New Year

Happy new year, folks. I hope you celebrated appropriately and that someone called you on new year’s eve and said, “Hey, happy new year, let’s go for a walk and have lunch tomorrow!” And that you looked at the weather forecast, saw that it would be cloudy, but dry and agreed to the plan. That’s [...]

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Life moves fast in the country

Just three days before I’d been walking through a field of barley wishing I had my camera with me, rather than just my phone. Returning with my Nikon camera on a walk just those few days later though, I found all the barley gone, with the last few bales being collected from the now bare [...]

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Fields of gold

I went for a walk yesterday, as part of an ongoing effort to clear my head and get my joints working. I’ve been out in the fields in recent days, among the seed heads of oil seed rape and horse beans, thin and fat, little red bugs and swarms of little flies that I then [...]

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I bet Laura Ingalls Wilder never had this trouble

Not interested, but if you wait here an idiot pony will be along shortly

I had some weedy little turnips that I thought might be a nice treat for the Shetland ponies and goats that I occasionally walk past on a wander in the fields, so I dropped them into my rucksack along with my camera and cycled up the little hill to feed them. On one side of [...]

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7 Days: Day 2 – Yellow-ish

My challenge to myself today was to find a splash of natural yellow that wasn’t daffodils or forsythia, both of which can be found in the garden. If only I’d made yellow the theme when the fields around here were full of oilseed rape. I just don’t think these things through! I headed out on [...]

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SNOW!

Apologies for shouting, but we don’t get proper snow very often. SNOW! The first flakes of yesterday afternoon turned into a few inches overnight. During which time John’s first flakes turned into an almost improper 14 inches. My plan had been to wait for the snow to stop falling about mid-morning and then head out [...]

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Wandering in Kent

I would have posted this earlier, but electricity got in my way. You see, there was a nice big power surge at John’s office which blew out a few power supplies (great, thanks!). One of the power supplies took care of his server and so I couldn’t get hold of the video in which I [...]

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In which an adult wearing mittens pokes ice with a stick

Yesterday Suzy did me a great favour and got me out of the house for a while. I’ve been in a bit of a lazy hibernation stage recently, always finding an excuse not to go outdoors. An excuse such as: it’s -5ºC and this radiator is clearly lonely and in need of hugging. After setting [...]

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