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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 , and it […]
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What a turvy-topsy world…
April was the driest for some years, and not for the first time we had an absence of April showers – ideal […]
Bluebells.
Native bluebells are out and springing up in the most unlikely places. Just singles, maybe a couple or a small batch of […]
Temptation.
Apples are the key to Eden. The gentle hum (buzz is too noisy a word) of bees, the grasshopper chirruping, a Blackbird […]
Doubling up.
Off to Andrew’s farm to top us up on barley straw. Such a cold and dry Spring has meant that the animals […]
Two into one won’t go.
Near the river gate we put a fence to protect the entrance from the Donks who persisted in eating the foliage. Problem. […]
Fourth visit…
To Builth Wells vaccination centre – Sandie is having her second one. One small problem is that there are too many arms […]
Happy Easter
”Thank you for my Easter cards”, says Joan, 94, of Penrhyn, as she settles in to watch “The Sound of Music” for […]
Frogs porn…
This year the frogs have been busy, as usual, doing what comes naturally which has meant that the pond has its ration […]
Spring is
a hatched egg. Two of these in different areas of the garden. It is difficult for our highly sophisticated and intelligent brains […]
Mothering Sunday…
But not Mother’s Day, which according to this one is an “American Import”, and according to my Mother “just a catch-Penny”. My […]