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On The Road - To Xi’An 🌫️
在路上 - 去西安 🌫️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

The garden festival / Landesgartenschau was not just about #gardening. There were also events etc. (Which we didn't attend)
One place was about #floristry with really beautifully decorated arrangements. I'm always a bit jealous of such things. They look really beautiful, and requir…

Double Daffodils (2 of 2) -- large bed near the visitor's center for the Cornell Botanic Garden
#photo #photography #flowers

"Remembering that time in 2013 President Obama checked on Karmel Allison, prospective Affordable Care Act beneficiary, after he had earlier held onto her when she began to faint during his remarks in the Rose Garden."
photo by Pete Souza, official White House photographer in the Reagan and Obama administrations
https://www.

Pete Souza on Instagram: "Remembering that time in 2013 President Obama checked on Karmel Allison, prospective Affordable Care Act beneficiary, after he had earlier held onto her when she began to faint during his remarks in the Rose Garden.⁣ ⁣"
5,913 likes, 74 comments - petesouza on November 7, 2025: "Remembering that time in 2013 President Obama checked on Karmel Allison, prospective Affordable Care Act beneficiary, after he had earlier held onto her when she began to faint during his remarks in the Rose Garden.⁣ ⁣".

One reason why we chose #Baiersbronn for our last vacation was the #Landesgartenschau (#Garden show?).
It would have been a gem for flower and garden

GSHP: UK Domestic Ground-Source Heat Pumps - Could you be using the summer sun to heat your home in winter? Your garden dirt as a heat battery! #GSHP #heatpump #microgen -

GSHP: UK Domestic Ground-Source Heat Pumps
Could you be using the summer sun to heat your home in winter? Your garden dirt as a heat battery! #GSHP #heatpump #microgen

We have come to Scottsdales Garden Centre, mostly to experience the overload of the Christmas animated models display, which is just so over the top that it's wonderful. #christmas #loudsunday #cambridge

"Why green bus stops are blooming around the world"
#Buses #PublicTransport
https://www.

Why green bus stops are blooming around the world | The Optimist Daily
Green bus shelters are transforming cities into cooler, greener spaces—one rooftop garden at a time. Here’s why more towns are joining in.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #SaturdayMorning
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Huw Montague Rendall, Marie Jacquot & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden:
🎵 Aria: "Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen" from The Magic Flute, K.620 - Act 2:
https://open.spotify.com/track/2h5m3xD7UOwSX59nOU4gJc

Spot the difference from yesterday? More framSpot the difference from yesterday? More framework over the top by the ceiling and around the windows ready for the mirrored door blinds.
Bought more wood struts. Had quite a comedy farce trying to get the things into the house now the build cupboards prevent them entering the room. Had to carry them around into the garden then in through the back door and up into the kitchen to get the angle to enter the bedroom.
The company sending the new paint had emailed saying that they don't do varnish in the colours they had allowed us to order, so asked for whatever blues they do have. That did not arrive today. Nor did the extra wood that was set for "early" this week.
Making all these doors is going to take ages and I suggested that seems like something that could be done working from home. He's probably got a proper workshop there even. Carpenter suggests his boss won't allow such things though. 🙄 Bosses eh? They do like their staff to be monitored even if only by the client.ework over the top by the ceiling and around the windows ready for the mirrored door blinds.
Bought more wood struts. Had quite a comedy farce trying to get the things into the house now the build cupboards prevent them entering the room. Had to carry them around into the garden then in through the back door and up into the kitchen to get the angle to enter the bedroom.
The company sending the new paint had emailed saying that they don't do varnish in the colours they had allowed us to order, so asked for whatever blues they do have. That did not arrive today. Nor did the extra wood that was set for "early" this week.
Making all these doors is going to take ages and I suggested that seems like something that could be done working from home. He's probably got a proper workshop there even. Carpenter suggests his boss won't allow such things though. 🙄 Bosses eh? They do like their staff to be monitored even if only by the client.

Was removing some snails from the greenhouse. Opened skylight to fling them over the fence (into an uncultivated garden) and the window collapsed on my head! No injury as I was wearing a cap and the glass didn't break. Mortice joint had rotted through. Greenhouse was quite old when we arrived 40 years ago and I keep replacing bits.
Luckily I'd kept a partially rotten roof spar so was able to cut it down, using the sound part and joint it to fit.
Never throw anything that …

This is so deserved. It's a great little chippy, very friendly, with an arrangement with the riverside pub over the way so you can eat the F&C in the pub garden. The place is 100% scrupulously #glutenfree Our #coeliac daughter's eaten there without incident.

