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A green step-through bike parked beside a sandwich board which reads "Jimmy's Coffee"

back in the saddle

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I love my new bike, as I have probably said here before. I guess I can call it new until the 1 year mark. The winter hasn’t kept me from riding to appointments, but the… back in the saddle

23 🍅

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Our ripe tomato meter hit 23 today. Many more to come we hope. They have been so good to eat. Many tomato sandwiches apart from anything else. I have never eaten a tomato sandwich with… 23 🍅

Nymphalidae

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Saw a couple of Red Admirals in the garden today, joined by a Monarch a few minutes later. We’ve also had a few visits from Pipevine Swallowtails (Papilionidae) and our daily cabbage whites. I could… Nymphalidae

Smiling

Enjoying my garden cocktail bar quite a bit.

Fruit cocktail

Not sure why it took me so many years to try what is arguably the national drink of my English forebears. Damn, a Pim’s Cup is good. In this case it’s 2:5 Pim’s #1 to… Fruit cocktail

Daisies

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I really love these so-called African Daisies. I’m not really sure of their official Latin name, but I really think they are delightful in their yellows, oranges and purples.