Nights are drawing in
Finished work, as usual, at 5.30-ish and thought: it’s still sunny and dry – I’ve got time to take the dog for a proper walk, rather than round the village […]
Finished work, as usual, at 5.30-ish and thought: it’s still sunny and dry – I’ve got time to take the dog for a proper walk, rather than round the village […]
Rutland’s first frost of the autumn followed by a day of clear blue skies and sunshine. A perfect day. I helped at one of our twice-a-year jumble sales this afternoon, […]
Now decades of ivy has been cut carefully off the wall and piled high in the front garden, ready for several bonfires, I can see the damage to the wall. […]
The old stone wall that forms the boundary between my 18th century cottage and next door runs, with a couple of kinks in it, for about 50 yards from the […]
This year the hedgerow harvest has passed me by: don’t know how, but it seems to me that the dry spring inhibited Rutland’s sloes and blackberries, which usually hang in […]
Rutland is knee deep in pheasants, and partridges. They’re not very bright birds. I can’t drive to Oakham via the back lanes without weaving around small flocks wandering across the […]
My city friends will love this. Late for work this morning because, as I returned in the car from walking the dog (a stroll around the village being too tame) […]
One of my biggest indulgences in renovating the cottage was to splash out on new light switches and sockets throughout, as well as new lights. I do not see the […]
A pair of red kites is nesting in a tree in a quiet corner on the edge of my village. There has been quite a lot of coverage lately about […]
Beneath the quarry tiles in the living room, and under the york stone flags in the kitchen, a quantity of broken china and glass, thoughtfully put on one side for […]