He filmed himself killing a man,
and the case ends in mistrial
An Orange County man who recorded himself fatally shooting a homeless man he said was blocking his path remained free this week after a jury deadlocked in his manslaughter trial.
Craig Sumner Elliott, 70, of Garden Grove was charged with one count of involuntary manslaughter for the 2023 shooting of Antonio Garcia Avalos.
According to prosecutors, Elliott and Avalos got into a confrontation on Sept. 29, 2…

First running day of robotic lawnmower here. Not too bad a performance given the length of the grass and complexity of garden. It only needed rescuing once (reported a wheel drive problem) I suspect because of the grass length.

Not a bad read on #Wythenshawe and the redevelopment plans.
The battle for the garden city - Manchester Evening News
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ne

The battle for the garden city
Campaigners say Wythenshawe's £500m revamp has 'a real sense of gentrification', but Manchester council points out that it's building 422 all-affordable homes to kick the project off. Ethan Davies reports on the battle for the garden city

Moody Urbanity III 🟨
情绪化城市 III 🟨
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Sometimes being optimistic or even fatalistic with a smile bites you in the bum.
Our regular garden and tree guy came to quote for trimming the leylandii coming over into our space, our own holly tree and taking out a conifer that had sown itself and grown on for years.
I had forgotten about pointing out the flat Cat 6 cable that's close to it but when I checked afterwards it was grazed and there was no signal.
The 50m cable is coming tomorrow to replace it.

End of the harvest season. Pulled the last of the tomatoes and peppers from our victory garden. I'm going to dehydrate about a kilogram of jalapeños and grind them into a powder.
#gardening

'writing is more than just the process by which you obtain a piece of text, right? it's also about finding out what you wanted to say in the first place, and how you wanted to say it. this post existed in my head first as a thought, then it started to gel into words, and then i tried pulling those words out to arrange them in a way that (hopefully) gets my point across. ... i alone can get the thought out and writing is how i do that.'

Oh! The video games I played in October all begin with 'B':
The Biggleboss INCident; Blackwell Unbound; The Blackwell Convergence; The Blackwell Deception; Backpack Battles.
Yep, #pointandclick
I've started the last in the Blackwell series - I'm not finished yet. I know they're older, but maybe I'll write a review of the series when I'm done.
I also played #SteamNextFest Demos: Goblin Sushi (many hours' worth); Nighthawks; Atomic Age; Moon Garden Optimizer; Mystery of Silence; Servant of the Lake; Uncle Lee's Cookbook
There were 5 other demos I played, but I uninstalled them after 10 minutes' play - they weren't for me

Summer in Autumn! (We moved and had to replace a lot of the back-yard topsoil, didn’t get that done till July, so we planted the spring flowers then and they think it’s midsummer.)
#Photography #bloomscrolling

Johannesburg is showing African cities how climate action gets done.
The city is racing toward net-zero by 2050 with bold moves: diverting 100% of garden waste from landfills by 2040, building micro-grids in informal settlements, and creating jobs while cutting emissions.
Their approach is becoming a model for scalable climate solutions across the continent.

Sources: if Netflix wins the WBD bid, DOJ's Gail Slater and her senior reports have discussed how they plan to launch a multiyear investigation into the deal (Charles Gasparino/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/12/03/medi…

Exclusive | Netflix acquisition of Warner Bros. studio and HBO Max would face stiff DOJ antitrust opposition: sources 
Antitrust officials are likening the Netflix purchase of WBD to Ticketmaster buying a popular entertainment venue like Madison Square Garden.

Folks, @… is also running a donation campaign to get the families they’re helping out of the danger zone in the North and to relative safety in the South.
Her amazing work with Keep Hope Alive: A Gaza Giving Circle has been a huge inspiration for Gaza Verified.
Please follow, help, and share if you can.
Thank you!
💕

