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Justsmudge
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Fun, nature, etymology, garden, daily trivia to brighten up your feed from the grind of daily claptrap, garbage & piffle 🌿 Cheltenham, UK & occasional Norway 🌿 Trigeminal neuralgia 💪🥳💗 All my photos, no pilfering🏆
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Justsmudge @justsmudge.bsky.social · Nov 18
Shall we have another Justsmudge fascinating fact?

🌹🌱 Roses 🌱🌹

We've all seen them, stories tell tales of them, even the Bible blames Eve on rose thorns!💃

But did you know that rose fossils have been found in the USA confirming that they existed 35 million years ago?

That's even older than me ☕
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Justsmudge @justsmudge.bsky.social · 1d
19!!
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Justsmudge @justsmudge.bsky.social · 1d
Thank you 💐
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Justsmudge @justsmudge.bsky.social · 1d
Pretty much.. more to do too, but let's see where the day takes me..
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Justsmudge @justsmudge.bsky.social · 1d
Oh that makes me happy 😊 I love it when people enjoy my photos ☺️
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Justsmudge @justsmudge.bsky.social · 1d
Americans have ladybugs, I have ladycows 🤦🥳😂
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Justsmudge @justsmudge.bsky.social · 1d
Pittville is a nice area of town - We've had some good rain of late so hopefully the trees will recover over the autumn months 🤞
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Justsmudge @justsmudge.bsky.social · 1d
🌿☕Morning☀️

I spent yesterday afternoon digging in young agapanthus & horse 💩 in the round bed at the back of the house

Literally ladycows everywhere, hundreds of them!! Like 1976!!

There are 26 types of 🐞 in the UK, you can id them on this link 👇
www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/blog/2021/03...
Ladybird 7 spot in yarrow from earlier this year - before a million appeared! 🥳
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Justsmudge @justsmudge.bsky.social · 1d
Thank you 👍
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Justsmudge @justsmudge.bsky.social · 2d
😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫🥳
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Justsmudge @justsmudge.bsky.social · 3d
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Justsmudge @justsmudge.bsky.social · 3d
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Justsmudge @justsmudge.bsky.social · 3d
My granny's family were too.. she was a plain salted fan.. my husband is Scottish and he has as much sugar as he can get his hands on 😂
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Justsmudge @justsmudge.bsky.social · 3d
Sounds great 👍 I go fruity myself..
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Justsmudge @justsmudge.bsky.social · 3d
Blueberries!! And chia seeds..
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Justsmudge @justsmudge.bsky.social · 3d
I like to think I am special 😂😂😂
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Justsmudge @justsmudge.bsky.social · 3d
Morning 👋
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Justsmudge @justsmudge.bsky.social · 3d
🌿☕Morning☀️

Congratulations to the 🏆 of the Golden Spurtle World Porridge Making Championship in Carrbridge, Scotland www.goldenspurtle.com

Did you know, only the right ✋should be used for spurtle stirring & only in a clockwise direction.. as stirring widdershins was believed to invoke the devil 😯🍃
A pan of blueberry porridge being cooked over a gas stove top with a Scottish Spurtle
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Justsmudge @justsmudge.bsky.social · 4d
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Justsmudge @justsmudge.bsky.social · 4d
Not quite.. it was taken at the end of October last year 🍂
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Justsmudge @justsmudge.bsky.social · 4d
🌿☕Good morning🌞

Wild 🌬️🍃across Cheltenham, we've hunkered down at home. Looking through photos of last year I came across this of Montpellier Gardens. The leaves were so autumnal🍂🍁

Autumn is derived from the Latin autumnus related to the Etruscan "autu"🍂🍁.. A little bit of Tuscany 🌞 in Cheltenham💐
Two labradors sat amongst orange autumn 🍁 leaves in Montpellier Gardens, Cheltenham
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Justsmudge @justsmudge.bsky.social · 5d
Reindeer certainly think so! 🦌 😂
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Justsmudge @justsmudge.bsky.social · 5d
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Justsmudge @justsmudge.bsky.social · 5d
🌿☕Good morning🌞

This is arctoparmelia centrifuga lichen

Lichen means "licker" from the Greek to lick. It's literally licking the glacial boulder, I can 👀 that!

Lichen is a symbiotic complex life form partnership of a fungus & an alga. The dominant partner is the 🍄‍🟫 Fascinating!🌿
@susiedent.com
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Justsmudge @justsmudge.bsky.social · 5d
Totes for real ❤️❤️❤️
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Justsmudge @justsmudge.bsky.social · 6d
.. and that is a post that needs something all to itself! 👏
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