The garden

Making the bed…

Making the bed is one of those tasks which needs doing, and the feel of freshly laundered sheets is hard…

5 years ago

Remember Polaroids?

Remember Poloaroids?  Those really compact (not), sleek (not), designed using form follows function principles (not), anyway they worked and this…

5 years ago

Statuesque Sycamores

Our statuesque sycamores against the bluest of blue skies.  No aircraft con-trails either.  We had a tree surgeon give us…

5 years ago

Remember tadpoles?

Do you remember tadpoles from your youth?  The pond is looking good, ir overgrown with cotton heads and fresh water…

5 years ago

Can spring be far…

Can Spring be far behind?  Part 2 of the video.  Albeit slowly, just these last couple of days, it’s as…

5 years ago

A bit of sun, and we all feel happier…

Well apart from the gardener that is.  Let’s assume it’s concentration and not auto suggest working on the compost heap! …

5 years ago

Cummings and goings.

Bit political there - did you see?  viz - the resignation speech of the former Chancellor.  Anyway, to more important…

6 years ago

What’s afoot?

Now I can access the measuring stick - I say stick,  but it is a nine feet or so aluminium…

6 years ago

Can spring be far behind?

Not quite what poet Percy Bysshe Shelley said, the full, correct, version that a poetryphile would recognise is “if winter…

6 years ago

Is this a sign?

Across the stile to the pond, and begin the spring clean.  There are two large beech trees by the pond…

6 years ago