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Apres le parapluie…

Apres le parapluie. Doesn’t make any sense, really, but saying it convinces me I can speak fluently and effortlessly ,…

8 months ago

Pannage…

Pannage is the name in the New Forest for anti-acorn operations, when pigs are allowed on to the common land…

9 months ago

0.2 degrees…

This morning, the first cold morning of the winter, coincided with the Autumn Equinox. The weather for this week is…

10 months ago

Been and gone and done it…

All STC of course. Been here nine years on Saturday.

10 months ago

Apples galore

We’ve done very well this year, and time to pick the Cox’s Orange which we inherited. The Donkeys have been…

10 months ago

Fare thee well…

Merryhall. If all goes to plan we are moving, hoping to move is more accurate; never tempt providence! We wish…

10 months ago

Malvern…

Ninety minutes or so away is the Victorian/Edwardian town of Great Malvern. And what a pleasant, clean, well maintained, freshly…

12 months ago

Pepys, the diarist…

Started chapters like so. “To Oswestry…”. So I did. But why, I hear you WhatsApp, because it’s there as Hilary…

1 year ago

Quercus, an oak…

by any other name. Browsing the local Facebook group (useful for local news, gossip and buy and sell) and this…

1 year ago

Early longest-day morning…

Early longest-day morning. Can I say that? Goosander family spooked by my minuscule appearance: a hundred yards away, barely visible…

1 year ago