Substitute drizzle for rain. Insert “days” for day. Call it floated rather than came with its biblical sound, and you have a fifteen millimetre or so 24 hours gently inserting itself into the rock hard ground. Lovely. Away on the […]
The mythological bird called the Phoenix was consumed by flames and was reborn [again] (Google version – you can’t be reborn again!) out of its ashes. A little less fanciful is the burnt gorse bushes on the banks of the […]
A twmffat is Welsh for funnel, an affectionate name for a complete eejit! Said entity decided to camp on the bank of the Wye, hence deserving the entirely Welsh description. Not much affection around here for the person who also […]
Impatiens glandulifera, Himalayan balsam, is a large annual plant native to the Himalayas. Via human introduction it is now present across much of the Northern Hemisphere and is considered an invasive species in many areas. Uprooting or cutting the plants […]
A gulp of Cormorants. Apparently that’s the collective noun; or a swim (I like that). A gulp mirrors their head throwback as they eat their catch. More accurately, this tryst should be named a pair because with a bit of […]
More fishy goings on in our pond. There was I observing the frogspawn and my eye was caught by something obviously animal, in a sea of vegetable and mineral. On investigation it appears to be a decomposing chicken leg/thigh complete […]
Is river rock-pooling a thing? It is on the Wye, especially when the frogs are cosying up and spawning yet more frogs. Unfortunately, not all their mating comes to fruition, nor indeed comes to laying. I know I post these […]
Yes, there are dull days in January. Dull, dreary, dreich, cold, freezing, snowy (or “wintry mix” as Apple weather app calls it), but there are bright days too, and today is an example. *”The Darkling Thrush”, Hardy. The sun has […]
The “foreign” blackbirds haven’t arrived yet, so the evenings are less noisy with the sounds of the locals staking out territory. The Redwings and Fieldfares are similarly on the visitor list seeking overnight Airbnb facilities. Comforting to know then that […]
The first frost of the year and Dol-y-Fan is looking good in the early morning sun. Not a deep one, but enough to remind one to keep gloves close, and the cloth cap is an improvement on the baseball variety.