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Last taste of summer
I’m no gardener. The gardening gene of both my parents passed me by, but I have always appreciated a garden even if not being very adept at looking after one. This means I am always disproportionately chuffed when I actually … Continue reading
Posted in Food & Drink, Recipes, Seasonal
Tagged food, garden, Personal, seasonal, Worcestershire
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A Pocketful of Illusions
In the first stages of easing the current, pretty comprehensive lockdown, we took advantage of a sunny day a couple of weeks ago to pop down the road to Spetchley Park Gardens which had not long re-opened their gates. We … Continue reading
Posted in Artsy, Houses & Gardens, Locality, Photography, Seasonal
Tagged garden, reflection, spring, water
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Friendships
We have managed to catch up with a few friends in person in the last couple of days. We had to go to Kidderminster for husband Stewart’s eye appointment at the hospital on Saturday, so thought we would take the … Continue reading
Posted in People, Philosophical, Seasonal
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Woodland Wandering
A touch of Narnia…
Posted in Artsy, Locality, Nature, Photography, Seasonal
Tagged photography, Trench Wood
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Belated Happy New Year!
And an even more belated post. I can’t blame the art summer school (August), daughter’s wedding (end of September), various forays into printing and a flurry of bookmaking for my first ever demo (November) or even the post-election depression and … Continue reading
Posted in People, Photography, Random, Seasonal
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Happy birthday and solstice solace…
We stopped for a while today at a delightful poppy field near Kidderminster, Worcestershire. It was a delight, and I thought how my mum would have loved to see the blowzy, nodding mass of poppies in all their slghtly rain-battered … Continue reading
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Around the garden
There seems to be a seasonal colour theme going on in the garden today… Montage of a few phone snaps. I do feel a bit guilty at robbing the poor embarrassed moai of their dignity with the pansy hats!
Posted in Houses & Gardens, Locality, Nature, Photography, Random, Seasonal
Tagged flora, garden, purple
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Spring on the farm
Popped in on Lower Smite Farm briefly today. The cowslip meadow is in fine fig! Enjoy…
Posted in Locality, Photography, Seasonal, Uncategorized
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Winter into spring
A tad optimistic, perhaps, as I’m sure winter has more to surprise us with, but spring has been advancing of late. A few phone snaps from a couple of meanders in the last few days, at Worcester Woods and my … Continue reading
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Merry Christmas!
A brief entry today to wish any passers-by all the very best for the festive season and a peaceful New Year. The post was triggered by my coming across this not-too-brilliantly-scanned slide from Christmas 1962, taken in my bedroom in … Continue reading
Posted in Journal, Philosophical, Seasonal
Tagged Christmas, family, Personal, reflections
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