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This was mine: I wasn’t in the RP server but I joined a UW map that, sadly, the host never edited despite all parts being done. It was my breakthrough into the community as well
Sloespeck my beloved:

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2022-10-17

“Many haws, many snaws, many sloes, many cold toes.”

So there might be lots of sloe gin, but a cold, snowy winter is foretold.
Image: The Sloe Fairy by Cicely Mary Barker, 1926

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2022-09-28

Forecast winter weather from your hedgerows:

Many haws, many sloes,
Many cold toes.
(🎨 Cecily Mary Barker)

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2021-11-25

Today’s are the colours of Autumn that I found on my walk round the farm today Windfall apples, balls of lichen,hedges full of sloes & the first rose hips

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2021-08-28

Today’s are the sloes that are swelling in the lichen swathed hedgerows now.

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2021-08-24

Hedgerow weather forecasting:

"Many haws, many snows,
many sloes many cold toes..."


(Flower fairies C M Barker)

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2020-11-27

This week for is Bullace and Sloes. These are commonly found in hedgerows and are related to plums. /these can be used in jams or used to make slow gin!

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2020-10-29

Count me in! Rewinding a patch of front and back garden with wildflowers, planted new hedge of sloes and hazel. Pond, log pile, hedges, trees, veg plot, recycle grey water, 6 water butts and seephose on veggies. Birdfeeders, mice and squirrels love them too, plus chooks soon too!

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2020-02-14

- sloes! Worth the pain of collecting them if you like sloe gin.

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2019-10-15

3/6 'First Signs of Autumn' 'It wouldn't be Autumn of course without nature's best bounty, ripe fruit. Berry season is well underway, blackberry crumble' s demolished in minutes. Sloes ripe for picking and adding to gin.'

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2019-09-25

Hips, haws and sloes abundant now, observed by Diana Ruth Wilson (1886-1969)

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2018-09-24

Sloeshoe done in a lineless style ?? idk I love her !! Desgin by n also my inspiration <33

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2018-07-27