by admin | Feb 15, 2026 | Uncategorized
After posting last week’s blog I was taken to task for admiring “the lovely fresh new growth of the deadly Hemlock”, and featured a photo of it. Jillian, who is heavily involved in the Bury Water Meadows Group, a charity that is doing sterling...
by admin | Feb 8, 2026 | Uncategorized
Well if you thought that the February fill dykes were full last week you were wrong! They are now well and truly over filled. The Stour at the bottom of the hill from us has spilled over into the water meadows creating a huge temporary lake. It’s what they do...
by admin | Feb 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
I know that it’s now February, but before the month clicked over we were already in a February fill dyke situation. The ditches are either flowing well, or if not properly maintained they are brimming with gravy brown water. Footpaths are like muddy skating...
by admin | Jan 25, 2026 | Uncategorized
I don’t half get through a lot of bird seed at work. I have a ‘Squirrel-proof’ 😀 bird feeder that is mostly used by the tits, but is also visited by Nuthatches, Robins, Chaffinches and a Greater Spotted Woodpecker. For the species that struggle with...
by admin | Jan 18, 2026 | Uncategorized
It was all going so well. I arrived at the market yesterday morning good and early. I set up my stall at a leisurely pace, stopping to swap pleasantries with some other stallholders, and was ready and waiting for the surge of early regular customers. Business was...
by admin | Jan 11, 2026 | Uncategorized
I wouldn’t mind the new year starting again to be honest, it hasn’t been a great start. The weather was bitterly cold for most of the week, but that was okay for chainsawing logs – it’s the job that warms you twice. Then the snow came on Monday...
