. . . and in less than a month . . . !

I am truly ashamed at having let so much time pass by since my last post BUT it does offer us the possibility of this piece of ‘time-lapse’ photography! I cannot remember from last year quite what its flower looks like (although I think we have quite a few...

Update on Spring

I have little doubt that folk around the world will be chewing their fingers in eagerness to know how our amazing rhubarby thing is getting on! The answer is, I reckon, . . . quite well! . . . given that the earlier photograph was taken a mere twenty-one days ago! I...

Update on Spring

I have little doubt that folk around the world will be chewing their fingers in eagerness to know how our amazing rhubarby thing is getting on! The answer is, I reckon, . . . quite well! . . . given that the earlier photograph was taken a mere twenty-one days ago! I...

Abbey with Post Office Attached

This is Frances, doing some posting (in the photograph above) and (below) getting a rare ‘post’ in edgeways! I wonder how many of all those wonderful people who order our books realise how the parcels begin their journey. Post Offices all over the country...

a matter of teeth . . .

This post is dedicated to M.G., my most excellent dentist. We have been having to see too much of each other recently but I hope that this will shortly change! Last time he carved a new tooth for me, to sit where, until then, there had been a painful and annoying...