Beyond a joke

Beyond a joke

I’m talking about the inaccuracy of recent weather forecasts. I receive notifications on my phone from the Met Office of weather warnings, and in the past week I have lost count of the number that have foretold of rain, heavy rain, prolonged rain, biblical...
A rare sight

A rare sight

Where are all the wasps, hornets, and even flies this year? It’s a question that I have heard lots of people ask, and whilst it’s good not to be pestered by these insects you can’t help thinking that it’s to the detriment of the natural...
A brief one

A brief one

Yep, this is going to be a short one. In the interests of work/life balance, it being a bank holiday weekend, I am working reduced hours, so I am being disciplined in the length of time that I am going to commit to this. Well yesterday was miserable, but I was...
Timber!

Timber!

This is the scene along the drive of Moyns Park, piles of timber awaiting loading on to trucks to be transported to sawmills where it will be graded by quality. There are various locations around the estate with similar sized stacks. The smaller sized branches and...
A lesson learned

A lesson learned

In April 2023 I featured a photograph of Ely Cathedral in my blog, an image that I found whilst doing a Google search. Last week I received an email from Alamy, a stock photography company, that informed me that I had infringed copyright laws by using the photograph...
Sunstruck

Sunstruck

What a sizzling week of weather we had, that was the week to have been at the Cornish coast, not the cold and gloomy one that I experienced a month ago. Oh well, good luck to those that struck lucky. It made for quite a physically demanding time working, because both...

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