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Every day for the past week or so I’ve been checking the flowers that I know are loved by bees and hoverflies, though with only moderate success. Of course, it’s still early March, and whichever bright spark on the Midlands … Continued

I belong to a photography group called Stratford Clicks, which is largely run on line, but does stage occasional events in the real world. One of the other members, who lives in Chipping Campden, managed to arrange for a few … Continued

Today R and I said a temporary goodbye to H and G as they went off on the next leg of the tour; they’ll be rattling through again at the end of this week, but for now the house seems … Continued

Lest you think this represents the death of conversation, we were simply having a little speaking break after virtually talking ourselves hoarse over breakfast. The Offspring were both working, while I made lunch with sous-chef assistance from R, and seeing … Continued

R and I spent an energetic couple of hours in the middle of the day, tidying the front garden. It’s quite a large space, so getting round it in that time was a demonstration of The Art of Rough Gardening … Continued

It’s now nearly six months since we lost Arthur (whose 17th birthday it would have been yesterday), and fifteen months since Roley died; and every creature within a ten-mile radius seems to have worked out that our garden is a … Continued

Photos of early hoverflies and solitary bees have been turning up on Facebook for the past few days; so early this afternoon I dusted off the macro lens, applied it to the 5D and went out hunting bugs. There’s very … Continued

This is Number 7 in my occasional series I Fear My Scansion May Be Getting Worse : A Great Spotted Woodpecker in a Worcester black pear tree. Number 1: A Starling in a beech tree Number 2: A Robin in … Continued

This is the famous north door of the Parish Church of St Edward in Stow-on-the-Wold, closely flanked by yew trees. I was in Stow today to have my hair cut, and unusually I managed to arrive a few minutes early, … Continued

F is for Fluid Dynamics. F is also for Faffing About – which is what I did for most of this afternoon. One (slightly) interesting thing I’d like to point out about this image is that the movement trails show … Continued