Hello! Thanks for dropping in. Scroll down for the next post in the series. First, I want to tell you that this is a blog for me, an exercise in observing the good things in my life, a place to practice taking and editing my own photos and then a place to just tell little… Continue reading Welcome.
Back to where it all started-2nd February 2023
Today marks the anniversary of the date I first started this blog a year ago. A candle for celebration but also a candle for today- Candlemass, Imbolic, Groundhog Day. This is the day that the ancients celebrated as the point in the year when the light could really be perceived as returning to the land… Continue reading Back to where it all started-2nd February 2023
My fundamental self-2nd January 2023
I can still remember the occasion as if it was yesterday, although it is over 60 years ago now. It happened in our living room and Mom had gotten down to my 5 year old level so she wasn’t towering over me. Good school teacher techniques. “Do you think you would like to learn to… Continue reading My fundamental self-2nd January 2023
Hang on to the good things-31st December 2022
New Year’s Eve…I am sitting at my desk and I am thinking back over the year that was, for me, a holding place, a place left at the starting blocks, a year when I never really got going properly. I KNOW I am not alone in this feeling. Several things happened today that really lifted… Continue reading Hang on to the good things-31st December 2022
Brack Bread on a Log Burner-14th December 2022
I’ve got one. My Mum had one. My Gran had one. Pretty much everyone of a certain age has had one of these enamelled roasting tins. As meat eating habits have changed over the last 20 years or so, these roasters have become less ubiquitous but now, as my new passion for learning how to… Continue reading Brack Bread on a Log Burner-14th December 2022
Where does the time go?-12th December 2022
Morning! Hot water for tea and porridge in the pan. I know, I disappeared there for a bit, but November seemed to have been wiped off the calendar for me by one of the “mega-colds” that are circulating about everywhere now. I tested and tested for Covid for about 10 days and…nada. Just a horrible… Continue reading Where does the time go?-12th December 2022
Is this really October? – 24th October 2022
As I am sure so many of us are doing now, I am looking at the leaves STILL on the trees. The small, ornamental cherry tree down there has a mop of red hair now, but the beastly sycamore next door is still fully clad in deepest green. I have a leaf bin just waiting… Continue reading Is this really October? – 24th October 2022
Adapt and repair what you already have-10th October 2022
This is a photo of one of my old compost bins. I bought these in about 2003 (?) at a local “buy everything home and garden” store. They have lived in just so many places around the garden over the years and are still hanging together in spite of it all. But, in my experience,… Continue reading Adapt and repair what you already have-10th October 2022
Meet “Ting” #2-1st October 2022
On the 20th of March of this year I posted a little thing here in the blog called “A rush of blood to the head”. It has proved to be my most liked post. I thought I would follow that one up and show you this new friend. “Ting” 2. It doesn’t “ting” in quite… Continue reading Meet “Ting” #2-1st October 2022
What is it? – 23rd September 2022
I do love taking photographs. I love how they suggest a story to me, bit by bit, that unfolds into one of these posts. I was in the garden around about 2:15 this afternoon. I spotted these things and had to photograph them. Seen as they are in this photo, they might be some sort… Continue reading What is it? – 23rd September 2022
A Nation pauses- 19th September 2022
This photo was taken on the morning of the 16th of September. It could be June. It’s as though Nature knew we might need more roses just now… The weather has taken on a morning chill and the old gardening jacket has come off its hook in the shed. The race has begun to see… Continue reading A Nation pauses- 19th September 2022
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