Posted in Days Out, Eating Out, friends, garden, home, photography on 31 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Angel Seat, The Chalice Well, Glastonbury
When I went to Glastonbury today with my friends from Scotland Lorraine said she’d like to visit the Chalice Well, which is en route to the Tor. I’d never been there before and we were given a friendly welcome on the gate before strolling into the garden itself. It immediately [...]
Posted in Things that cause me amusement, garden, home on 30 July 2008 | 1 Comment »
For Gordon’s 50th birthday last year I bought him an inflatable hot-tub. He’s always had a hankering for a hot-tub but the ‘real’ ones are way out of our price range so when I came across this one I thought it would be the perfect gift for a landmark birthday. He was thrilled with it, [...]
Posted in Eating Out, friends, home, photography on 30 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We were visited today by my Scottish penfriend Lorraine and her fiance Andrew so I thought I’d post this photo of a thistle in their honour. It’s always a bit nerve-wracking to meet a penfriend although this is the second time I’ve met Lorraine since 1993 when we started writing. The last time was about [...]
Posted in garden, photography on 28 July 2008 | 1 Comment »
Why do you suppose this plant looks so picturesque when it’s growing in a hedgerow and so evil when it’s choking the life out of your garden plants?
One of life’s mysteries!
Posted in home on 27 July 2008 | 3 Comments »
Not much happened on Friday so I didn’t bore you with that. Yesterday we spent the day socialising, something we do now and again, although not as often as I’d like. This is Gordon and my friend (and fellow grove-dweller) Vivien although I’m not quite sure what they’re discussing. If Gordon was a fisherman, I’d [...]
Posted in Things that cause me amusement, farm, home, photography on 25 July 2008 | 2 Comments »
Hung on the wall of an outbuilding and forgotten about, this brush reminded me of a blue flower: indeed, while small within the camera screen that’s exactly what it looked like. The texture’s great though, isn’t it?
When I went down the road the signs had been resurrected after being toppled by the mower. I don’t [...]
Posted in Things that cause me amusement, photography on 23 July 2008 | 1 Comment »
Blackberries-to-be
Yesterday while driving home we were overrun with signs about resurfacing the road although the only evidence we could see was a lighter colour on the surface of the side lanes that lead off our main road and reach dead-ends. Today a tractor and hedger/flailer came along to cut the sides of the road. What [...]
Posted in Days Out, family, farm, friends, home, photography, shopping on 23 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Gordon brought a cow and calf back this morning and (as usual) following a quick phone call I was out there shutting or opening relevant gates so she would only go where she was supposed to. My neighbour stopped to chat while I was waiting for the cow to appear round the corner. I wanted [...]
Posted in family on 21 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Steph is still camping in the Brecon Beacons although she contacted me yesterday with some bad news. One of her team mates has injured his knee badly and is unable to continue so I think they’re being added to another team. Not allowed to travel/trek in odd numbers apparently. According to Steph, Jack was ‘blown’ [...]
Posted in crafts, cross-stitch on 20 July 2008 | 1 Comment »
Some time just after Christmas last year, I stopped stitching. I’d been working on various cross-stitch projects almost continuously from the early 1990s and producing large pictures at the rate of about three a year, but suddenly I wasn’t enjoying it any more. It was almost as if the whole idea of picking up my [...]
