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@anjibennett.bsky.social
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Mum, GP&medical educator, cellist/singer (classical, early music, folk), gardener. Loves nature and humans. Cat and chicken carer. Learning Irish, Welsh, and B/C accordion. Runs slowly, wild swims, cycles. Politics - look after the vulnerable.
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Cambridge Comhaltas Elastic Band's first ceilidh gig (I was calling; accordion skills not ready for public performance!) I survived teaching a load of KS1 children strip the willow when half of them are still bad at lefts and rights! Note to self: learn more dances with only forwards and backwards.
November 3, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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I saw this somewhere else and thought you might need to see it today.
October 27, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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I would eat this with any cheese... I just ate quite a lot with some lovely French Caprice des Dieux.
A white rectangular ceramic tray lined with baking parchment, a thick brown paste is setting in a 1cm layer, Membrillo, to go with cheese.
October 11, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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A good graphic explaining why it's easier to book a haircut than a GP appointment. #GP #NHS
September 30, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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September in the garden.
The bean harvest, these ones are beautiful.
Roses giving another display, all that pruning is worth it.
#gardening
September 4, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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These have featured already in #floweroftheday but they looked lovely in the light after the rain, and are some of my #favouritethings.
#bloomscrolling
#spreadflowersnotwar
August 2, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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#floweroftheday a teazel! The bees have been visiting but not much today because we had torrential rain and it stopped just in time for a bit of refreshing evening gardening.
#bloomscrolling #spreadflowersnotwar
A small cluster of spiky light green teazels, the foremost one has a band of tiny pink flowers around its middle.
July 19, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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It was such a treat to hear Gigspanner Big band in our home town, playing and singing some favourites of ours, including Solvay, Hard Times come again no more, What Wondrous Love is This and many joyous tunes in between!
Thankyou @johnspiers.co.uk and everyone for a great evening.
July 18, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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#floweroftheday whatever this wild carrot is in the meadow seed mix I threw around. I love the little black dot in the centre of each one.
#bloomscrolling
#spreadflowersnotwar
July 11, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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#floweroftheday helllloooo Verbena Rigida! I wish I had more of them; apparently they self seed.
#bloomscrolling
#spreadflowersnotwar
July 10, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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#floweroftheday my mum gave me this lemon tree for Christmas, and against all the odds, I've kept it alive!
The flowers smell beautiful.
#bloomscrolling
#spreadflowersnotwar
A white and pink lemon flower with a yellow stamen, close up against the plant. A small lemon tree in a pot, several pink and white flower buds at different stages of opening.
July 6, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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#Sundaymorning trip to Cadogan Hall in London with the Cambridge Phil....celli on the bus.
We are a bit too excited to be playing Peter Grimes with British Youth Opera today. Last night's show in Saffron Hall was fantastic and we can't wait to do it again!
#opera #britten #petergrimes #teamcello
July 6, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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#floweroftheday a second flush on the wisteria.
#bloomscrolling
#spreadflowersnotwar
Purple-lilac second flush wisteria flower against a wooden door Wisteria flowers amongst green leaves (you don't get that the first time around) against red bricks. Bushy wisteria growing over a wooden garage door. Close up of two wisteria flowers amongst their foliage.
July 2, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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#floweroftheday hollyhocks to you I say!
#bloomscrolling
#spreadflowersnotwar
July 1, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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#floweroftheday Oregano isn't much to look at, but the bees love it.
#bloomscrolling
#spreadflowersnotwar
June 29, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Last week's #floweroftheday, this week's first aubergine of Summer.
A shiny purple/black baby aubergine developing on a plant.
June 27, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Oh and #floweroftheday is this new jasmine on the fence which has flowered for the first time and smells gorgeous already. #spreadflowersnotwar
White jasmine flowers against a wooden fence
June 27, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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The problem with having your morning coffee in the garden, is noticing the deadheading and weeding you ought to be doing. 😊
A messy garden table with peeling green paint, on it is a bowl of pink/purple frozen fruit mixed with yoghurt and an iced coffee in a glass mug. A chipped blue teapot houses some parsley seedlings. The backdrop is a chaotic herb garden which needs weeding.
June 27, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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#floweroftheday there's no point photographing night scented stocks in the day, as they kind of shrivel up. The petals unfurl at the same time as the glorious smell comes out.
These ones managed not to be the slugs' dinner.
#spreadflowersnotwar
June 26, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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#floweroftheday is this water lily in the small pond on the roof garden of the Catholic Chaplaincy, taken after a Corpus Christi blessing.
#spreadflowersnotwar
A cream-white water lily blossom with a yellow centre in a small raised pond, surrounded by green leaves.
June 22, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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#floweroftheday is this mallow flower in our wild patch.
#spreadflowersnotwar
A bright pink and purple delicate flower with five spreading petals and a central white stamen, in a cluster of its green leaves.
June 21, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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#floweroftheday let's hear it for the humble aubergine, whose flowers are surprisingly beautiful. I have yet to get an aubergine to sprout from seed(how do you do it, people who can?)so I bought this grafted plant from Waitrose of all places and managed to keep it alive so far.
#spreadflowersnotwar
A bright pink delicate aubergine flower with orange stamens, with another flower developing above it on the plant.
June 20, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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#floweroftheday needs to take off on here as well. God knows we need a few more tiny specks of joy.
Here is my first pink sweetpea of the season.
Let's spread flowers, not war.
A cluster of pink sweet pea flowers with a sunny evening in the garden as the backdrop.
June 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Watering-time on the GP surgery team allotment. Nice to be here as the skylarks and swifts go to bed and then the bats come out.
Marigolds almost glow in the dark.
Sound track - "Last Mile Home" by @jonboden.bsky.social
Sunset over the allotment; bean poles in the foreground. Bright orange marigolds glow on green foliage.
June 17, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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You need a tiny speck of joy in the midst of it all, so here is some stuff growing in my garden.
Juneberries we share with the birds.
Our first ever ripening fig.
Oxeye daisy in the wild patch.
Close up of some ripening juneberries, red, purple and green. The sky is beginning to turn to dusk. Close up of a fig which will probably be ripe in a few weeks. The background is unfortunately full of bindweed. An oxeye daisy with greenery in the background.
June 8, 2025 at 8:04 PM