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What’s afoot?
Now I can access the measuring stick – I say stick, but it is a nine feet or so aluminium angle which […]
Category: The garden
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 comes can…”. […]
Is this a sign?
Across the stile to the pond, and begin the spring clean. There are two large beech trees by the pond and their […]
Love Island…
Don’t get too excited – I know it’s not PC, but it’s the first thing that sprang to mind. Subject = Island. […]
River update
This morning at 5.30, the river was three feet above normal. When we emerge, the first thing, almost sub-consciously, is to listen […]
Dennis more
As of dusk last night, both groundwater and river levels had fallen. The river was down to four feet above normal, and […]
Dennis 3
There’s no traffic on the A470, so it is probably closed northbound, and it is closed southbound at Builth Wells. Large HGVs […]
Dennis 2
Dawn broke to reveal a river about eight feet above normal. this is the top step of the seven or eight down […]
By special request…
the stupendous one, the ultimate showman, the dandy of the den, the one and only, ladies and gentlemen I give you… […]
Pleasant chappie…
… I think that is what he is known as. The male pheasant has up to eight female pheasants in the grounds […]