AH look at you swimming, there you go! I love seeing people really enjoy the ocean despite worries at first. I'm a thrashing about swimmer and should learn some ocean swimming techniques. It reminds me

Happy birthday! Love that gif. Isn't it great when you reach an age where you want for nothing! Mind you I could do without this gluteal tendiopathy lol. Great news about the poem - what a buzz!

That copper beech is stunning. Graveyards in England are always so beautiful!

Butterflies and lobster, sounds like a great day! Those leaf butterflies are incredible!

I haven't made foccacia for ages - might make it this weekend. I often do rosemary (from garden) and maybe olive.

Just gorgeous. I've seen that ad - it's defo iconic!

Loving the various feeds. Now I just need my favourite hashtag feed.

Oh yeah, honestly, that's pretty good 🤤😋

American coffee, I hear, is vastly inferior. Sorry you have to endure that 😁 What's your favourite breakfast?

And then, ten years from now, read it all again and laugh at my own "wisdom." Yep, and facepalm at all the lessons you had to relearn because somehow you fell into the same patterns again. Sigh.

For me it's about how the rich simply accumulate without hard work - once you've got money it just begets money. So the real inequality is how the poor and middle classes just keep working their asses

Wow that's really bright and cheerful. It really must put a smile on those who past by!

Lovely. You make me want to try planting some!

Oh sorry about ten - fifteen from me to the communities I run.

Last time I was there it was pissing with rain and didn't look half as nice as your photos suggest.

Your shallot harvest is amazing! It's true that you have to work with what works. Do you think some kind of shade cover might work for the tomatoes next time? Or maybe try this:

Ah, what an incredible journey. It's stories like these that make the hard work worth it, and you'll remember the good parts more than the bad. I'm not sure about bikes (despite the husband talking 24/7

I admire your persistance - every time I've tried to write anything more substantial I've given up. I get bored easily - 2000 words on Hive is my limit.

Oh my god, Cum on Feel the Noize - that's a blast from the past! I can hear it my head now, an echo down the decades...

I'm so sorry you still haven't found out where LIly and her Mum are. Yes, you have many blessings, and the wisest thing to do is share them, for sure - you're doing alright. Couldn't help but laugh at