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Roy&Tanya

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Simple #allotment folk twice a week #nodig. UK/RU. Workaholics. R: flyfishing, opinionated, wood butcherer. T: gentle and frugal homemaker/baker. NE UK, very old house by the beach. #sourdough #soilhealth #biodiversity #regenerative #GYO #Bees #Renovation

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Roy&Tanya @royandtanyaorganic.bsky.social · Jun 30

What's not to like?

8pm gone and they're all still hard at it 🌱

#Lavender #Bees #Gardeninglife

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Roy&Tanya @royandtanyaorganic.bsky.social · 7h

Thankfully the furthest I've flown is Houston (West) just 2wks after 9/11 which was awful. Collecting baggage at gunpoint not recommended. Furthest East was MRV in Southern Russia which took 26hrs.. another story 👎

Fair winds!

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Roy&Tanya @royandtanyaorganic.bsky.social · 7h

Strewth!

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Roy&Tanya @royandtanyaorganic.bsky.social · 7h

24 hrs? How is that possible? Clients from NZ visited us in the UK and it was (from memory) 18-20.

I hope that you're not flying kangaroo airways again. I'm guessing Sydney to Cairo with stops.... ?

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Roy&Tanya @royandtanyaorganic.bsky.social · 8h

Best to be safe! Have a good flight and if we don't hear from you.... Have a good un.

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Roy&Tanya @royandtanyaorganic.bsky.social · 11h

wow! yes. Did you see the May 10th Aurora, 2024 also. It was a big event here and right overhead also. I couldn't come back indoors, it was just amazing

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Roy&Tanya @royandtanyaorganic.bsky.social · 12h

We leave the vines up in the greenhouses every year - usually until the end of Nov. We have little that doesn't ripen tbh. Quality is not so good in Nov - granted - but they're fine for freezing.

photos are November Toms 2024

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Roy&Tanya @royandtanyaorganic.bsky.social · 13h

but don't you find/feel that it destroys the protein in the flour?

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Roy&Tanya @royandtanyaorganic.bsky.social · 18h

#OTD 1 year ago (well, this evening, to be precise) this happened..

not in the distance, on the Northern horizon, but immediately above us and in the East, West, North, South. The corona was directly overhead. #NorthernLights #Aurora Absolutely stunning. #NYorks

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Deborah Burn @allotmentnews.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you National Allotment Society for producing Allotment Christmas Cards, that’s me sorted well in advance.
These are a v limited edition to test the market. There is a calendar too, photos of best plots.
Email orders only, details in comments.

Christmas card pack, illustrated with cartoon vegetables with faces, on an allotment. The greeting is a pun stating “Have An Unbeetable Christmas”

Back of a Christmas card pack, text says Unbeetable Christmas. 10 cards with envelopes. The greeting inside these cards reads blooming wishes for a joyful Christmas and a fruitful new year! The National Allotment Society. National Society of Allotment and Leisure Gardeners Ltd. Patron King Charles II.

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Roy&Tanya @royandtanyaorganic.bsky.social · 1d

amazing!!

Roy&Tanya @royandtanyaorganic.bsky.social · 1d

interesting article on Zack Polanski 💚

Explains the facts behind the name change at age 18. 👍
www.bigissue.com/news/politic...

Zack Polanski on making Starmer more scared of the Greens than Reform

Zack Polanski hopes to become the next leader of the Green Party. He believes success lies in offering a left-wing challenge to Reform.

www.bigissue.com

Roy&Tanya @royandtanyaorganic.bsky.social · 2d

A few followers will recognise this reclaimed area of our second #allotment.

Just look at the Dahlias 🌱 now, in their glory and attracting a serious amount of pollinators, especially ground #bees.

18C and sunny here in North Yorks. Bring it on! 👋👍

Excuse the wheelbarrow, it's an heirloom..

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Roy&Tanya @royandtanyaorganic.bsky.social · 2d

so many varieties performing really well for us this year. Have backed off the watering of course but 18C outside here in NYorks today. A second succession in the polytunnel is doing great. From now on in, this is the start of our freezing time, but we're still eating fresh Toms 🌱 every day.

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Roy&Tanya @royandtanyaorganic.bsky.social · 2d

US followers will be mystified, but tonight we joined the Green Party.

Feel free to unfollow 😘

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Roy&Tanya @royandtanyaorganic.bsky.social · 2d

"Reporting from Bradford (UK) where #StormAmy caused more than a million pounds of improvements"

😂

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uanW...

The British Public React To STORM AMY! 💨😅 FUNNY INTERVIEWS | Full Video | (Veo 3)

YouTube video by Artificial Idiots

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Roy&Tanya @royandtanyaorganic.bsky.social · 2d

Winter salad greens 🌱 are away nicely. To be transplanted into greenhouses when the fruiting veg comes out in late November

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Roy&Tanya @royandtanyaorganic.bsky.social · 2d

< How it started, some carrots sown between Korean Mint and Marigolds and Chard 🌱 - in an attempt to thwart bad nematodes on the carrots.

How it's going >
Jungle

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Roy&Tanya @royandtanyaorganic.bsky.social · 3d

Not bothered about that place. You know, we read it to get relevant positive news on Ukraine situation. This place, based on our selection, is either positive - gardening, etc or ICE, Trump, etc which we then filter out. I could name 20 wonderful a/c's who've fallen silent and for the same reasons

Roy&Tanya @royandtanyaorganic.bsky.social · 3d

hmmm, we're not getting any of that. Not had a follower in 3 days lol. Too boring see!!! People don't like 5 (veg photos) a day 😂

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Roy&Tanya @royandtanyaorganic.bsky.social · 3d

It is quiet, but I can't agree tbh. We've been very selective on who we follow back. We follow few and have had to mute a few daft accounts who persist - as if they were still on the other place. Historically, some lovely interactions with folks who've now been scared off this place too. anyways....

Roy&Tanya @royandtanyaorganic.bsky.social · 3d

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Roy&Tanya @royandtanyaorganic.bsky.social · 3d

But it's gone quiet, so many lovely accounts have gone silent. Some folks clammering for followers, following and then those folks follow back without looking at their bios or history of posting. Human nature I guess..... I'd rather interact with a few trusted.. like your good self 🙄

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Roy&Tanya @royandtanyaorganic.bsky.social · 3d

It's so quiet on here at the moment. Information overload I expect; too much negative news being posted & reposted about. I thought that was why folks had left Twitter?

We're off to the #allotment tomorrow, our Happy Place. To tend some plants 🌱, to harvest and to chill.

Blue skies folks 👋

Our vegetable garden, plots 33(L) and 34(R). Our happy place, twice a week. A central path punctuates the plots, a tap for watering and some greenhouses and sheds.

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Roy&Tanya @royandtanyaorganic.bsky.social · 3d

yeah, we were all putting on our slightly thicker shorts

Roy&Tanya @royandtanyaorganic.bsky.social · 4d

so much more light for you and a modicum of solar gain. At home for us, the rear garden has lost the Sun now and we can't move the house. However, the allotment garden is bathed in Sun year round, even at it it's lowest at the end of the year. Salute to your Tomatoes 👋