Where are you looking? This week: Where are you looking when you walk?; It’s the 1st August; Disappointing germination; 2025 weather; We had some lovely and much needed rain on Saturday night and again on Monday night and into Tuesday … Read More
Feeling completely conflicted This week: Feeling completely conflicted; One decision made; Digging up bulbs; This week has again been hot. Very hot in fact. This afternoon when I was outside sorting bulbs, my digital thermometer registered 36.7°C in the shade. … Read More
Smoke in the sky! This week: Smoke in the sky!; When you need a tool; Labelling up; Sunset Postscript; Today is Midsummer’s Day, the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere and it is hot. I was up … Read More
What an awful winter This week: What an awful winter; Complex statistical analysis; Last week I said that I thought that we would have another unsettled week this week and we have. We have received a total of 60 mm … Read More
A flooding emergency This week: A flooding emergency; Mopping up operations; Progress in the polytunnel; Sunday started off as a very pleasant day. Just before lunch I took my parabolic microphone and digital recorder along the old donkey track, to … Read More
Pruning fruit trees with a chainsaw This week: Pruning fruit trees with a chainsaw; ; I’m struggling to fathom where times goes to. Already it is Saturday afternoon again and with it comes finishing this week’s blog. Last weekend, I … Read More
We’re having Pups! This week: Pruning is well under way; We’re having Pups!; It is the end of another week. I really do not know where time goes, however it passes with unrelenting speed. We have had a damp week, … Read More
Between Alchemy and a Dark art This week: Our strange winter weather; Between Alchemy and a Dark art; More on weather and climate; Well, I’ve survived the first week of 2025. To celebrate New Year’s Day, I was out in … Read More
Just one of 5 reasons This week: An awful eyesore; Dismantling not demolition; Just one of 5 reasons; Cool winter nights; Here we are once again on Saturday afternoon! They seem to come around with frightful regularity… My oldest feline … Read More
Time for an Autumn clean-up This week: Time for an Autumn clean-up; Celestial events; Once again I am struggling to make sense of the data my weather station is producing. After a month of below average temperatures, once again temperatures … Read More