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Jen Mac @jen-m-a-c.bsky.social · 4d

In this week’s six on sat - the dahlias are as smashing as the genial host of a light entertainment darts show, the chlorophyll fades to carotenoid as the leaves go orange, and the hot lips are in full bloom.

#SixonSaturday #BloomScrolling #Flowers #Garden #Blog #dahlia #smashing
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A bunch of garden flowers, with a big frilly pink and white dahlia, deep purple cosmos flowers, and pale purple daisies. The flowers are in a brown clay pot, on a dark wooden table.

Collage of garden flowers - with a closeup of the pink umbelliferous heads of sedum flowers, daisies with yellow centres and lilac petals, a rich purple clematis with three big, slightly wet flowers, a close up of hotlip salvia flowers, that resemble ladies dancing in red and white skirts, the autumn colours of the leaves of a sumac tree and a bunch of garden flowers with a big pink and white dahlia

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Jen Mac @jen-m-a-c.bsky.social · 11d

#SixonSaturday #GardenBlog

This week's highlights include bellflower, pirouette rose, spring bulbs, a tidyish greenhouse, a ladybird and magic conkers. Plus the old roman road under Frome Town centre.

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Garden montage with purple bellflower, a pink rose, a wooden chair in a small greenhouse, planting spring bulbs, a ladybird and some acorns and conkers.

A blurry image from the Frome Tunnels tunnel of the old Roman road underneath the town centre.

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Jen Mac @jen-m-a-c.bsky.social · 13d

More reasons that Artificial Intelligence sucks sprang to mind after an unsuccessful chat with a particularly chirpy and idiotic bot and ongoing news.

Reasons AI sucks. Stealing words, knowing nothing, discourages thinking, boils oceans, infests discourse, capitalist extraction.

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A notepad and pencil, handwritten note: Reasons AI sucks. Stealing words, knowing nothing, discourages thinking, boils oceans, infests discourse, capitalist extraction. Full text on blog.
Reasons AI can fuck off

1. Stealing all the words

2. Knowing fuck all

3. Over confidence

4. Incapable of true understanding

5. Encourages lazy thinking

6. Discourages thinking

7. High social cost, low social value

8. Boils the oceans

9. Infests public discourse

10. Capitalist extraction

Close up of a ladybird, red with black spots, by a pond in a garden in somerset

A grey squirrel on a green lawn, in a lush garden.

Jen Mac @jen-m-a-c.bsky.social · Aug 2

Anemones and wood speckled butterfly in my #SixOnSaturday #gardenblog #August #wildlifegarden doingtheplan.com/2025/08/02/s...

Six on Saturday, Sumac, anemone, geranium, apples, pondlife, and speckled wood

There was a clump of anemones here when we arrived, and although they’re too big for the space I expect them to be there forever, and don’t mind that at all.

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Jen Mac @jen-m-a-c.bsky.social · Jul 27

Damselflies and waterlily in this weeks blog

The damselfly has a remarkably complex sex life

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#Gardenblog #SixonSaturday #Betterlatethannever #Damselfly #Waterlily #Wildlifepond

A close up image of a waterlily and damselflies on a pond. Two damselflies are linked in a heart shape on a lilypad.

Two damselflies on a lilypad, forming a loop while they are mating. One is blue and the other is pale green. They have big black shiny eyes and delicate wings.

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Jen Mac @jen-m-a-c.bsky.social · Jul 11

Hiya! Here's a peacock butterfly visiting a buddliea bush. #BloomScrolling #butterfly

A buddleia flower on a green bush in a garden, with a colourful peacock butterfly

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Jen Mac @jen-m-a-c.bsky.social · Jun 7

#SixonSaturday Garden blogging fun times with bees and birds, and roses and a question about the flowering habits of yukka

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Six on Saturday, bees, birds, horsey, James Galway and yukka buds

A selection of garden highlights on a soggy Saturday. With bees, birds, roses, and a question about the flowering habits of yukka.

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Jen Mac @jen-m-a-c.bsky.social · Jan 23

Surely vacuum tubes are the ideal burrito distribution system? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumat...

Pneumatic tube - Wikipedia

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Jen Mac @jen-m-a-c.bsky.social · Jan 23

The Frome Saxonvale town centre redevelopment will be community led. Good news for Frome and hopefully a chance to show what community led projects can achieve to revitalise town centres putting community before profit. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Frome residents win five-year battle for community-led housing project

Mayday Saxonvale scheme is given the go-ahead after an extraordinary meeting of Somerset council executive

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Jen Mac @jen-m-a-c.bsky.social · Jan 23

🐝 a bit of good news for bees, flowers, fruit, honey and ecosystems...

Jack Wallington @jackwallington.com · Jan 23

Big news - finally Britain is doing what it says it is going to do, rather than going backward on harmful pesticides. For background info, this pesticide was recommended only for emergency use, but non-organic growers kept requesting "emergency use" every single year.

Soil Association @thesoilassociation.bsky.social · Jan 23

BREAKING NEWS - for the first time, emergency use of Cruiser SB - which contains the bee-killing neonicotinoid thiamethoxam has NOT been approved! 🐝

#SaveTheBees

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Jen Mac @jen-m-a-c.bsky.social · Jan 4

Perhaps humans might be the problem?

