🎵 “We’re having a heatwave,
A tropical heatwave “. Day 4 or 5, and it’s set to continue. Temperatures at or just below thirty degrees, no clouds in a sky so blue it is impossible to photograph because you would think I’ve photoshopped it. No […]
It’s Carnival!!
Did we mention we got co-opted on to the Newbridge carnival committee? Well we did! Always the last Saturday in June, so last Saturday was spent putting up bunting All the other members use it as an opportunity to dress […]
🎵 Guantanamera…
… by The Sandpipers. They call it the sand piper, because it does what it says in the book. There is a pair by the river gate with a newly hatched chick. One stands off, usually on a rock in […]
Hot summer nights…
… sang Neil Diamond. As we know, getting to sleep is hard, so ‘er indoors likes to sleep with nothing on, and nothing covering her, legs in the air in a most provocative manner… … Rosie, bless ‘er!
Weeeeeeeed!
We’ve got our own bright and bouncy sunflower 🌻. “Dah, flobadob!”
Blacking up…
… with bitumen. A second coat for the barn roof. At least you can see what I’ve done,
The road to nowhere…
… or Aberystwith, as we know it. An amazingly large, and possibly soulless, space opened a year or so ago, and we discovered it is paired with a very impressive M&S, which is beautifully presented, and which if rolled out […]
Flaked out
Now that Simon has enhanced the hedge and reinforced the post structure, the dogs have been allowed into the main garden. The borders are looking their best at the moment.
More anti-dog work
I’m not sure that’s the correct way of putting it, but we’re replacing thirty or so years old posts with new, taller ones with line wire across the top to increase the height Simon and his Dad Barrie (an enthusiastic […]