The Cockchafer..
The cockchafer or the ‘doodlebug’, a nickname later given to the V-1 flying bomb of WWII for their similarities in sound made during flight. […]
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🎵 Guantanamera…
… by The Sandpipers. They call it the sand piper, because it does what it says in the book. There is a […]
Hot summer nights…
… sang Neil Diamond. As we know, getting to sleep is hard, so ‘er indoors likes to sleep with nothing on, and […]
Weeeeeeeed!
We’ve got our own bright and bouncy sunflower 🌻. “Dah, flobadob!”
Blacking up…
… with bitumen. A second coat for the barn roof. At least you can see what I’ve done,
The road to nowhere…
… or Aberystwith, as we know it. An amazingly large, and possibly soulless, space opened a year or so ago, and we […]
Flaked out
Now that Simon has enhanced the hedge and reinforced the post structure, the dogs have been allowed into the main garden. The […]
More anti-dog work
I’m not sure that’s the correct way of putting it, but we’re replacing thirty or so years old posts with new, taller […]
Going to the dogs
Just fenced the wild flower meadow, so it can double up as a Donks grazing area and a recreational area for the […]
Ready, set, go!
Ready and waiting for a walk.
Carnival
The last Saturday in June is always the Newbridge on Wye Carnival, and since January we’ve been on the important steering committee. […]