Any sufficiently advanced disaster preparedness is indistinguishable from revolutionary dual power. This essay is a bit of a transition between the theory I've written earlier, and more concrete plans.
Even though I only touched on my life on the commune, it was hard not to write more. These are such weird spaces, with so much invisible opportunity. But they're also just so unique and special. For all the stress and uncertainty of making sure you stayed on Lorean's (the head priestess), there were also those long summer nights with the whole community (except the old lady) gathered around a fire, talking and drinking. There was almost a child-like play to the whole time.
There were so Fridays I'd come home with a couple of gallons of beer from the real world, folks would bring things from the garden, someone would grill a steak, everyone who didn't cook would clean up, and we'd just hang out and have fun. So many evenings I'd go over to Miles place with a guitar, or with his guitar, and we'd pass it around over a few beers, talking about philosophy, Star Wars, or some book or other. It's hard not to write about the strange magic of that space.
My partner and I bonded over similar experiences, mine on a weird little religious commune in California and theirs as a temporary worker at Omega Institute. Both had exploitation, people on weird power trips, frustrating dynamics, but also a strange magic and freedom. Both were sort of fantasy worlds, but places that let us see through this one, let us imagine something that something else is possible behind the veil.
There are many such veils.
Perhaps it's fitting that this is more meandering, as a good wander can help the transition between lots of hard thinking and lots of hard working.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/evaluating-options
Editing feedback (especially typos, spelling, grammar) is always welcome, as are questions and even wider structural advice. I've been adding the handles of folks who provide feedback to the intro in a "thank you" section. If you do help and wouldn't like to be added, please let me know.

Much heavyweight gardening today. Shredding remainder of fallen tree, with a bit of chainsawing for good measure, with excellent assistance from Bob.
We are both now composed of 90% grime.

Last year, the museum launched its student guide program, an opportunity for #UniversityOfGeorgia students to build research, leadership and public speaking skills. We talked to Alexis Gorby, who runs the program, about how it came together and how it benefits students in all majors.

The UK 1940s Radio Station
London, United Kingdom
lovely
Listen to The UK 1940s Radio Station from London live on Radio Garden: https://radio.garden/listen/the-uk-1940s-radio-station/eBXwOuxA

Listen to The UK 1940s Radio Station from London live on Radio Garden
Listen to The UK 1940s Radio Station from London live on Radio Garden

Oh, right. Also, the giant 36" spider I finished #3dprinting in the nick of time, on the porch on some dead tomato plants from the garden. #halloween

Was hoping to get lots of things done this weekend. Preparing the garden for winter, messing around with some hardware, watching some movies … instead I’m just keeping my fingers crossed that the mild uveitis-sensation doesn’t blossom into the real deal while staying away from light. Sigh. It’s always on weekends when the local apothecary closes early.

THE PLAN:
Remove anything gold.
Recreate the art deco.
Clear out the "Walk of Fame".
Rebuild the rose garden.
Tear down the ballroom.
Restore the East Wing.
Rehire Federal layoffs.
Restore defunded institutions.
Repeal the Big Dumb Bill.
Pack the Supreme Court.
Fire anyone hired by him.
END PART 1.

We moved a "miniature" weeping willow from its not-really-suitable home outside our back door to a better home in the garden, over the weekend.
10/10 outdoor action.
Much better than computer touching

Instead of cancelling something, today I’m subscribing to WIRED magazine. They continue to frankly report on politics and realities in tech today, and restated their commitment in this Katie Drummond editorial. (ironically, I can only find it on Apple News ’s page-by-page magazine edition)
https://apple.news/AlRnIwnkDROuTjFPR4…

Front yard garden as we head into Australian summer. Those beans on the right are 4 metres tall. Tromboncino battling it out with grapes for the pagola that shades all the east side of the house - green air conditioning for the summer. Tomatoes, capsicums, eggplants ripening, cucumbers to give away, snake beans coming on, carrots & fennel flowering to feed nectar to the ladybugs & make seed, so many geen beans I'm leaving some to mature. Onions & garlic nearly ready. Still p…

https://www.stirworld.com/think-opinions-remaking-the-chinese-garden-a-contemporary-architectural-dilemma

Remaking the Chinese Garden: a contemporary architectural dilemma
The Chinese garden is not just a single, independent entity built for crafting landscapes or modelling nature itself, it is a lexicon of symbols, layered upon built reality.

#FotoDerWoche weiter im Herbstmodus.
https://blog.till-westermayer.de/index.php/2025/10/18/photo-of-the-week-autumn-in-the-garden/

Photo of the week: Autumn in the garden
Ich bleibe beim herbstlichen Thema. Hier ist der wilde Wein (der vermutlich kein wilder Wein, sondern ein anderes Rankgewächs ist) erst dabei, sich rot zu verfärben. Heute strahlt die ganze hintere Gartenecke in leuchtendem Rot. Sonnige Oktobertage sind mit das beste am Jahr.

