The garden

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

Love Island…

Don't get too excited - I know it's not PC, but it's the first thing that sprang to mind.  Subject…

6 years ago

River update

This morning at 5.30, the river was three feet above normal.  When we emerge, the first thing, almost sub-consciously, is…

6 years ago

Dennis more

As of dusk last night, both groundwater and river levels had fallen. The river was down to four feet above…

6 years ago

Dennis 3

There’s no traffic on the A470, so it is probably closed northbound, and it is closed southbound at Builth Wells.…

6 years ago

Dennis 2

Dawn broke to reveal a river about eight feet above normal. this is the top step of the seven or…

6 years ago

By special request…

the stupendous one, the ultimate showman, the dandy of the den, the one and only, ladies and gentlemen I give…

6 years ago

Pleasant chappie…

… I think that is what he is known as.  The male pheasant has up to eight female pheasants in…

6 years ago