Outside musings from our garden in Carmarthenshire
This seems like a big moment. As this endless summer of heat and drought grinds inexorably on for us in West Wales. I reflected this morning that there has been no significant urban unrest as typically happens during such hot … Continue reading →
Vignettes from an atypical Welsh summer: The early bird catches the worm. But not this year. With almost no rain falling since the 4 mm that fell on July 2nd, the worms are in summer aestivation survival mode, and deep … Continue reading →
Utterly bewitching! This was the succinct two-word comment that Mark, one of my fellow AGOG’ers, made in response to the email I sent him, which included a link to this short video I’d just edited and uploaded in early June. … Continue reading →
The last daffodils finally faded in late May, after the wonderful, cool spring. Their memories are captured below in a final, brief video I stitched together once we’d replaced my failing desktop. All filmed on the day after Storm Dave, … Continue reading →
It has to be our worst garden weeding challenge. Ever. A consequence of very poor forward thinking on my part. We knew that last autumn was a mast year for most of our oaks – something which happens every few … Continue reading →
I scanned a fair few sites to find a suitable quote to begin this post, and felt the lines below best summarised the real joys of April 2026 in the garden and landscape of West Wales: “April, the angel of … Continue reading →
Happy Easter. No news has been good news, at least here, over the last month as the world continues to convulse. Again. I’m posting this on Easter Sunday, to record some of the many things that have occupied me for … Continue reading →
Ever the optimist, I’m hoping for the weather to turn in March. Now that February is over, it will be remembered for its lack of light (our gloomiest ever February) and only one dry 24-hour period. (As I write this, … Continue reading →
I was going to begin with the crime scene. Or should that be the murder scene, for that is what it seemed to me to be. Except that is, by definition, the unlawful and pre-meditated killing of one human by … Continue reading →
Once more, January has worked its magic. What?? This image, above, from this morning paints a more accurate picture of the often wet, grey gloom, and sodden ground which limits outside work at the moment. Not to mention the cold, … Continue reading →