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Home Sweet Home

For the last few days I have been visiting the town I used to call home. Although it isn’t where I was born, it is where I grew up. It is where I ticked off many milestones on my journey to the place I am today. When I am not there it is a just a memory, albeit it a fine one,Continue reading “Home Sweet Home”

Waiting

Is she on her way home yet?

Holiday

Another dowdy day; well dowdy by name but not by nature. I awoke this morning hoping it was Saturday but knowing that it seldom is. Rather than a dawn chorus my awakening accompaniment was the dulcet tones of next doors scaffolding being dismantled. Past the clunks and crashes, chatter and clatter, my bat ears were honed past the ladsContinue reading “Holiday”

Viola

When all else fails the cheery face of a viola bloom will do the trick. I will leave you contemplating its beauty.

First Frost

We arrived home late last night, late for us lightweights at any rate. The sky was a studded with a neck aching amount of stars proclaiming the promise of plummeting temperature. After satisfying my compulsion to point out Orion and The Plough (the only constellations I know) to the amazement of no one, we dived into theContinue reading “First Frost”

Sophora

It may be a tatty sophora, but it is my sophora and I love it.

Web

Dodging the showers today I found respite in L&L’s greenhouse. On the bench top these delicate succulents languished, also sheltering from the weather. The diaphanous cowls made me question; what, why and how? What is the name of these curious plants, why do these fine webs tether each corner and how do they produce this silk-like substance? Answers wouldContinue reading “Web”

Ducks

At least they were happy.

GM

I slipped in the mud whilst pushing a wheelbarrow down a grassy slope. Luckily I have been genetically modified for these eventualities.

Confuse

There are no photographs to record my day. This is an unusual event, I do love a photo opportunity. It is true that I often abuse my camera, it is tricky not to get a little mud/cake/noxious substances on/in it when taking pictures whilst working in a garden. Today, however, things were little extreme to attempt it,Continue reading “Confuse”