Hot weather on the way, and we don’t like it. We generally don’t stop, there’s always jobs to be done,…
The time is late afternoon, the date is early May, after some heavy rain and even some distant thunder, a…
Is river rock-pooling a thing? It is on the Wye, especially when the frogs are cosying up and spawning yet…
Yes, there are dull days in January. Dull, dreary, dreich, cold, freezing, snowy (or “wintry mix” as Apple weather app…
There’s snow warning like no warning, like no warning we know. Not had one this early in winter before. “We’re…
The “foreign” blackbirds haven’t arrived yet, so the evenings are less noisy with the sounds of the locals staking out…
Of gorse it is in flower, at this time of year. Remarkable as it seems, differing bushes, or even stems,…
Apres le parapluie. Doesn’t make any sense, really, but saying it convinces me I can speak fluently and effortlessly ,…
Pannage is the name in the New Forest for anti-acorn operations, when pigs are allowed on to the common land…