Busy
I’ve had one of those days when you work pretty much flat out, but don’t feel you have much to show at the end for all the effort. I’ll just have to console myself that I can see the difference … Continued
Fluffy pink bum
I did so much gardening today – completing the renovation of the big rose bed, and then mulching the whole thing with rotted wood chips from the pile left for me by the tree surgeon last autumn – that I’m … Continued
Improvement
It was still cold and grey for much of the day, but at lunch time the cloud thinned briefly, and the light improved. I don’t think I’ve moved so fast in quite a while – bounding upstairs to grab the … Continued
Under-floor heating
R and I went to Cardiff today, where the Boy Wonder seemed happy to see us after a fortnight’s gap. We noticed another step change in his vocabulary and grammar, and one or two behavioural changes (not all of them … Continued
Competitive feeding
The alliums are out, and seem to be permanently covered with a little gang of first-brood Bombus pratorum males, feeding competitively. These little bumblebees are so fast, skittish, and erratic that I find them hard to photograph even on a … Continued