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Hot weather
Hot weather on the way, and we don’t like it. We generally don’t stop, there’s always jobs to be done, animals to […]
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Postpone the pee…
Pause the poo, shudder at the thought of shower. We(e) forgot to book the sewage man! Should be done every twelve months, […]
I’ve taken up jigsaws…
Man-sized ones! Underneath the Sycamores is a stone circle which has become overgrown and weedy. “What shall we do about that?”, chief […]
Barn painting
It’s that time again and the barn roof needs painting. I did it three years or so ago, and used bitumen which […]
Shear joy.
The shear joy of taking your coat off on a warm spring day. To cast off the dirty, cumbersome, restricting, weighty history […]
A new broom.
A new broom sweeps clean, so they say (Ed. – Who’s they? Need some attribution here), but when to replace? My parents […]
Edgin’ our beds
Well, everything’s gone mad! Dry April, wetter than usual May, and more to the point, it was colder than usual. Got away […]
Frozen peas
Strange old year “weatherwise” (dislike that habit of adding “wise” to words – my temperaturewise rises). Almost no rain in April and […]
The Lark descending.
I haven’t seen or heard a Lark for years, and now I’ve taken a photo of one I still can’t see it. […]
Boom boody-boom, boody-boom, boody-boom…
“Oh! Doctor, I’ve a problem”. “Oh! Goodness gracious me, how outrageous…” as Peter Seller’s song went. The meerest breath, the intake, the […]
The Spanish variant…
Is taking over and there’s nothing we can do. No anecdote about sombreros, no antidotes or arm filling, no detracting word will […]