What a turvy-topsy world…

4 years ago

April was the driest for some years, and not for the first time we had an absence of April showers…

Bluebells.

4 years ago

Native bluebells are out and springing up in the most unlikely places. Just singles, maybe a couple or a small…

Temptation.

4 years ago

Apples are the key to Eden. The gentle hum (buzz is too noisy a word) of bees, the grasshopper chirruping,…

Doubling up.

4 years ago

Off to Andrew’s farm to top us up on barley straw. Such a cold and dry Spring has meant that…

Two into one won’t go.

4 years ago

Near the river gate we put a fence to protect the entrance from the Donks who persisted in eating the…

Fourth visit…

5 years ago

To Builth Wells vaccination centre - Sandie is having her second one. One small problem is that there are too…

Happy Easter

5 years ago

”Thank you for my Easter cards”, says Joan, 94, of Penrhyn, as she settles in to watch “The Sound of…

Frogs porn…

5 years ago

This year the frogs have been busy, as usual, doing what comes naturally which has meant that the pond has…

Spring is

5 years ago

a hatched egg. Two of these in different areas of the garden. It is difficult for our highly sophisticated and…

Mothering Sunday…

5 years ago

But not Mother’s Day, which according to this one is an “American Import”, and according to my Mother “just a…