Waxing gibbous

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R and I are both very grateful for the lovely comments you left on yesterday’s blip, and the hearts and stars you gave to our old chap – who, of course, would have detested all the attention. I have read … Continued

Dog rose

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This morning Arthur couldn’t eat and was clearly in pain, and R and I decided that it was time. Eventually I got him to eat some scrambled egg, heavily laced with anti-inflammatories, which allowed him to settle and have a … Continued

Willersey Hill

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I’m crazily late posting this evening, so I’ll refrain from writing my usual screeds of rubbish. Suffice it to say that today has been busy, and less productive than I hoped it would be. I had an appointment in Stow-on-the-Wold … Continued

Voyeurism

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I was wandering up the garden this morning, just looking to see what was about, and a strange movement caught my eye as a bright and strange-shaped bug disappeared into the depths of a Potentilla. When pursued with the macro … Continued

Marbled

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This is beautiful, don’t you think? The markings are really exquisite when you get up close. What?? Where’s everybody gone…? So yes, we’re back to the autumn, when I post photos of big fat garden spiders, and all the arachnophobes … Continued

Mono Monday: Memorable

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I bought this Timothy Richards doorway model of the Hotel Central in Prague for R about fifteen years ago, just because we both love Art Nouveau. We vaguely said that one day we would go and find this building – … Continued

Rearing

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I pursued this Small Tortoiseshell round the front garden for several minutes this morning: all I wanted was a couple of decent shots of him, and all he wanted was for me to GO AWAY. I’ve previously seen butterflies rear … Continued

Alstroemeria

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This is by way of being a bit of an Emergency Blip, what with it having rained for much of the day, and me having been too wussy to go out. I spent the morning re-editing many of last month’s … Continued

Sunny

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Well, actually it wasn’t all that sunny for much of the day, though it improved towards evening. But I’d decided to have a quiet time at my desk today, after all the gadding about I’ve been doing for the last … Continued

Witley Court

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After a late night doing the Mono Monday results, and sleeping badly because R was away and Arthur is stone deaf, leaving me as the only available house guard, I really needed a lie in this morning. Instead I was … Continued