Showing posts with label weather. Show all posts
Showing posts with label weather. Show all posts

Friday, 20 February 2015

August, Part I...

August began with the annual regatta - and, of course, the sun shone, the water sparkled, and the commentators got the giggles when anyone ended up 'in the drink'. Jolly good show, what?!


The garden did its usual delightful thing - looking particularly lovely as the sun was going down.


A day in Bury St Edmunds with Mr Drookit, and the Girl, wondering what the houses were like behind these doors.


I started training for a new job, which involved doing a bit of travelling - no hardship in summer, spending an hour on the top deck of the bus, looking out for miles and miles over fields of gold and green.


The garden was filled with goldfinches, and paintbrushes gathered dust for another summer.


A vintage fair in the local church hall drew a good crowd. Much lipstick was applied.


In the middle of August we had our annual Olympicnic - an institution now. We didn't bother trying to find a Commonwealth themed title, in honour of the games in Glasgow, but instead stuck to variations on the theme. Misanthropicnic, myopicnic, and so on. Don't mess with a winning formula, I'd say.


Games, grub, guitars, oh, okay, banjos... good times!

Sunday, 4 January 2015

Pink and purple...

Full bloom in June, with a stolen poppy stealing the show. First up, tho', the lavender looking utterly lovely... The bees agreed.



We pinched a seed pod from a garden, and tho' we only managed to get a couple of flowers this year, I'm hoping for more next time. Isn't this gorgeous?


The pink roses are ours, I think, but the pink flowers at bottom left are definitely escapees from the garden next door, while the poppy is courtesy of the birds...


Poor little thing. Looks quite shame-faced.  No wonder...


Pink lolling tongue. Perhaps he'd spotted the little lady from the picture before....

Food Festival Fun...

The food festival came to town again in the summer - our town plus free food is always a winning combination. Some interesting food and some interesting folk.

Wednesday, 31 December 2014

The Wildlife Site...

 As June continued....

...the garden continued to provide lots to do (picking raspberries, encouraging the tomatoes) and to see...
Baby sparrows having a splash about.
Pigeon hogging the bath.
Astonishing colour combinations.
Froglets emerging.
The wildlife site was in full bloom in summer, and with nothing much to do except admire it I managed to take loads of photos.

13th June 2014
20th June 2014