Planting..

4 months ago
Harry

Leeks at @merryhall. Slow TV.

Fare thee well…

7 days ago

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

Malvern…

2 months ago

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

Pepys, the diarist…

3 months ago

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

Quercus, an oak…

3 months ago

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

Early longest-day morning…

3 months ago

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

Early morning…

3 months ago

Stramble, or somewhere between an amble, or a stroll, but those two words indicate an objective or purpose which is…

A Swallow doesn’t…

3 months ago

Know what it’s doing. I posted this on Facebook: “ Swallows in on my mind. They arrive here in April,…

The wild flower meadow…

4 months ago

Is coming into its own. Although any time of year is spectacular to us. But the snowdrop has given way…