Recent Posts

My current pet peeve with our surgery is telephone appointments. They won't even commit to AM or PM for the call. That really means you can't go out unless you are happy for anybody within earshot to know about your medical situation. They don't tell all patients who are having face-to-face...

Good morning all.The journey to Brighton went smoothly yesterday. I thought there was a lot of traffic but Cedric said it wasn't bad. I'm used to France and Norfolk! The hospital car park was nearly full, a bit confusing and very expensive. I don't think they should charge so much. They are...

Sunny with a light breeze. The Collared Doves have been chattering for hours. A warm day forecast, perhaps 23/24c,

I was very fortunate to get an image of a coyote this winter, as they are very wary.Evidence indicates that coyotes reached New York and the Northeast in the early 1930s and 1940s, with coyote range expansion first reaching the state by passing north of the Great Lakes and into northern New...

I agree, @GreenFingeredPete and When we went to Great Comp it was summer and the dahlias and salvias were flowering. It was beautiful.

Myosotis sylvatica (Forget-me-not)Euonymus fortuneiBrunnera Macrophylla 'Jack Frost'Saxifraga urbium (London Pride) and hailstonesEpimedium

Durlston Country Park cliffs. Razorbills.Northern Fulmar Petrel.Guillemots.One in a hundred or so has a white eye ring and known as a Bridled Guillemot but spectacled would be a more apt description.

Not much just topped up the blueberry pots with fresh compost.

Give me a few days ( weeks/months ?) to digest that and I'll try again. It is frustrating and I sometimes wish I was back in the '70's when I had "proper" cameras, my own dark room and developed and printed my own pics. I knew what I was doing then

Yes that was him @CarolineL . He was very knowledgeable but he didn't mention Dendelions.Very interesting @NigelJ ...@On the Levels My mother said she used to make sandwiches of Dendelion leaves when she was little, much to the disgust of my grandmother !

I brought something quite nice for my allotment area.. I has previously been looking for Gardenia 'Crown Jewel', but at the local nursery I stumbled upon a cultivar I had not heard of before; Gardenia 'Double Diamond', so I purchased it without second thought. It is fairly cold hardy but more...

Thanks Simply stunning photography. That bark spider is ridiculous!