. . . 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...

A Fritillary and a memory of Robin Tanner

It is Spring gift-time again! The arrival of this Snakeshead Fritillary (just the one but all the more wondrous for that) beside our pond not only gladdens the heart with its fragile beauty but also reminds us of the legacy of Robin Tanner . . . his consummate...