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Thanks Simply stunning photography. That bark spider is ridiculous!

6c currently and feels colder. There has been rain over night and the fleece wrapped around the tree fern had some ice. 9c today, sun is shining. Warmer from Monday on, if the forecast is right. You know the models are correct but the weather doesn’t understand what it has to do

I repotted the Rangoon Creeper into a larger pot, repotted the Abutilon I did from seed and put a creeping Thyme into a wall halngng thingy .... not sure it will work but we'll see. Then just sat with Van on my lap for a while but it felt too warm at 22c although there was a light breeze.

What a wonderful display there, @Allotment Boy. Today is set aside for tending to the seedlings and weeding. I've got a beef casserole burbling in the slow cooker, to be had with jackets, so I don't have to break off and spend precious time cooking later. Well, that's the plan!

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 !

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.

Even the new vans weather it petrol or diesal are alot queiter now, and yes they motter down countryside lanes, we have the same problem and it's going to be a bad accident to sort it out, but even then people won't see what the problem is, i live on a blind bend and the amount of close one's...

More cherry trees at Capel Manor, planted as part of the Hanami project with Japan.

Not much of a joke. Too close to the bone.

White mustard will die at about -5c so it's quite good as a green manure as it'll fairly reliably be killed by winter frosts, saving having to chop and drop later. I've sown it at the same time as the garlic on the same beds and it grows a few inches then is usually dead by xmasAll my...