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Survived

We have just returned from the Edinburgh Fringe. We survived. Not the festival, I had every faith we would return tired but relatively unscathed. It was everything I thought it would be and more – crazy crowded, cosmopolitan, chaotic and great fun. We had a wonderful few days with some of my family and didContinue reading “Survived”

Six on Saturday – Anarchy

I’m not very happy with my garden at the moment, and I’m sure the garden would say exactly the same about me. I have once again slipped into a cycle of neglect – no dead heading, no slug watch, no bother. And it shows. Anarchy has ensued. My Six on Saturday this week is aContinue reading “Six on Saturday – Anarchy”

Contrasts

Today’s perpetual rain was a great contrast to the warming sun and frisky breezes of yesterday. I thought another “bee on flower” photo might redress the balance, if only a little.

Shag Pile

A wonderful violet, deepest of deep, shag pile carpet. And bee.

Un-Blue

Today there was plenty of blue sky to raise our spirits, a good working day with just a tease of a shower this morning. The return to summer was short-lived as the skies have already filled with grey cloud and gloom. It will be much harder to un-blue this salvia.

Birthday Blog

Today is my birthday. I love birthdays. I may have mentioned it before. Any excuse to be special for a day. But I am not telling you this in the faint hope you might send me a tiara or a Nebuchadnezzar of Dom Perignon. A nod and a smile would be quite enough. A kissContinue reading “Birthday Blog”

Port

Outside it is blowing and blustering and sheeting rain. Hope this little chap from earlier today has found a port in this storm.

Common

In the last few weeks I have had cause to warm to the common montbretia. Today at Westwell Hall, in glorious combination with the dark leaved elder, it looked spectacular. There is a lot to be said for being a little bit common.

Swampland

Due to a surfeit of workman and their corresponding transport, His Lordship picked me up today from the National Trust car park a mile or so from the Mantle’s Mansion This rough old patch has breath-taking views along the rugged Exmoor coast and across to Wales. A camper van was the only otherContinue reading “Swampland”

Six on Saturday – The Moment

August: ready or not here we come! Soon there will talk of cool nights and shortening days, but let us not wish our lives away. There is plenty of time left to fret about watering and dead heading and whether we have fed our tomatoes enough or are the slugs and snails attacking whilst IContinue reading “Six on Saturday – The Moment”