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Hellybootwader

@Hellybootwader@mastodon.scot

Based in Fife. Background in Botany/Plant Science. Involved in community gardens and growing food at home. Moving towards more perennial veg to try and get crops whatever the weather variations.
Trying to do what I can to live sustainably.
Currently working on habitat restoration/biodiversity and community food growing.
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Alt: header is a bush vetch flower with greenery in the background. Profile pic is a close up of a Sarracenia purpurea flower.

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mxtthxw, to random
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Doing my tax return today. I left as late as possible because I’m an ultra hard big man. Deal with it HMRC.

Hellybootwader,
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@mxtthxw no fun. Good luck, hope you can find all your info easily and it goes well.

Hellybootwader, to random
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I liked that moss is starting to colonise this old brick wall on a brownfield site, there is a mini forest planted on the site now.
#mosstodon #brick

BroadforkForVictory, to random

I don’t understand and will never understand the apathy about our climate catastrophe.

Today I saw some blackbirds when walking the dog. It occurred to me they were the first I’d seen for a while. I love seeing blackbirds.

I wonder what species going extinct will I miss the most? It’s always dogs. Today the answer was dogs.

and blackbirds. #ClimateDiary

Hellybootwader,
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@BroadforkForVictory
I’m convinced that more people are concerned about climate than most think (surveys show this) but we are very stuck about what can be done, plus worn down just paying bills. As someone said to me yesterday- being green is expensive.
Until people either have their needs met or green options are the easy ones, it can be very hard to make the choices they want to.
I talk about climate to people all the time & most people are concerned but feel helpless. 1/2
#ClimateDiary

Hellybootwader,
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@BroadforkForVictory
That’s why people around them making positive choices is so important, like your community composting and no dig plot.
It lets people imagine a different future.
I fear we are going to lose a lot of wildlife between avian flu and climate change.
But we still have time to make it less bad.
(Understand if that is not the way you are currently feeling - I’m in fight for the future mode just now after a particularly low point at the end of the year)
#ClimateDiary 2/2

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@BroadforkForVictory
I think you may be right, and I wish it wasn’t so.
One thing that was shown at the start of COVID was that if people understand and are supported massive change can happen quickly.
No one needs to be perfect either, there will always be something more that any person could do, but if everyone does something that makes a big effect & becomes normal and therefore easier for everyone to do the next thing.
#ClimateDiary
*edited for typo

Hellybootwader, to random
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To me, the darker underside colour of this lichen makes it look like it’s been outlined in black pen. The subtle colour variation looks like watercolour pigment seeping out across the lichen lines. Spotted yesterday in Fife.
#LichenSubscribe #stick

Hellybootwader, to random
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If I did take an extra long route home and got distracted taking photos of moss and lichen, I still think it was a good use of my time.
Moss and lichen on a hawthorn twig.

#mosstodon #LichenSubscribe #PhonePhoto

Hellybootwader, to gardening
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Garden is starting to look like spring. The first snowdrop and crocus, and there are more slightly battered primroses around.
Rhubarb leaf buds just visible, and wild garlic greens poking out of the ground (a few mm). First batch of sweet peas have started to germinate too.
#gardening #bloomscrolling #spring

Single yellow crocus bud emerged from leaf litter
Yellow primrose flower and closed bud emerging from leaf litter.

Hellybootwader, to gardening
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Wondering about recording all the food we eat that we have grown, foraged or harvested ourselves.
I did it a couple of years ago and found it was good to see how much we did provide for ourselves & was sometimes a reminder to check the freezer.
If you’re not interested -Feel free to mute #GrownForagedHarvested as I’ll try and remember to add it each time.
Join in if you fancy.
#gardening #GrowItYourself

Hellybootwader,
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23 Jan 2024
Todays homegrown produce was all from our garden and all frozen last summer, except for the Shiso (perilla) leaves used for tea, dried in the autumn.

Raspberries on breakfast.

Courgettes, tomatillos, green beans & roasted tomatoes into a sauce with other shop veg.

#GrownForagedHarvested #HomegrownVeg #Gardening

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24 Jan 2024 #GrownForagedHarvested
food for today was still mostly out the freezer, but with herbs and celery leaves I remembered to pick before it got dark.

Frozen Raspberries, red and black currants in breakfast
Elderberry juice diluted for a drink with local honey (not home produced)
Redcurrant vinegar (I harvested them, friend made them into vinegar)
Added to tonight’s soup: pumpkin, tomatillos, cutting celery leaves, sage, parsley & thyme.

#Homegrown #gardening

Hellybootwader, to wildflowers
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Always lovely to spot the snowdrops emerging.
Spotted today in Fife.
#snowdrops #wildflowers #nature

Hellybootwader, to random
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My amazing sister @rebeccawade went to Antarctica.
Here’s a video of some of the sights, penguins and her response to being at the end of the world.

https://www.abertay.ac.uk/news/2024/abertay-university-lecturer-in-call-to-save-planet-in-antarctica-video-diary/

Hellybootwader, to nature
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Happy to have spotted the pink lichen blobs growing on the other lichen. So much going on at a small level. I think the pink lichen is stealing nutrients from the other lichen.
I really need a book that can explain lichen going ons and help with ID. And that I can refer back to.
#lichenSubscribe #nature

Hellybootwader, to snowboarding
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Little moss, big tree.
Snow and sunshine.
#mosstodon
#tree
#snow

Hellybootwader, to random
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I find it odd that people I don’t know try and call me on my mobile phone.
As if I might pick up?!?
If you are not in my contacts I’m going to assume you’re trying to sell me something or are running a scam.
Does anyone answer an unknown number on a personal mobile anymore?
Time to reinstate letters of introduction if you are trying to reach me.
#coldCalls

Hellybootwader,
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@HelenG I do still call a few folks (after checking it’s a good time for them via text)

Hellybootwader, to random
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Not the sharpest photo, taken on an overcast day under trees, but I wanted to share this beautifully intricate fern moss.
#mosstodon

Hellybootwader, to random
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A wind thrown stick which is home to a number of types of lichen.
Amazing shapes and forms, endlessly fascinating.
I imagine that as we move towards cleaner air, the lichens that have been held back by pollution will grow in more places. Gloriously bushy lichen will take hold on every stick and bush.
#DayDreaming
#LichenSubscribe

Hellybootwader, to random
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A mushroom Monday photo for today, before I head back to work.
Spotted growing around tree roots on a slope yesterday.
#MushroomMonday #Fungi #mushtodon

Hellybootwader, to random
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In a surprise “not a moss” photo from me today, here is an impressive lichen colony on a nearby fence post
#PostOfTheDay #LichenSubscribe

Em0nM4stodon, to random

Before I was on the Fediverse,
I had never took a walk outside then suddenly thought "Wow, this is really good moss content"

#mosstodon 🌱

Hellybootwader,
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@Em0nM4stodon I have enjoyed spotting moss and lichen for some years now and have so many photos. You can imagine my delight in finally finding a place to see more moss & lichen and share the mossy joy and lichen love.

Hellybootwader, to random
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We went out for a walk just before the sun set this afternoon.
A bright patch of moss on a wall was lit up in the last of the sunshine. Lichens share the space but in much more muted colours.
#mosstodon

Hellybootwader,
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@dexternemrod @Em0nM4stodon
😬 I am too uncool to get the reference- computer games?

Hellybootwader, to random
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I’m mystified! Somehow I was not following the #mosstodon tag. What?
I am following it now (again?)

Anyway, here’s another mossy wall photo, from my favorite mossy wall.
#wall #moss

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