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A first of October morning walk…
… around the garden.
Category: The garden
A good morning’s work…
You know when it’s a good morning’s work when it takes the rest of the day to shred, cut, batter, burn, barrow, […]
Oh Gourd…
Or Courgette, a round variety which escaped the polytunnel and prospered in the donkey poo patch aka the dung heap.
Impatient…
Impatiens glandulifera, Himalayan balsam, is a large annual plant native to the Himalayas. Via human introduction it is now present across much […]
A Gulp of …
A gulp of Cormorants. Apparently that’s the collective noun; or a swim (I like that). A gulp mirrors their head throwback as […]
Hot weather
Hot weather on the way, and we don’t like it. We generally don’t stop, there’s always jobs to be done, animals to […]
Shy Squirrel
I’m sat on the bench by the front door (choice of two, how Port Out, Starboard Home is that? And this chap […]
Polytunnel update
Three months into playing in the tunnel, what is it looking like?
Wild Flower Meadow
The time is late afternoon, the date is early May, after some heavy rain and even some distant thunder, a stroll through […]
Whitebells…
Our wild flower meadow and orchard is a riot of colour and activity from the turn of the year. Snowdrops, crocus, daffodils […]