ve had a lawn, so she doesn’t complain about the absence! And we have her trampoline mostly surrounded by bushes now, so it’s almost like a little privacy arbor! 😆
JimmyB (he/him)
yeah - I cannot imagine having to live with the smoke. That it has been normalised is insane. Love the private trampoline tho.

When the kids were at home a lawn was great: we used to play Kub a lot. And for some reason I think my son thought it made us proper and less weird.

Well… he’s 23 so hmmm. If he wants a lawn he can get his own place!
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well that seals the deal then. If having a lawn makes us proper and less weird, I hereby resolve to never, ever get one. 😆 Let’s un-normalize lawns!

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good morning! Another day surviving in the shitegeist. I had a farm field walk in the rain and a coffee at the local coffee shop for my little wins.

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So I went to Agrippina last night: thanks for the tip. It was fantastic. Loved the humour. Loved the plot complexity. Loved the music. I don't remember ever hearing a countertenor before, and they had 3! Ottone (Jakub Józef Orliński ) was just extraordinary! What. A. Voice! Nerone (Christophe Dumaux) wasn't rubbish!

And full ovation at the end. What a performance: thank you.
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I’m so glad you enjoyed it. I was worried you would hate it. I’m not much of an opera connoisseur, but I’ve been to a bunch over the years and generally enjoy going.

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Ditto: I am definitely no connoisseur so I need the music and theatre of it to be accessible - as opposed to some wanky director's self indulgence.

I thought this was fabulous...

Despite being a fairly militant atheist, I also go to the Art and Music Vespers service at the Johanneskirche on a Tuesday night (https://johannes-kirche.ch/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2502_Dienstagsvesper_0117_2.pdf) because the god bit is all in German which I understand 1 word in 10 of, but they have fantastic free music most weeks. Missed Bach last night sadly...
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