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13 Jan 2024

Baby

by JDO | posted in: Warwickshire, Wild animals | 0

Babies everywhere. This one is slightly less pink and squishy and rather more hairy than Grandson Two, whom R and I met over a Facetime call this morning, but is already walking and feeding itself very competently, and eating an … Continued

4 Jan 2023

Garnish

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Warwickshire, Wild animals | 0

By lunch time I needed a break from my desk, and despite the Vale being shrouded in heavy cloud, and the weather forecast for most other places in the vicinity being equally poor, I decided to risk a trip to … Continued

23 Dec 2022

Nom

by JDO | posted in: My garden, Wild animals, Worcestershire | 0

R and I were both up pre-dawn today – though that’s not saying a lot, as the Vale was trapped under a thick lid of cloud, and dawn didn’t really break till about noon – and off out to source … Continued

19 Dec 2022

Possession

by JDO | posted in: Birds, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

Busy, busy, busy. Yesterday R and I brainstormed a meal plan for the stretch through Christmas, and today we did the supermarket delivery order, and then trekked around Warwickshire and Worcestershire sourcing the things we either couldn’t or didn’t want … Continued

17 Dec 2022

Apple ice

by JDO | posted in: Fruit and vegetables, My garden, Weather, Wild animals, Worcestershire | 0

Today was a very busy day, with a long orchestral rehearsal this afternoon and then the concert this evening. I also had to spend nearly forty minutes in the back yard at lunch time, digging my car out from under … Continued

27 Nov 2022

Confiding

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Worcestershire | 0

R and I spent an enjoyable morning in Stratford, meeting up with his aunt who was in town to have lunch with a friend. It was a murky morning, but the forecast promised a better afternoon, so even though I … Continued

15 Jan 2022

Fare

by JDO | posted in: Birds, My garden, Recipes, Worcestershire | 0

Fieldfare exchange is no robbery – is that how it goes? Something like that, anyway. I was busily constructing a Catalan chicken stew, which is one of R’s absolutely favourite dishes, when he walked through the kitchen and said, “Is … Continued

9 Aug 2021

Infra dig

by JDO | posted in: Family life | 0

When Baby B gets a little older he’ll realise that leaving his toys around the kitchen after he’s gone to bed, when the “grown-ups” are partaking of alcohol, is asking for trouble. Luckily Dr Gordon Perkins had the gravitas to … Continued

13 Feb 2021

Possessive

by JDO | posted in: Birds, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

Possession, as we’ve all been told, is nine-tenths of the law, and this fieldfare demonstrated the principle perfectly today: arriving on the back lawn about half an hour after I scattered a bag of apples, it declared ownership of this … Continued

2 Sep 2020

Wet

by JDO | posted in: Fruit and vegetables, My garden, Trees, Weather, Worcestershire | 0

I missed a trick today. Well, two actually. I went for a more-or-less socially distanced coffee and catch-up this morning with a friend I haven’t seen for a long time, even though she and her husband live only a few … Continued

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