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HDYGG - how does your garden grow?

Now this is a blast from the past. Way back, over a decade ago I used to write a weekly post about a garden I had visited and other people would join in – a linky.

By Annie Spratt • 4 min read

Mounjaro

Mounjaro weeks 3 and 4

Weeks 3 and 4 taking the weight loss medication Mounjaro and the end of first month weigh in 👀

By Annie Spratt • 3 min read

Mounjaro

Mounjaro week 2

How I got on taking the weight loss medication Mounjaro in the second week.

By Annie Spratt • 2 min read

Mounjaro

Mounjaro week 1

How I got on taking the weight loss medication Mounjaro in the first week.

By Annie Spratt • 2 min read

Digital Photography

Fujifilm X100V: the most disappointing camera I've ever bought.

There's one negative about the Fujifilm X100V, and it's an unforgivable thing which to be honest renders it pretty useless as a camera for anything, especially street photography...

By Annie Spratt • 4 min read

Mounjaro

Taking Mounjaro for perimenopausal weight gain.

I have been slowly gaining weight since peri-menopause started. The more weight I gained, the more random pains I started to feel. Back, hips, and recently, knees.

By Annie Spratt • 2 min read

Everyday life

Prospect Cottage: Derek Jarman’s Creative Sanctuary in Dungeness

On the windswept shingle shore of Dungeness in Kent stands Prospect Cottage—a modest black wooden house that became one of the most important creative spaces in modern British culture.

By Annie Spratt • 4 min read

Digital Photography

Fancied a change.

I spend a lot of time walking outdoors, in nature, enjoying birdsong, noticing the subtle changes to the landscape around me. But sometimes, as with anything in life, one craves a change of scene.

By Annie Spratt • 4 min read

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