Disclaimer: These pictures all taken before Storm Darragh - I haven't checked what's survived yet!My young Mahonia has just a single spray of...
Oh yes, just noticed there is not a leaf left on my trees. The hazels still had at least half theirs at the beginning of the week, and the...
Blue sky today, colder and the wind still grabs the back door out of my hand when I open it.The bird feeding station is leaning towards the east,...
Still wild here, the wind hasn't let up all day. I've been outside briefly a couple of times and had to hang on very firmly to the back door. I...
I got the red weather warning too, but I'm not in the red zone. The north coast of Somerset is, and I am about as far south as you can go in the...
I'm just on the edge of the amber warning here. Have been out in the drizzly twilight moving all the pots off my patio and into a sheltered corner...
Took advantage of the calm before the storm to dig out a small flowerbed around my new Hamamelis and plant the last 10 of my Ballerina tulip bulbs...
I'm saying that if "earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone, snow had fallen snow on snow, snow o-on snow", the grass would be covered in...
Mine is also full of woodlice and those big leopard slugs. All doing a great job, my compost has been superb this year.
Well exactly, they would be in a fold. No point being out in the fields exposed to all the wolves etc if there was no grass to eat. As Keats put...
Mine is often like that too. I think it gets too warm for them. A lot of my worms escape out of the ventilation holes and fall down into the...
Today there were two wasps enjoying the young Mahonia shrub that I planted in the spring.There was also a huge bumble bee buzzing round, a white...
That's why the carol "in the bleak midwinter" really annoys me. If the earth was hard as iron, water like a stone, snow falling snow on snow the...
I had a visit from a jay last week. I don't often see them in the garden. This one was just having a quick sit before continuing his commute. [ATTACH]
A few months ago I posted asking for help identifying a strange plant that had appeared in one of my pots and it was agreed that it was likely a...
You have to have matching Christmas Eve pyjamas now too, and give everyone a "Christmas Eve Box" which contains the pyjamas and various luxuries...
Every time I dig in my garden I bring up little strands of red tinsel. And I've lived here over 30 years and never had any tinsel.
I'm very glad I don't live anywhere near this guy:Blythe Bridge Christmas lights keeping neighbours awake at nightSome neighbours have...
Yes, I didn't get any help learning to drive from my parents. When I started work I took driving lessons and eventually passed the test at my 3rd...
We have a road with a big, wide cycle path on one side and a narrow pavement on the other. Of course, there are always cyclists on the narrow...
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