Elder is one of my favourite trees. It has beautiful creamy flower umbels early in the summer which are a magnet for insects followed by dee...

Come back Rain, all is forgiven Hot sunny days and lockdown have meant that I don't particularly have to work around the weather or othe...

Monday 12th March 2018 ROAD CLOSED - that's what the sign read outside our house. I had been waiting for this, my chance to take off t...

  Sue has been getting saucy. At the back, from left to right, we have Pontack Sauce, Sweet Chilli Sauce and home-made Brown Sauce. At...

 Friday 20th July 2012 My birthday! I have not mentioned this before, but I do in fact hold the secret of eternal youth. For last ye...

Wednesday 20th June 2012 Summer Solstice. Rhubarab, rhubarb, rhubarb... Rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb...