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Up Close and Personal

I have bought a new lens for my posh camera. So I can look closer. And be more personal. It is not however a posh lens. In fact it was quite cheap. Possibly too cheap. We will see. It may involve practice and patience. Oh dear.

Guest Star

For those of you bored by yet more bluebells, to liven things up a little, I have invited a guest star to the tableau. Drum roll please ….. At great personal expense (two apples) and especially for your delectation, here is the lovely Pip to further enhance the already splendid scene. He is looking very fetchingContinue reading “Guest Star”

Aflutter

My heart is aflutter.

Nameless

For various reasons, many of which may appear to be a product of my fertile imagination but are in fact quite true, I haven’t tended Mr and Mrs Bun’s garden for a month. The upshot of this was that my visit today was full of discovery. Some things have bloomed and bolted. Much has grown, as is only rightContinue reading “Nameless”

Wonder Woman

An interesting start to my day. I was driving along in my automobile, my baby beside me at the wheel. That last bit isn’t true. I was all by myself, heartily accompanying “Daniel O’Donnell Sings Iron Maiden”. Mind you, one is never alone with the big O’D. If my memory serves me correctly, at theContinue reading “Wonder Woman”

Bowling Green

My kind of lawn.

A Walk in the Woods

A few months ago I was dismayed to hear someone on the television, allegedly a wildlife expert, say “I hate grey squirrels” and then proceed to character assassinate this creature who never asked to be introduced to this country and is just trying its best to survive like the rest of us. It is not evil.Continue reading “A Walk in the Woods”

Gone Fishing

Lady Mantle went fishing today. More accurately she went skimming. The pond has become a little green in recent weeks, caused by a film of dastardly duckweed, not an ideal look for a healthy water feature. So Her Ladyship put on her wellies (for aesthetic affect only, she didn’t actually enter the water, although it wasContinue reading “Gone Fishing”

Kilver Court Garden, Somerset

I tend to divide my friends up into categories. As well as divisions of personality such as “sophisticated” (not many of these), “artistic” (quite a few), “dangerous” (enough) and “grown ups” (a couple), there are tribe types such as “sporting”, “virtual” “work”, “school” and of course “horticultural”. Sometimes they stray into more than one department,Continue reading “Kilver Court Garden, Somerset”

Up and Downs

A day of ups and downs at The Farm. Ups: In the orchard two of the new apples trees, Tom Putt and Farmer’s Glory, have unexpected blossom. A pretty adolescent cat lurked about the site, tortoiseshell and rather timid. The quince tree beautifully floriferous. Plug plants arrived, including Pelargonium ‘Orange Fizz’ and Lophos ‘Wine Red’. IContinue reading “Up and Downs”