and Christmas is on the horizon.
The backdrop of Llysdinam hill and its Larches (no. 1, the Larch) are now fading. The weather forecast is for colder temperatures and last night although the air temperature was 3.8 degrees, the windscreens and puddles are frozen.
Meanwhile, at the back of the cottage, in the garden room, the tree is being decorated. Early? Possibly, the timing is habit from running the shop and its twenty four/seven demands which meant that if it wasn’t done in early November it wouldn’t happen.
The cockchafer or the ‘doodlebug’, a nickname later given to the V-1 flying bomb of WWII…
The time is late afternoon, the date is early May, after some heavy rain and…
Our wild flower meadow and orchard is a riot of colour and activity from the…
and the Turkey is already fat! But rather incongruously she is in the garden! Not…
One swallow does make a late Spring. Today, 25th April, bang on target, they have…
It’s ready. It was a deadline to not miss. The cleaners have been in, the…