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October - and it was all yellow (again).
October 31, 2022 - October.
Historically, THE month which starts with pretty-well all the leaves on the trees and ends with pretty-well no...
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(Baa-dee-ya. Dancin' in...) September.
October 01, 2022 - In a typically (and depressingly) British fashion I will begin this month's round-up blog post by writing that "BLIMEY!...
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March. And it was all yellow.
April 01, 2022 - March then.
The month where I start to get excited.
The month in which Spring errr… springs into life.
The month in w...
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February. Up go the larks.
March 01, 2022 - February then.
The daffs are (of course) up all over the place and the first crocuses are pushing through the garden (s...
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Not as planned.
March 14, 2020 - Mid March then, and as normal this is EXACTLY the time of year that "our" frogs start spawning in the garden.
Only THIS...
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Four days before (astronomical) spring starts - and the garden springs into life.
March 16, 2019 - “There’s one antidote to gloom and despair that never fails: the wildlife that got us all going in the first place. It’s...
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The Biblical plague. Again.
March 14, 2018 - Last year I wrote about the biblical plague of frogs that befell us in mid March - and this year is no different.
Wel...
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Orgy. Orgy. Orgy. Oi. Oi. Oi.
March 12, 2017 - “There’s one antidote to gloom and despair that never fails: the wildlife that got us all going in the first place. It’s...
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Querquedula doo. (My dame has lost her shoe).
April 06, 2015 - Things are afoot, grapple fans.
Things are… happening.
Spring is springing and the cockerels are crowing.
Not just th...
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Have you got herpes?
March 25, 2015 - Well… not specifically you – I'd not have got your attention without the "you" and you’d probably already know if you ha...
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Patience, child.
February 18, 2015 - View from the Ridgeway. Winter.
I don’t suppose I’m known for my patience. I certainly think of myself as a pretty...
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For forty days it’ll rain nae mare....?
July 17, 2013 - Monday, (July 15 th) was the date on which we used to feast for St.Swithun – a Bishop of Winchester in the mid 800s.
On...
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End of the Olympics...
August 12, 2012 - The weather has been great for the last few days - in fact, to be fair, it's not rained much at all since the schools (a...
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Wild things. You make my heart sing.
July 26, 2012 - I got up extremely early again this morning (before dawn) as I had another blood test to be done (ongoing investigations...
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Flash floods again – it must be Wimbledon fortnight…
June 29, 2012 - To be fair, the rain (and there’s been plenty of it again in the midlands and north of the country) hasn’t really affect...
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A warm week ends with a day of sleet
March 04, 2012 - As predicted here, we've ended a fortnight of warm, sunny (spring-like) days with a day of cold rain - indeed as I type...
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