The dry October meant that many trees in the garden seemed to have given up the ghost after the late Spring but good Summer, so an early leaf fall occurred.
The remaining leaves are a riot this morning, Remembrance Sunday. This is our stile with its finger post resurrected from the wood yard that was refurbishing them – “Newbridge on Wye 1/4 mile”!
The cockchafer or the ‘doodlebug’, a nickname later given to the V-1 flying bomb of WWII…
The time is late afternoon, the date is early May, after some heavy rain and…
Our wild flower meadow and orchard is a riot of colour and activity from the…
and the Turkey is already fat! But rather incongruously she is in the garden! Not…
One swallow does make a late Spring. Today, 25th April, bang on target, they have…
It’s ready. It was a deadline to not miss. The cleaners have been in, the…