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Share Your Gardens at the Beginning of April!

As the year goes on, we're getting more of you posting about your gardens. Whilst the warmer climate gardeners are more consistant, and in the south we're plant...

Three Cool Things on Hive You Might Have Missed

Every now and then I come across an app or tool on Hive that’s worth writing about. I always mean to review it, I don’t always follow through, though I apprecia...

I Built a Tool to Save Curators From Burnout

Alright, the title might be a bit clickbait-y :D If we’ve ever done manual curation on Hive, really done it, consistently over time, we know how it goes. We ope...

Collecting books since I was ten —

This is a post to go with monthly challenge from Hive Collectors community. BOOKS!!! I've already touched this topic; more about my library in other posts here:...

Ghosts

'Can you be haunted by a ghost who hasn't become a ghost yet' my niece asks, her eyes earnest and reflecting the last of the leaves outside the glass of her roo...

Getting started on Hive: What you really need to know!

If you've just discovered Hive, it can be a bit overwhelming at first. There are so many different apps, keys, tokens, voting power, communities and features an...

When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Lemonade...

Back in the 1960's my father planted a lemon tree. Of course, he never expected much as he lived in a state with bad winters and it was in a pot. Over the years...

Midweek Growers Conversation - Win Hive!

It's hump day again - well, in Australia, we are over it, and this silly camel forgot it was Wednesday! THat's okay, it's not too late to join in to win!Thanks ...

I'm in Love With Sandy

Even though I've been in a lot of hip pain over the last three months, I've worked hard to strengthen them to the point I can ride a bike. I think as I'm moving...

Make Way for the Living

It's a complex thing, grief, with sharp angles. I can be tracking along nicely along some line, feeling Dad recede in the rearview, comfortable with this new wo...

A Shepherd’s Path through Tarifa and Vejer

A Shepherd's Path There is a specific kind of stillness you find in the white-washed alleys of Vejer de la Frontera. Standing on the edge of the old town fortif...

Week 49: Garden Map

Welcome to Week 49 of the Hive Garden Question! Lst week's QOTW (question of the week) was centred around feel good moments in the garden. I mean, seeing a butt...

My political leanings, 2026

I've been pondering this for a while now. For a long period, I refused to call myself left or right because living in China, that simple dichotomy makes very li...

An Absolute Bargain - Planning Our Winter Heat & An Awesome Second Hand Find!

Remember the Friday Ads or the Trading Post? Depending on where you were in the world, I'm sure you had a local paper for second hand goods. I remember pouring ...

Garden Hump Day - Comment to Win on Wednesdays!

It's hump day! Maybe we should have a camel doing the garden for our thumbnail! Thanks to everyone who joined in last week! If you missed last week... Comment o...

I Admit I'm A Squirrel

There seems two ways of approaching this world war three panic - hoard, or take a more laissez faire approach, shrug, and say 'well, I can't control that, so I'...

I GOT THE e-BIKE! Life changing!

A cyclist I am not. Just ask @mrprofessor who knows the story of me falling into a hedgerow after cycling after a demijohn of homemade elderberry wine. Or the t...

Week 47: Feeling Good

Welcome to Week 47 of the Hive Garden Question! It should be Week 48 - my bad, I skipped a week! Let's get straight into it with something happy, given world ev...

Our once great nation, now in tatters, lead by Cockroaches & Sloths

I used to find it quite an appealing idea to watch my government debate one another on various important issues. This now false belief that these elite of the e...

A Walk on the Wild Side

Hi to everyone @wednesdaywalk, today the call of the wild was irresistible. I ventured to the windswept heights above my village, seeking not just a walk, but a...