The Front Garden
Landscaping Victoria brings you the latest in landscaping news, trends, and ideas by sharing some stories from people within the industry to help make your landscaping career a little easier...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-fr

In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information
https://blog.burkert.me/posts/in_praise_of_syndication/

In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information
The way we consume content on the internet is increasingly driven by walled-garden platforms and black-box feed algorithms. This shift is making our media diets miserable. Ironically, a solution to the problem predates algorithmic feeds, social media and other forms of informational junk food. It is called RSS (Really Simple Syndication) and it is beautiful. What the hell is RSS? RSS is just a format that defines how websites can publish updates (articles, posts, episodes, and so on) in a stand…

Arrived at the "office"... Working in/above the clouds today (at least so far...)
#MorningWalk #OutdoorComputing

All of the squash in my garden this year are survivors. #gardenthoughts

Another film, another unattributed use of #OpenStreetMap. This is the fourth movie I’ve seen this year commit this sin and the latest culprit is this Netflix Christmas romcom titled Champagne Problems.
Their travesty is now immortalized on the OSM Wiki: https…

So I'm walking Ruh 🐱 out. She stops at her favorite corner of the wooden garden box to scratch it. I've noticed that His Ekscellence 🐈 is already running around, and sneaking up from the other side of the box. He stops at the other corner and starts looking around it. She also looks around her corner. She starts scratching her corner, he scratches his. Both set themselves in the position to jump out. Ek starts running towards her, she only screams at him once, and midway he changes direction and runs away.
That's the true #cat power.

Cry baby cry.
Make your mother sigh.
She's old enough to know better.
The king of Marigold was in the kitchen
Cooking breakfast for the queen.
The queen was in the parlor
Playing piano for the children of the king.
Cry baby cry.
Make your mother sigh.
She's old enough to know better. So cry baby cry.
The king was in the garden
Picking flowers for a friend who came to play.
The queen was in the playroom
Painting picture…

#3GoodThings
The incredible number of butterflies in the garden over the last few days.
Hanging out in the sun while watching the kids pull off new tricks at the skatepark.
Kid2's peanut butter chip cookies.

When I was little, my family hired a dogsitter to feed my dog while the family was out of town. They forgot to, so my dog survived on corn & veggies in the garden.
I learned from her, so I embraced the corny early on...

DeltaChat is a cool idea but should be cranked to the max. Fuck protocols, instant messaging has never been been about the protocol but the network effect.
Not everyone knows how to login to their email outside of the web browser, a chat client should facilitate speech between you and your friend’s favourite app.
These are all open protocols that allow for direct communication but garden off others: activitypub, email, irc, matrix, xmpp, bluesky, nostr, simplex, theema, tox, jam…

Today is horseradish (raifort) day on the French Republican Calendar, and I said to my wife this morning that it was making me crave Arby's, which she took on as a mission

Moody Urbanity - Old & New II 🔆
情绪化城市 - 新与旧 II 🔆
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

I've been an Android developer for … *checks calendar* … more than 15 years. It was a nice enough platform and the developer community is awesome.
But with Google's planned changes to turn Android into yet another walled garden, I'm seriously considering doing something else 😞

I've been an Android developer for … *checks calendar* … more than 15 years. It was a nice enough platform and the developer community is awesome.
But with Google's planned changes to turn Android into yet another walled garden, I'm seriously considering doing something else 😞

Arrived London! Still pretty wiped out from travel but we managed to get to Covent Garden for a glass of wine and a bite to eat. Rainy day plan tomorrow is the Churchill War Rooms.

Saw yer Da's house on the news

Ned is a perfectly nice snail, but a rare shell means a doomed love life
https://apnews.com/article/ned-left-coiled-snail-new-zealand-5ffbac35db3bbab99966464b12ab39a8

Ned the snail has a quirky shell that's dooming romance
If you have trouble finding dates, spare a thought for Ned, a perfectly nice snail with dire romantic prospects. Only 1 in 40,000 common garden snails have shells that coil to the left like Ned’s, instead of the right. Their shells have to match to mate, which means Ned faces a life of celibacy unless another left-coiled snail is found. A New Zealand woman discovered Ned in her garden in August and began a campaign to find a match, but hasn't found one so far. New Zealand’s strict biosecuri…

1/2 I was in the garden at night, thought the flowers looked sort of ghostly and dreamy, tried to take a picture with my phone and it came out black. So I tried the Android “Night Vision” thing…
Which was OK. But then I wondered if the first apparently-all-black version had actually captured anything.
So…
#photography

