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I wouldn’t attempt to print it @NigelJ, you can just download the pdf to view at leisure.

We had another visit from the Long Tailed Tits this afternoon and right in front of the conservatory.10 altogether, not very clear but there are 9 in this pic, one stayed still for a minute at the back of the garden.

Evening all. @Liriodendron's news prompted me to dig out my Vitamin D prescribed in September and take that along with other vitamins and minerals to boost the old immune system. I'd forgotten how horrid it is.Anyway, much cleaning of windows and mirrors and cobwebs in between visiting the...

Back to the usual grey day here. 10C/50F.Canada seems to be suffering at the moment My daughter lives just over an hour's drive from Vancouver and this below is just 20 minutes from where she lives.

Thank you, @Michael Hewett. I got it in one of the few little independent shops left round here.

But why should charity be confined to causes close to home? Plenty of "ordinary blokes in the street" care sufficiently about the horrendous suffering in Gaza, for instance, to try to do something to relieve it. These are human beings just like us - except that we have the benefit of living in...

Got to the Allotments today, managed to cut back the Asparagus fronds and get them on a bonfire, unfortunately in spite of covering the the pile with heavy black plastic, most of the rest was too wet to burn properly. I cleared up under the fruit trees, and put some heavy cardboard down...

An amazing acacia dealbata in Richmond Some alpines at Kew alpine house Jamesbritennia Gorgeous cyclamen rohlfsianum foliage And outside, some little anemone

If you like the Shipping Forecast on Radio Four, tune in to this morning’s version in the style of Jane Austen. 7.26 to 7.28, the time.