Richard Boden

Professional gardener. It takes 2 strong lads and a wheelbarrow.
Food; wine; craft and real ale; pubs; art; architecture; BBC R4 R6; The Archers; walking.

[Richard Boden @rabdes]

@PMGilmartin @Channel4 Thank you for your sterling public service

[Richard Boden @rabdes]

@lorrainebirder Caryopteris?

[Joe Lycett @joelycett]

I hear the press have got hold of some pictures and so I have been forced to make this statement. Needless to say, I apologise. https://t.co/mNRsQ57iTF

[Richard Boden @rabdes]

@christophhowell @JohnsGardenAsh Excellent, thank you, but shame about the autumn display!

[Richard Boden @rabdes]

Increase Tax Threshold and State Pension for Pensioners to Living Wage Amount - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/6EuPG4Np9Q via @UKChange

[John Rentoul @JohnRentoul]

What do voters do when forced to choose Con or Lab? In W Mids, voters were offered 6 candidates for mayor & just Lab & Con for PCC
Lab mayor 37.5% PCC 57.5% +20
Con mayor 37.5% PCC 42.5% +5
Ind, Reform, Green, Lib Dem mayor 25%
Analysis by David Cowling
https://t.co/1fYSnxm4DS

[Ben Walker @BNHWalker]

How my @BritainElects @NewStatesman forecast stacks up against the final results.

[Richard Boden @rabdes]

@BeerGuideLondon @NorthStarE11 It's weird isn't it, you feel like you've been teleported elsewhere. And as you say what apub!

[Jim Pickard 🐋 @PickardJE]

letter to the Times from a former Conservative MP

[Richard Boden @rabdes]

Increase State Pension to Match the Living Wage - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/41Rntd3Y8Q via @UKChange

[Richard Boden @rabdes]

@colinrtalbot Wilful ignorance?

[Richard Boden @rabdes]

@SieurdePonthieu I am sad to hear that news and I know you find so much support on here. Take care x

[Richard Boden @rabdes]

#TheArchers

[Mike Fenton Stevens💙 @fentonstevens]

My guest @AnnabelleDowler, who famously plays Kirsty in the radio drama @BBCTheArchers, tells me the five things from her life she'd like to have in a time capsule?
Listen to @MyTCpod here https://t.co/Q3DCTEjtjw

@angelabarnes @mariamcerlane @indiaknight @timbentinck Enjoy! ♥️

[Robert Peston @Peston]

At the end of an @thetimes interview today, former minister Conor Burns expresses concerns that the Tory government and the very top of the Tory party is homophobic. See attached. That feels significant

[Ben Ansell @benwansell]

Why are the Conservatives doubling down on small boats? Because that's what the voters they want to win back care about. And I'd expect continued 'greatest hits of social authoritarianism' policies. Quick thread with some data on attitudes among different types of voters. 1/n

[Richard Boden @rabdes]

@PMGilmartin I believe I still have that somewhere but I remember how expensive it was

[Richard Boden @rabdes]

@SeanDickens6 @whalebonehull Any news about it's future? 🫰

[Richard Boden @rabdes]

@fugueur

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

“Before landscapes die, they first vanish in the imagination”. This is the story of a small brook on the outskirts of London, the Aldersbrook, which has survived against the odds, but in the worst state imaginable, & my attempts to act as a guardian of this river & its rights🧵

[Richard Boden @rabdes]

@RobbieCave1 It's Cobaea scandens, the cup and suacer vine, prob the white form or can fade with age