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #OperaOn3
Giuseppe Verdi, Giorgi Guliashvili, Joyce El-Khoury, Valentyn Dytiuk, Ildebrando d’Arcangelo, Quinn Kelsey, Blaise Malaba, Thomas D Hopkins, Vartan Gabrielian, Neal Cooper, Jingwen Cai, Michael Gibson, Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden & Speranza Scappucci:
🎵 The Sicilian Vespers - Act 2

Autumn colors in the Japanese garden at the Seattle Arboretum this past weekend
#naturalist #photography

Cosmos have replaced purple coneflowers as the main flower of the prairie garden in front of the vet school research tower
#photo #photography #cosmos

Concrete Jungle 🏗️
水泥丛林 🏗️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Electrotech, not fossil fuels, will power the future
During a recent parliamentary committee meeting, Bloc Quebecois MP Patrick Bonin grilled Alberta Premier Danielle Smith about climate change. Her answers were evasive — although she conceded that the planet is warming. Bonin asked if she thought humans were the main factor in Earth’s recent heating. “I don't know the answer to that. I'm not a scientist,” she replied.
1/2

I disconnected the garden hose yesterday. It is currently in the mid-40s. The chance of freezing temperatures is pretty high.

The fruits of tonight’s mad dash harvest of the feral garden to get as much picked before the cold snap starts signaling to the plants to slow down. I think we have some work to do. 🌱#gardening #oklahoma #okwx

Yellow Rose. Mary and Joseph Retreat Center, Rancho Palos Verdes, California, USA. August, 2025. #ranchopalosverdes #garden #rosegarden

@… at #flowerPiano in the moon viewing garden

the frow show is back in the safe, perfumed garden of @…, filling in for daniel blumin & playing music to tune in to tune out to, from now 'til midnight ET. https://wfmu.org/playlists/JJ/250922…

I try to protect my garden. Like many gardens there are vermin - such as rats - that damage, even destroy, the beauty and use of my garden.
I offer no excuses when I remove those vermin from my garden, usually by killing them.
I do have some sympathy for them should the traps not finish the job and they squeak in alarm as I approach to take their lives. But those squeaks do not deter me.
Our world, our nation, our neighborhoods are gardens. There are people who undermine …

Just ordered a small VPS to give #selfhosting

YunoHost: garden your own piece of the Internet!
YunoHost is a system that installs itself on a server and allows you to install and maintain - with very little technical knowledge - digital services (apps) that you control.

Ironically, the bean plants that did the best were the vines the squirrels planted in the corner of the yard. The beans I planted in the garden were overrun with weeds. #gardenthoughts

#Fensterfreitag

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
The Minus 5:
🎵 The Garden of Arden
#TheMinus5
https://theminus5.bandcamp.com/track/the-garden-of-arden
https://open.spotify.com/track/5Ihw2hULAwi2Yl4mIlS1XL

Hazzah & yikes! Just saw the matriarch skink in our garden - we call her 3-Legs, because she's missing her left front leg. This is my first time seeing her since last fall. She's looking rather worse for the wear. From my quick glimpse, seems she's lost most of her tail and appears to have a mostly healed wound on her side. Here's hoping she's able to recover - and perhaps even parent another brood of skinklets - this summer! It's a pretty harsh world for skinks o…

Observed: a garden of Ina Gartens. Well, two of the 5. #halloween

Paratrooper planes flying over on their way to the Ginkelse Heide where members of the 11th Airmobile Brigade will jump out in commemoration of Operation Market Garden.

Thanking my fellow Mastodonians for making me aware of the wonders of moss.
I now have two tiny pet mosses, which accidentally became a small zen garden when I needed somewhere to put this little red pepper I'm going to grow into a plant.
#mosstodon

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #SaturdayMorning
Giuseppe Verdi, Joyce El-Khoury, Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden & Speranza Scappucci:
🎵 Sicilian Vespers (Bolero - Merci, jeunes amies)
#GiuseppeVerdi

Orange Tiger Lily (𝐿𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑢𝑚 𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑓𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑚) that I also saw in a Collegetown garden
#photo #photography #ithaca #bloomscrolling

[Apropos Felsen in der chinesischen Gartenarchitektur: ein rascher Einblick]
https://www.lanseichina.com/blogs/inspire-through-words/rockeries

7 stones used in Chinese classical gardens as rockeries
There is no Chinese classical garden without stones. The inanimate stones are endowed with meaning far beyond real rocks by traditional Chinese Zen, philosophy and aesthetics. When the ancients built gardens, they gave the rockery a nice name - "掇山" （Picking mountains). Stone selection is the first step in crafting roc

