are not what you want to find in your garden when you wake up in the morning. Bob was amazed when I said I was going to take a photo before shooing them out! Well, you just have to record such lovely sights as this don’t you?
My granddaughters love harvest just like the boys – climbing on trailers and jumping in the corn is one of their favourite things. I remember jumping off a barn roof onto a heap of chaff at their age. That was when corn sheaves were threshed in the farm yard; now the chaff goes straight back […]
..they are here to eat off the grass – five warbles and two berechon (?) when they came they were quite tame, now they seem to have gone feral and won’t come up for a photocell. Last week I woke up to find them in our vegetable garden – beetroot tops were favourite. I need a […]
I love harvest time – the new combines are massive and seem very complicated – full of computers showing pictures of what the driver cannot see, graphs of yield, maps of the field. The children take is all for granted of course – like my grandson looking non-challant as he presses a button and chews a […]
We moored under a tree, the clouds were reflected in the water, there were lots of canoes out that day, but not single boat to be seen when the mechanism jammed while we were in Perio lock – the Environment Agency team came out and rescued us….the sun was setting by the time we moored […]
Being in the lock can be quite daunting with water pouring over the pointing doors – but without the locks the river would not be navigable
Bob and I took a short trip up river last weekend – we passed Fotheringhay church
My grandchildren were the first to try out the new steps in my studio… and below… Austin is takes a critical look at his handiwork…
Nathan and Ben – 3rd and 4th grandsons – took us to the Apple Store in Leicester on Saturday to get a new computer – We asked about memory; this was a very important issue when we bought our first PS11 in 1989. ‘Its a Terabyte – don’t worry Granny – you’ll run out of memory […]
I love the smell of cattle, it reminds me of when I used to rear calves – nowadays I don’t get that close except from when on the boat
The shelves are beginning to fill up in my new studio, will soon need some more..
This is Eddie enjoying the morning sun; he’s a retired RDA pony who lives with Nola, and just, just lovely, perfect manners and absolutely bombproof. Who could ask for more?
Three chicks hatched from the 11 eggs that Angel was sitting on last week. Most people don’t know that hens will only sit on an odd number of eggs – if you try placing an even number together you will find there is always one ‘outside the bunch’. The eggs were not mine as I didn’t […]
Jenny came with me to IKEA on Saturday to fit out the studio – I chose a range called Borgsjo and put up these three units yesterday- it didn’t take long and left me time to make strawberry jam and take my elderly Mother shopping in Waitrose; she likes picking things off the shelves from her […]
The sun was so lovely I took a trip round the garden with my camera on Sunday afternoon
My daughter, son-in-law and grandson bought and installed the lights in my studio as a gift – I wanted to pay them but they wouldn’t have it; my daughter said:Now Mum, how many times have you said ‘Giving is easy – but it takes humility to receive’ Now your words have come back to bite […]
My daughter Angela did this lovely display about gardens at the flower festival – it was just inside the door on the right as you go in. Her twin sister did the one in the porch – I was quite proud to have two such talented children willing to give their time and talents to […]