An important addition – and correction – to my last piece on the crocus….I have just found a short I wrote many, many years ago on the very subject: please read carefully… …August ends abruptly….the early rays of the sun later...
The autumn crocus is a very reliable flower, it always comes at about the same time, if not actually at official autumn according to a calendar. It comes when it decides it feels like autumn, or is just the time that it wants to come. We have one very reliable plant,...
At last consistently hot days have arrived at La Chaise! I can stop annoying everyone with my saying ‘as a retired farmer, I am allowed to say we need a little rain…’ The temperatures for the last few days have consistently passed 30 C… This...
Not this year. This year I managed to do something that – for me – was a major triumph. I managed to take a picture of a butterfly as it was resting on a tree. Sadly I do not feel qualified/competent to say which type of butterfly it was ….I am...
She had to go out shopping, stupid things like dishwasher tabs, tissues and loo-paper but on to better things like pink or white wine. The beer reserve was fine. But then…… Since she lived on her own in an isolated place – trees her only friends and... 