You may (or may not) recall the #Freenode takeover mess. However, thanks to #IRC being an open and widely supported protocol, many projects migrated to #LiberaChat with as little disruption as possible.
Good news is, your walled garden is unlikely to suffer the fate of Freenode — because it already is there, from day one. What are you going to do when your project suddenly gets banned and you lose access to everything — including all the data that you shouldn't have kept there in the first place? Of course, come up with some corporate bullshit of "join us on our illustrious journey to the next walled garden, and don't forget to install another 200 MiB privacy nightmare app not to be excluded from our community".
#Discord

This tree stump has long driven me mad as it's right by a good car turning spot and we've all clipped it once or twice. These toadstools have just moved in and now I love it 😃🍄 #bloomscrolling #FunghiFriday

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#OperaOn3
- Verdi's The Sicilian Vespers
Verdi's The Sicilian Vespers from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, starring soprano Joyce El-Khoury, tenor Valentyn Dyiuk and baritones Ildebrando D'Arcangelo and Quinn Kelsey
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002lc48

Find the hidden animal in this photo. Please excuse the state of the garden. Between the bunnies, the raccoons, the squirrels and the weeds nothing has gone to plan.

Can you see them? The spiderlings? Aren't they cute! Garden pest control sorted. #permaculture #foodgardening

Squirrel, eating a berry while hiding behind a sign in the garden. LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. October, 2025. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4. #laarboretum #squirrels #foxsquirrel

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#OperaOn3
- Handel's Semele
Handel's Semele from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, with Pretty Yende, Alice Coote and Ben Bliss, conducted by Christian Curnyn.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002k4v3

Saag with sourdough naan bread for dinner, so good. This time of year (it's spring in Australia), we eat a whole big bunch of silver beet (chard) most days. Saag or spanakopita or quiche or gozlemes or mahshi selek. But I think saag is my favourite. #permaculture #retrosuburbia

Saag with Cottage Cheese
Saag just isn’t photogenic. Unfortunately, because it is very delicious, and I have bucketloads of silverbeet (chard if you are not in Australia) in the garden at the moment and saag is one of the …

Fall color on Garden Road between Barton Hall and Teagle
#photo #photography #cornell #landscape

Fuc*ing lawnmower timing belt shredded itself again, mere minutes after fitting the replacement, suggesting buggered pulleys or similar 🤬 All this on what I hoped would be the last grass-cut of the year, long delayed as a result of all the damn rain.
Considering one of:
* sheep
* a robot mower with a direct motor-to-blade design
* paving the entire bloody garden

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #OperaOn3
George Frideric Handel, Pretty Yende, Ben Bliss, Alice Coote, Carlo Vistoli, Brindley Sherratt, Niamh O'Sullivan, Marianna Hovanisyan, Royal Opera House Chorus, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden & Christian Curnyn:
🎵 Semele - Act 3

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #OperaOn3
George Frideric Handel, Pretty Yende, Ben Bliss, Alice Coote, Carlo Vistoli, Brindley Sherratt, Niamh O'Sullivan, Marianna Hovanisyan, Royal Opera House Chorus, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden & Christian Curnyn:
🎵 Semele - Acts 1 & 2

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Dobrinka Tabakova, Maxim Rysanov, Vaiva Eidukaitytė-Storastienė, Lietuvos kamerinis orkestras & Maxim Rysanov:
🎵 Suite in Old Style, for solo viola, harpsichord and strings: no.2 The rose garden by moonlight
#MaximRysanov
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Most of the garden hasn't gone to plan this year. But the golden raspberries are coming in nicely. Picking them reminds me of advice a friend's grandfather gave me - you'll know it's ripe when the raspberry comes off easily. He always chastised us if we came back with juice-covered hands. #gardenthoughts

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #OperaOn3
Giuseppe Verdi, Giorgi Guliashvili, Joyce El-Khoury, Valentyn Dytiuk, Ildebrando d’Arcangelo, Quinn Kelsey, Blaise Malaba, Thomas D Hopkins, Vartan Gabrielian, Neal Cooper, Jingwen Cai, Michael Gibson, Royal Opera House Chorus, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden & Speranza Scappucci:
🎵 The Sicilian Vespers - Act 5
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🎵 The Sicilian Vespers - Act 4

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🎵 The Sicilian Vespers - Act 3

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🎵 The Sicilian Vespers - Act 2

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