by admin | Aug 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
Yes, brace yourselves, after a couple of weeks of relatively benign conditions heatwave number 4 of the summer is bearing down on us. Even before it properly arrives (it’s actually plenty hot enough today thank you) everywhere is looking parched again and my...
by admin | Aug 3, 2025 | Uncategorized
Last week was a short one for me having missed a working day to attend a funeral down in Buckinghamshire, so not as much was achieved in the garden, but one has to get one’s priorities right, and so it was a no-brainer for me to accompany Jennifer to pay our...
by admin | Jul 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
This is the sight that greets me when I open the chicken coop up in the morning. A Pigeon decided that it would be a good idea to build its nest, no more than a scruffy collection of randomly placed twigs, at eye level in the hedge right beside the hen’s run....
by admin | Jul 20, 2025 | Uncategorized
Well we got it. Not what they said we would get, but we got it, and possibly more tomorrow. When I left Moyns Park this afternoon I measured 16mm in the rain guage, an accumulation of yesterday and today, and very welcome it is too. The good thing is that, thus far,...
by admin | Jul 13, 2025 | Uncategorized
What is there left to say? I think it is now down to damage limitation. A case of deciding what is to wither and die and what should I concentrate on saving/nurturing, because trying to keep everything going just isn’t working. Dragging hoses and sprinklers here...
by admin | Jul 6, 2025 | Uncategorized
George Frideric Handel’s number one best seller is ringing in my ears as I look out of the window at rain…yes rain! It’s actually raining! As I write these words 6.4mm has registered in my weather station guage (10mm at Moyns Park), and the weather...
