Helen Clayton

🔒 Manual approval

@helenclayton@mas.to

Walker, bimbler, nature lover, home baker and inexpert gardener. Toot musings mostly on those subjects but political opinions may slip in. Member of the Green Party and proud member of the wokerati. Devon born and raised, now living in West Wales, UK.

Work for the Open Spaces Society, protecting public access to paths & open spaces.  
Views very much my own.
She/her.

Profile pic: Head shot of me - a middle-aged white woman wearing a green tweed hat, grey scarf and a dark winter jacket, standing in front of a green and brown moorland hillside.
Banner: Landscape photo of wild, wide open moorland under blue skies, a few puffs of white cloud. A path, bounded by granite marker stones, leading off into the distance.
Currently reading: How To Kill a Witch: A Guide for the Patriarchy by Claire Mitchell KC and Zoe Venditozzi
Just My Toots: https://justmytoots.com/@helenclayton@mas.to

4Posts

0Following 0Followers

2026-07-05T12:01:27Z

Helen Clayton@helenclayton@mas.to

20h

#SilentSunday #BloomScrolling

A photo of a dahlia flower, with orange-pink outer petals surrounding a double rust coloured centre. Other buds on slender, slightly drooping stems still to open. Behind, out of focus, are two taller bluish purple dahlia flowers and to the left a cream coloured cosmos. In the background is a wooden framed greenhouse

2026-07-03T18:46:56Z

Helen Clayton@helenclayton@mas.to

I had a much needed dose of nature today.

#walking #cymru

A photo from a mountain ridge cupping a lake in a cwm formed by a glacier. A steep, rock escarpment rises up above the lake on the left, the layers of rock softened by lush green vegetation. Long grass blown by the wind in the foreground. The sky is cloudy, though it was a short cloudy interlude in an otherwise sunny day. Countryside spreads out in the distance like a hazy green patchwork quilt.

2026-07-04T10:05:23Z

Helen Clayton@helenclayton@mas.to

I got caught in traffic on my way home yesterday.

As the farmer thanked me for waiting, he said I’d sleep well 😅.

#Defaidodon #SheepOfMastodon

Photo taken through windscreen of a car. A farmer with a quad bike is blocking the end of the narrow lane where it joins another narrow lane. Coming down the lane towards us is a large flock of sheep that look freshly marked with blue ‘w’s and some look freshly shorn. They fill the width of the lane. Some are having a snack en route, nibbling the hedges. The leaders are turning into a field gateway opposite the junction in front of my car. Another quad bike and trail bike are herding them along. Several cars follow on behind. The sky is blue with fluffy white clouds, slightly tinted through the windscreen.

2026-07-04T18:34:35Z

Helen Clayton@helenclayton@mas.to

I did a rather absentminded online grocery order this week with the result that we now have 1.5kg of butter. I didn’t know that butter could be bought in 500g packs. Assumed they were always 250g. Oh well, cakes it is then.