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Jen Mac @jen-m-a-c.bsky.social · Dec 3

Today I learned that Cercidiphyllum japonicum is called Candyfloss tree because when the leaves turn in autumn, they smell of burnt sugar.
#thicktrunkTuesday
Thanks to @lindacdolan.bsky.social #Trees

Linda @lindacdolan.bsky.social · Dec 3

Good morning! Today I have Tour Guide training with our wonderful tree enthusiast Jonathan at #Wisley. This is one of Wisley’s Champion trees, a Cercidiphyllum japonicum or Candyfloss tree because when the leaves turn in autumn, they smell of burnt sugar. #thicktrunkTuesday. 🌱

A free trunk that has great character with a surface that looks like it has been folded and pleated.

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treeshepherd.bsky.social @treeshepherd.bsky.social · Dec 3

good morning treepeople and happy #thicktrunktuesday

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Jen Mac @jen-m-a-c.bsky.social · Dec 3

#forestry works on a different timescale, but it can also be surprisingly quick to establish a new forest. One of my favourites is at Vallis Veg, where SharedEarthLearning.org holds forest school, and the forest is less than 20 years old. youtu.be/KxcgBz3-VE0?...

Agroforestry: The Benefits of Growing Trees on Farms, Wood For The Trees #7

YouTube video by Wood For The Trees

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Paul Murphy @murphypr.bsky.social · Dec 3

"Supernatural Oak!"

Happy #ThickTrunkTuesday :-)

#Trees
#Nature
#Woodland

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Jen Mac @jen-m-a-c.bsky.social · Dec 3

For #ThickTrunkTuesday - an oak tree in the Bishops Palace Garden in Wells, England #Trees - and a film on continuous cover forestry showing at the Forestry Conference tomorrow in Westminster.
woodforthetrees.uk are films on the future for UK forests & I'm happy to have helped produce this series.

Woman in jeans and a red top stands with outstretched arms in front of a large oak tree in a beautiful garden on a sunny day.

Two men stand in a forest that contains trees of varied species and ages. the forest is managed using continuous cover forestry principles.

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Big Bearded Spookteller @bigbeardybooks.bsky.social · Dec 2

Starter Pack for independent bookshops some of who also run lots of local events

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Brigit Strawbridge @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social · Dec 2

'C' is for Chough

This delightful illustration is by #Cornwall artist, Matt Johnson. Just one of the 12 birds he's chosen for his beautiful 2025 calendar, which you may like to check out, here: mattillustration.bigcartel.com/product/2025...

#AlphabetBirds #birdart #birds #art 🪶

Choughs flying, and resting on rocks above Cornish cove. Blue and mustard coloured landscape with seed heads

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Jen Mac @jen-m-a-c.bsky.social · Nov 30

On #Caturday we would let the cat out of the bag, but she quite likes it there.

A pretty tortoiseshell cat sits inside a paper bag on a wooden table

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Jen Mac @jen-m-a-c.bsky.social · Nov 30

This #SixOnSaturday #GardenBlog is mostly autumnal, with some out of season primroses, a willow fedge that needs some work, little pansies flowering despite the frost, a baby oak and ferns under the disco ball. doingtheplan.com/2024/11/30/s...

A collage of six images from the garden, including a border of plants with a statue of a horses head, some yellow primroses, white pansies, and a willow 'fedge' of living willlow stems woven to form a fence / hedge.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · Nov 28

In honor of Jimi Hendrix, who would have turned 82 today, I wrote something for PBS about his incredible sense of style. He helped define not only the sound but also the look of a countercultural movement.

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Jen Mac @jen-m-a-c.bsky.social · Nov 27

#RoseWednesday #BloomScrolling #Gardening #Flowers

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Jen Mac @jen-m-a-c.bsky.social · Nov 26

In #London The #V&A exhibition #FragileBeauty shows photos from the Elton John and David Furnish collection. Its a fantastic show, and
I loved seeing Miss Muppet's portrait amongst the stars where she belongs! www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/... @muppethistory.bsky.social

Elton John at a breakfast table with fried eggs on his glasses

The star of stage screen and studio room at the exhibition

Portrait of Miss Piggy on the wall between Liz Taylpr and Doris Day

Jen Mac @jen-m-a-c.bsky.social · Nov 26

#BloomScrolling
#TinyFlowerTuesday

Little pansies and daisies for the bloomscrollers.

Flowers in a garden in Somerset, UK. There are small purple and yellow pansies and little daises.

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Jen Mac @jen-m-a-c.bsky.social · Nov 25

In a vase on Monday, hydrangea and pine, with a sedum stemfrom a few weeks back that is sprouting baby plants all over... #flowers #garden #InAVaseOnMonday #propagation #hydrangea #pine #sedum

A sedum stem in a flower vase. Small plantlets with tiny leaves and roots are forming along the stem

Dusky pink hydrangea flowers, each flower stem is formed of dozens of little flowers

Huydranga, sedum and pine stems in a red vase on a table with a colourful tablecloth and a large leaved houseplant in the background

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