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July 18, 2019
Foretelling the future...
In the garden the blackcurrants are ripening and I'm starting to pick them. Then I had this weird premonition that home-made cassis might be in my near future..…
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davids
July 15, 2019
Pre-Raphaelite summer...
Yes, I know I'm always taking pictures of the roses in our garden but nature is quite wonderful and should be celebrated. Anyway, this rose is my favourite in…
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davids
July 11, 2019
A little bit of the Med in Wales...
This is the very Italianate terraced garden at Powis Castle in central Wales. The brick walls of the terraces soak up any sunshine to act like giant storage…
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davids
July 10, 2019
Oswestry Iron Age Hill fort
The other day we had a trundle up to Oswestry to stroll around the earth ramparts of the Iron Age hill fort just north of the town. You can kind of see some of…
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davids
July 03, 2019
Constable sky...
John Constable is one of my favourite landscape painters and I always wonder what he could have done with some of the glorious skies I see out of my window so…
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davids
July 02, 2019
Old Field Marshall...
Not the Duke of Wellington or Bernard Montgomery but a 72-year old Field Marshall tractor trundling around the village yesterday. Very different from the modern…
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davids
July 01, 2019
Purple and orange...
Are there two more difficult words to rhyme in the English language...? Taken from the house a few weeks ago.
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davids
June 26, 2019
Catholic country manors and hiding pesky priests...
Boscobel House in Staffordshire was owned by a Catholic family whose religion was suppressed in England after the excesses of Mary Tudor (reigned 1553-58) and…
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davids
June 25, 2019
The tree that gave its name to hundreds of pubs...
A common name for pubs in Britain is The Royal Oak of which there are nearly 500. They are named after the oak tree in the grounds of Boscobel House in which…
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davids
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