Doings

Barn painting

It’s that time again and the barn roof needs painting. I did it three years or so ago, and used…

5 years ago

Shear joy.

The shear joy of taking your coat off on a warm spring day. To cast off the dirty, cumbersome, restricting,…

5 years ago

A new broom.

A new broom sweeps clean, so they say (Ed. - Who’s they? Need some attribution here), but when to replace?…

5 years ago

Edgin’ our beds

Well, everything’s gone mad! Dry April, wetter than usual May, and more to the point, it was colder than usual.…

5 years ago

Frozen peas

Strange old year “weatherwise” (dislike that habit of adding “wise” to words - my temperaturewise rises). Almost no rain in…

5 years ago

The Lark descending.

I haven’t seen or heard a Lark for years, and now I’ve taken a photo of one I still can’t…

5 years ago

Boom boody-boom, boody-boom, boody-boom…

“Oh! Doctor, I’ve a problem”. “Oh! Goodness gracious me, how outrageous...” as Peter Seller’s song went. The meerest breath, the…

5 years ago

The Spanish variant…

Is taking over and there’s nothing we can do. No anecdote about sombreros, no antidotes or arm filling, no detracting…

5 years ago

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…

5 years ago

Bluebells.

Native bluebells are out and springing up in the most unlikely places. Just singles, maybe a couple or a small…

5 years ago