The Changing Seasons ~ Wenlock In June
The header photo was taken early on Friday evening, after my orchid hunt on Windmill Hill. It was hot on the hill, the light reflecting off the windmill’s masonry. No shade up there, only sweeping...
View ArticleWhat A Good Yarn! Knitting Bombs in Bishops Castle
Well you can’t help but think it, can you: would that all bombing were so beautifully harmless and smile-inducing. In my last post I mentioned our ‘guerrilla garden’, but here we have a spot of...
View ArticleBugs In My Borders And More About Climate Change
It’s cool today after yesterday’s roasting, and thinking is easier. I’m still brooding on Boris Johnson’s climate change contentions (quote and article link in previous post) and it occurs to me that...
View ArticleThe Changing Seasons ~ July’s High-Summer Gold
Without a doubt July’s stars in the-garden-over-the-fence are the Dyer’s Chamomile daisies, also known as Golden Marguerite (Anthemis tinctoria). They have flowered and flowered for weeks now, spilling...
View ArticleAn Elephant In The Garden?
That would be of the hawk-moth variety, Deilephila elpenor. The elephant in the name is not due to its size, though with a wingspan of one and half to two and half inches (45-60mm) it is quite large,...
View ArticleMonday Musings: A World Worth Saving? And Why Aren’t Our Leaders Taking...
And so asks Greta Thunberg: Because there’s so much we could be doing and now. See the UN’s Climate Action site: https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/climate-action-areas.shtml Meanwhile this is what...
View ArticleThoughts From The Blue Glass Sea
Yesterday, 20th September 2019 when young people around the world were on strike to urge politicians to start telling the truth about climate emergency and to take action NOW to save their future, I...
View ArticleScenes From The Realm Of Ancestors
Two thousand years ago the people who lived within the mountain hillfort of Carn Ingli (seen here in the distance) would have looked down on this 5,500 year-old chambered tomb of Pentre Ifan. Back...
View ArticleWhat Next: A Cloud Of Herring?
Once it was said the hauls of herring landed at Fishguard were so great that the fields of West Wales were spread with the excess catch. And if this sounds balmy, decomposing fish would make a good...
View ArticleAbermawr Cove ~ It’s The Seal’s Whiskers
It was hard to tear myself away from Tregwynt Mill; unexpected burst of hot September sun or no, there was a strong inclination to curl up among Welsh tweed quilts and cushions on the showroom bed. To...
View ArticleSticks, Clogs, Ribbons And Bells ~ Yesterday Was A Big Hurrah For Apples At...
The Ironmen lining up. And the Severn Gilders Morris doing their stuff: While the band played: And apples were pressed: And unusual varieties identified: And home-made cakes and roast pork buns...
View ArticlePower Lines ~ Ironbridge Switch-Off
Ironbridge Power Station has run out of steam, its huge cooling towers presently stark monuments to the era of dirty energy, an era that kicked off in this very valley, the Ironbridge Gorge, where in...
View ArticleThe Night Ploughing
It was the strangest thing – to look out on the nightscape behind the house where there are no roads or houses as far as the Edge, which itself drops a thousand feet through near vertical woodland to...
View ArticleTop Viewing ~ The Dyfi Ospreys Are Back
This week I’ve rather fallen by the wayside with Becky’s Square Tops challenge, but I had to post this for the final day. And to say a big thank you to Becky for being such a top host and giving us...
View ArticleWorld Bee Day Today 20th May
I’ve written lots about bees on this blog, and I guess most people who come here know how important they are to human existence; their overall busy bee-ness and the way they pollinate flowers that...
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