The garden is full of colour and life at this time of year.
September 11, 2026 at 5:27 PM
The garden is full of colour and life at this time of year.
Tonight's harvest included interesting dried beans (Tiger's eye and Jacob's cattle) and two more giant stealth cucumbers (straight onto the compost heap).
September 10, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Tonight's harvest included interesting dried beans (Tiger's eye and Jacob's cattle) and two more giant stealth cucumbers (straight onto the compost heap).
Each jar holds around 25 sliced and dried pears.
September 6, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Each jar holds around 25 sliced and dried pears.
I may have solved the Mystery of the Underproductive Pickling Cucumber Plant.
September 4, 2026 at 4:53 PM
I may have solved the Mystery of the Underproductive Pickling Cucumber Plant.
Foreshadowing Fall.
August 26, 2026 at 11:43 AM
Foreshadowing Fall.
Starting to pick the late summer fruit: Clapp's Favourite pear and Chester blackberries.
August 24, 2026 at 11:53 PM
Starting to pick the late summer fruit: Clapp's Favourite pear and Chester blackberries.
Eggplants coming along: Listada de Gandia is the stripey one, the other is Rosita.
August 19, 2026 at 10:17 PM
Eggplants coming along: Listada de Gandia is the stripey one, the other is Rosita.
Toby-dog used to steal ripe tomatoes. Lily has developed a taste for under-ripe pears.
August 16, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Toby-dog used to steal ripe tomatoes. Lily has developed a taste for under-ripe pears.
The strip of wildflower meadow I sowed in November 2022 continues to mature. This year it is full of bee balm and prairie coneflowers for the first time.
August 14, 2026 at 9:07 PM
The strip of wildflower meadow I sowed in November 2022 continues to mature. This year it is full of bee balm and prairie coneflowers for the first time.
Roasting tomatoes into sauce. A much better crop than last year.
August 11, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Roasting tomatoes into sauce. A much better crop than last year.
Reading about the loss of parish registers from Greenland when the MS Hans Hedtoft hit an iceberg in 1959: Wikipedia share.google/Jg1NPyYDqtQt...
MS Hans Hedtoft - Wikipedia
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August 11, 2026 at 1:49 PM
Reading about the loss of parish registers from Greenland when the MS Hans Hedtoft hit an iceberg in 1959: Wikipedia share.google/Jg1NPyYDqtQt...
Goldenrod crab spider on a coneflower. The pink stripes are a good match.
August 8, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Goldenrod crab spider on a coneflower. The pink stripes are a good match.
I only have one sunflower and something has taken a huge bite from the top of it.
August 8, 2026 at 3:40 PM
I only have one sunflower and something has taken a huge bite from the top of it.
And this is after I gave five away yesterday.
Cucumber is now a compulsory accompaniment to every meal.
Cucumber is now a compulsory accompaniment to every meal.
August 7, 2026 at 8:27 PM
And this is after I gave five away yesterday.
Cucumber is now a compulsory accompaniment to every meal.
Cucumber is now a compulsory accompaniment to every meal.
A later-than-usual garlic harvest, this year. Yesterday's rain made the job a bit easier than it has been in the past.
August 3, 2026 at 9:49 PM
A later-than-usual garlic harvest, this year. Yesterday's rain made the job a bit easier than it has been in the past.
Grateful for some rain today.
August 2, 2026 at 10:18 PM
Grateful for some rain today.
A few moments of peace, just me and a Great Lake. #EarlyMorningBikeRide
July 31, 2026 at 2:59 PM
A few moments of peace, just me and a Great Lake. #EarlyMorningBikeRide
Might get to pick at least one eggplant this year.
July 28, 2026 at 11:50 PM
Might get to pick at least one eggplant this year.
Found a piece of automotive history on today's #EarlyMorningBikeRide
July 25, 2026 at 1:19 PM
Found a piece of automotive history on today's #EarlyMorningBikeRide
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Here’s a thing I wrote for Monocle for the summer. Cheers, Tom monocle.com/design/beaut...
Greetings from the past: A look back at postcards serving as snapshots of history
How much can holiday missives from decades past tell us about the world? Volumes, says this postcard collector and author.
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July 15, 2026 at 10:32 AM
Here’s a thing I wrote for Monocle for the summer. Cheers, Tom monocle.com/design/beaut...
This coneflower starts off looking like a regular pink one, then turns boldly different. Admirable.
July 11, 2026 at 3:28 PM
This coneflower starts off looking like a regular pink one, then turns boldly different. Admirable.
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If you're a GLAM institution and are already being dinged for "compliance issues," maybe don't carry manuscript collections around with you to random people's houses and look at them while drinking coffee
July 5, 2026 at 11:21 PM
If you're a GLAM institution and are already being dinged for "compliance issues," maybe don't carry manuscript collections around with you to random people's houses and look at them while drinking coffee
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Happy Canada Day! 🍁 Over one million items — 550 years of Canadian history, in ~90 languages — are free to explore at archive.org/details/toronto. Parliamentary debates, opera libretti, 15th-century incunabula, and more, built by libraries across Canada.
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July 1, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Happy Canada Day! 🍁 Over one million items — 550 years of Canadian history, in ~90 languages — are free to explore at archive.org/details/toronto. Parliamentary debates, opera libretti, 15th-century incunabula, and more, built by libraries across Canada.
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Some Canada-Day-appropriate verbena flowers. 🇨🇦
July 1, 2026 at 11:08 AM
Some Canada-Day-appropriate verbena flowers. 🇨🇦
I first noticed Butterfly weed at the Hampton Court flower show back in 2012. Finally got round to growing it from seed last year and it looks like the flowers might open soon. #plantsforpollinators
June 30, 2026 at 12:18 AM
I first noticed Butterfly weed at the Hampton Court flower show back in 2012. Finally got round to growing it from seed last year and it looks like the flowers might open soon. #plantsforpollinators