Standing outside looking up at the sky filled with stars, heard the summer evening wind blowing clouds across the sky, our neighbors coming home and some old car rattling along in the distance. Heard owls and noises from the bushes – maybe country mice and summer smells of stock blown by the wind and saw […]

Tomato season of 2019 over

As the weather is becoming little colder at ends of the day and damper too – this weekend have emptied our small tunnel and wooden greenhouse of tomato plants and washed down the floor and glass to try and drive away resident small spiders and snails looking for somewhere nice to overwinter. im sure they’ll […]

Sunflower

Van Gogh‘ by Thompson & Morgan which shaded out much smaller ‘Irish Eyes‘

Happiest

Happiest outside and to be honest, as our garden is a little overgrown, face down – pulling weeds or clipping hedges or bushes into different shapes. One bush resembles a very large chicken and another until we cut it back, the lock ness monster. Most of our vegetables are growing well – experimenting with growing […]

After the rain

Beware sleeping gas gang in France on roadside rest areas known as Aires de Service

We travelled to France for a few days recently and not being able to find somewhere to sleep one night, pulled over on a roadside layby in northern France called an ‘Aire de Service’ where truckers also hold up before they make the crossing home on the A16 (Calais-Dunkirk) motorway. Very late and soon asleep […]

Mr Mole and the pumpkin patch

“It was a bright morning in the early part of summer; the river had resumed its wonted banks and its accustomed pace, and a hot sun seemed to be pulling everything green and bushy and spiky up out of the earth towards him, as if by strings. The Mole and the Water Rat had been […]

yeah

Tale of benjamin bunny and a vagabond cat

Put a storm lantern out last night remembering Kenny… Looking to top of our garden in the evening, could see two, three rabbits almost doing leap frog, running and having a good time playing tag among the apple trees. Looking closer noticed an enormous rabbit hole had appeared near the hedge by the road. almost […]

three wise flowerpot men

Chichester Harbour, Woolly Mammoths and Atlantis

The land south of Chichester is very flat and remains of a woolly mammoth were found just out to sea at Selsey The area joining us to Europe beneath the southern north sea, one of the 31 areas mentioned in the shipping weather forecast, may be Anglo French (Language of Sailing by Richard Mayne) from […]

raspberry summer

perhaps this summer will remember most the quietness of picking raspberrys in my parents garden at the end of the day, my fingers turning red with raspberry juice, peering into a sea of raspberry canes to find the lovely fruit and listening to the birds, wearing wellies as sometimes snakes make their way into the […]

nighttime garden

Another beautiful day, althou not a heat wave. we tried to add many scented flowers to our garden and at the end of a warm June day the scent is very lovely – honeysuckle, roses – almost over, different lavender, thyme and sweetpea – althou my favorite is the night scented stock. Because it may […]

Snoopy

thinking about the summer

Ditchling Gardens

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Strolling into work at 10

Sun, Sea, Sunflowers

Ghostly Galleon – m.joy

The Highwayman The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor And the highwayman came riding— Riding—riding— The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door. Alfred Noyes

Tag: summer

Field of Flowers

Summer – Orchids

Nighttime