Justsmudge
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🏆
- 🌿☕ Spring! Pah! It's Springing Time 🍃 .. and I am looking forward to it.. !! Boing 🍃 "Springing time" was the C14th term for spring, referring to the sprouting of plants. Over time, it was shortened to spring-time in the C15th & then later spring in the C16th... One month and a bit to go... 🌷 🌷🌷
- 🌿☕ Good morning 🌞 It can be fun to look up! Globally there are over 900 mistletoe species. Seen here, viscum album is the only species native to the UK It is parasitic, growing in round clusters on other trees to survive 🌿 #cheltenham #bloomscrolling
- 🌿☕ Cheltenham, the most complete regency town in England 🏴 Birthplace of Brian Jones (Rolling Stones) Richard O'Brian(Rocky Horror) Wurzel(Motorhead) Eddie the Eagle(ski jumper) FKA Twigs(singer) Robert Hardy(Harry Potter) & of course Gustav Holst(composer) @englishheritage.bsky.social #blooms
- 🌿☕ On wet days, wintery days, not going out days just think butterfly 🦋 Moths & butterflies have been on our planet for 200 million years & they've survived a few bleak winters Enjoy their display 🌞💐 @savebutterflies.bsky.social @natureportfolio.nature.com @nws.noaa.gov @cotswoldsnl.bsky.social
- 🌿☕ Good morning 🌞 Not much in the way of vitamin D in Cheltenham at the moment. There has been a lot of 🌧️! So I need to pack some on my feed. Feel the bright 🌞😎☀️💐🌺🌸 Bougainvillea & jasmine in the brightest Cypriot sunshine for us all to enjoy 👏 #bloomscrolling #throwback @rbgkew.bsky.social
- 🌿☕ Galanthus comes from the Greek γάλα (gala) for milk & ἄνθος (anthos) for flower The word snowdrop is German Schneetropfen (snow-drop), from the tear drop shaped pearl earrings popular in the 16th & 17th centuries Enjoy the 📸 of my "Girls With the Pearl Earring" taken in my garden this morning❤️🌿
- 🌿☕ Good morning🌞 I hope you enjoy another of my walking photos around Cheltenham. This is taken near The Suffolks at the back of Baker & Graze (great bread!) The origin of the word alley is late Middle English, from Old French alee "walking or passage" & aller "to go".. apt really! #architecrure
- 🌿☕ No idea who originated this photo.. but it made me chortle I bet a few politicians feel like this at the moment #davos
- 🌿☕ Good morning 🌞 Yesterday I had to explain the arrival of this "small" order of indoor plants to my family.. Might have gone a little OTT House is now rammed 🫣 ... But they are beautiful ❤️ 🙃🌿 #beards&daisies #bloomscrolling #gardening #indoorjungle
- 🌿☕Went to a #seedtalk yesterday #dunkertons Cheltenham. Gothic Fiction & The Female Writer @joanpassey.bsky.social enlightening! I didn't know the CPR dummy Resusci Annie was based on c.1890 body of a 16yr old Unknown Girl of the Seine & Michael Jackson's Smooth Criminal (Annie are you ok) was her🤯
- 🌿☕ Good morning 🌞 We need this, right? #bloomscrolling
- 🌿☕ Morning 🌞 Decided to do an hour walk around Cheltenham today Studies show we learn & take in more when walking, an idea existed since ancient times like Peripatetics, Aristotle's philosophical school that discussed whilst walking I spotted this beautiful art for the 1st time, a happy walk❤️🚶🎨🌿
