Vicki Cooke

Community Gardener, artist, veg grower, seedsaver, mossfondler, boater

[Vicki Cooke @VixCooke]

@JosephKBennett Seed banks often seem to get targeted in war (Afghanistan, Iraq, Ukraine come to mind but sure there are more) - like a deliberate project to wipe out local knowledge and culture. Seems to speak to a sense of superiority on behalf of the coloniser that their own seeds are better

[Vicki Cooke @VixCooke]

@JosephKBennett Because I haven’t seen you in forever! Just a good collaborator really.
Let me know if you are up for future collaborations in cocktails and elaborate dinners - it has been too long.

[Vicki Cooke @VixCooke]

@JosephKBennett Woo! Happy anniversary ❤️

[Vicki Cooke @VixCooke]

@loujnicholls @PugtatoEmmet Bring back portraits of gardeners! You and Capability B have the same expression.

[Vicki Cooke @VixCooke]

@alexlizhill Yeah, doesn’t have the heartbreak. To me it sounds like the conversation you wish you had with someone. Lemonade album was her Jolene - this is someone looking back knowing that the other woman didn’t get the man.

[Plant Heritage @Plantheritage]

Delighted that Plant Heritage is awarded the UK IT Industry Charity (Third Sector) Project of the Year 2023 for Persephone plant recording system. Thanks to the team.

Image: #UKITIndustryAwards - L-R: Ellie Taylor (Event Host), Vicki Cooke, Penny Ross
#Persephoneplantrecording

[Vicki Cooke @VixCooke]

@BadHousesOfBrit Nighty-night

[Vicki Cooke @VixCooke]

@loujnicholls Ah yeah - I need to sort out another exhibition...know any galleries near you?

[Vicki Cooke @VixCooke]

@loujnicholls The eyes of a good photographer helps ;-)

[Vicki Cooke @VixCooke]

@loujnicholls Thank you for introducing me to the concept of 'mobile expressive face'. I always thought it was just a face for radio (or podcasts!)

[Vicki Cooke @VixCooke]

@loujnicholls Aha, they have managed to capture my best side ;-)

[Vicki Cooke @VixCooke]

@loujnicholls Ha, I'm in paisley brown. We'll look coordinated!

[Vicki Cooke @VixCooke]

@loujnicholls I mean, it is a dress. Not particularly posh as I want to be able to wear it again 😁

[Vicki Cooke @VixCooke]

@k_parsnips And the casual damage of empire on real people. And how repression creeps up. And what resistance feels like (cold, uncertain, at times pointless and naive)

[Vicki Cooke @VixCooke]

@k_parsnips Has extractive capitalism destroyed your planet🙋‍♀

Are the colonial occupiers destroying yr culture🙋

Is the surveillance state using any opportunity to crack down harder🙆

It's like the writers have read actual history instead of rehashing death star space wizards

[Vicki Cooke @VixCooke]

@k_parsnips I saw that at the cinema but would be unable to even give a basic plot rundown. I have thought about andor for weeks after.

[Vicki Cooke @VixCooke]

@k_parsnips Just popping up to say that Andor is the best bit of star wars ever.