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Evening folks. A tiny bit lighter tonight I thought. I did my walk about 3:30 today and the clouds were clearing away, but the downside is that it’s going to be frosty tonight.Glad your crossing was smooth @Busy-Lizzie so I hope the drive is straightforward too. I couldn’t manage a 5 hour...

Torrential rain from 8am to 3pm with no let up.

Thirty plus years ago one October I took the train from Baden Baden changed once (I think) and went along the Rhine to Cologne where the train went along the Ruhr Valley towards Hamburg and I got off at Herford. The whole journey was fascinating, but especially along the Rhine with vineyards on...

A young priest is asked to stand in and take Mass at the local nunnery as he walks through the town a young lady calls out and asks if he'd like a quickie, he doesn't know what she means and just carries on. The Mass goes well and the Mother Superior invites him to have a sherry in her study....

Well the ground is very wet so not much. However on the way to the car I noticed that the first crocuses are coming into flower, more snowdrops have popped up and a saw the first Anemone nemorosa flower about to open. On the staging on the decking the gladioli are in full leaf and, note to self,...

My moan today is driving standards.. again.I've no clue what has happened in recent years, but it seems that a significant amount of folks have simply forgotten how to drive - the most common one I've had today has been complete failure to indicate when approaching or on a roundabout, but...

Oh, what handsome boys. I have always preferred boys.

I was looking idly at the rain out of an upper floor window an hour ago when I saw two beautiful foxes cross the garden from right to left in single file. They seemed unhurried but businesslike - straight across the garden with no hesitation or diversions.

@Fof ours aren't even showing buds! Lovely to see yours in such gorgeous colour.