That’s it then. Last day of June. The countdown to Christmas starts here. Well, not ‘here’ exactly – we don’t do that. But, since you asked, yes, we do have a Christmas Present list and we would be happy to forward you a copy . . . Meanwhile, a brace of painters have been hard [...]
Activity over at The New Harp has been nothing short of frenetic this week (round here, that means three guys doing three different jobs at the same time). The scaffolding is being taken down with enough speed to suggest that the price of secondhand scaffolding tubes has reached an all-time high on the open market. [...]
Full moon tonight. Longest day yesterday. Enough light, you might think, to give us a longer than average time to see things outside and to observe activity in the garden. But with all that available light we can’t see Upf’rit, the blackbird with the gammy wing. We don’t want to jump to any conclusions (we [...]
One swallow doth not a summer make. So, the conclusion we reach, after an exploration of the facts and a logical stroll through the result, is that it cannot be summer, because we can see only one swallow out there on the wire preening himself (or is it ‘herself’ – I can’t tell them apart). [...]
Crikey! Halfway through June already – where does the time go? There we were, worrying about how busy we are going to be over the May bank holiday weekend, when all of a sudden everyone is looking forward to the opening matches at Wimbledon. And so much has happened in the last fortnight . . [...]