Doings

Apres le parapluie…

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

2 days ago

Pannage…

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

1 month ago

0.2 degrees…

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

1 month ago

Been and gone and done it…

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

1 month 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…

1 month ago

Fare thee well…

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

2 months ago

Malvern…

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

4 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…

4 months ago

Quercus, an oak…

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

4 months 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…

5 months ago