… much like all the others really! But at this time of year it fills the visual and aural BBC airwaves with sudden and intense regurgitated nostalgia at minimum origination cost. Words like “retrospective”, “look back”, “C list celeb looking back on the highs and lows” all mask a lack of originality and bankruptcy that is Radio 4 these days.
OK, rant over! This look at 2019 through the mirror made us giggle and reminds us that although we say “where did that year go then?” it actually was twelve months worth of fun, effort, poo-picking, family, flowers and veg.
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…