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Thanks for all your good wishes for my kennel cough yesterday! After a better night, I felt much improved this morning, so I downed a gramme of vitamin C and took myself off into the garden for some fresh air. … Continued

I thought I’d be posting a blip of Chipping Campden today: I was supposed to be there for a meeting this morning, but I appear to have gone down with kennel cough so I’m confined to home. Instead I thought … Continued

I’d hoped for a dramatic cloudscape to photograph for this challenge, but it’s not that kind of day here today; instead we have essentially a clear day with some thin stratus cloud. Perfect gardening weather in fact, which is what … Continued

…was the title CH suggested for this shot. Though frankly, he should know better. I cannot abide Wordsworth – if anyone mentions him to me, I’m apt to quote the last two lines of this: High on a mountain’s highest … Continued

I had one of those days today – I seemed to be endlessly busy, but got almost nothing done. Never mind – tomorrow’s another day. I had errands to run in Stratford in the afternoon, and as the River Avon … Continued

Thanks to all of you who said kind things yesterday – your nice thoughts are much appreciated! I got up this morning coughing and sneezing, and feeling as though some unfriendly elf spent last night sandpapering the back of my … Continued

This paperweight usually lives on CH’s desk, but I had fun this afternoon photographing it on various surfaces and in different lights. I’ve made good progress with the rose bed today – one more session should see it finished so … Continued

Those of you who were around last autumn may remember this piece of wanton destruction. I replaced the unloved weeping pear with some shrubs which I thought might cope with life in this dingy part of the front garden, and … Continued

I walked into my study this morning, glanced out of the window and thought “What the…??” In fifteen years of living here, I have never seen the sun rise over our neighbour’s farm before – it always crests the hill … Continued

Mmmmm…. liver treats…… This isn’t the best photo I took today, but it is the first, and the one that makes me laugh when I look at it, so I thought it would be sad not to use it. Neither … Continued