It takes all kinds to populate a world. Every possible niche is filled, and diversity helps to ensure species survival. Today I’m thinking about the pleasures of social interaction, as well as the delights of quiet iconoclasm. We’ve thought, in…
Month: July 2019
Far-flung families . . .
It’s a truism of contemporary life, I guess, that family members often find themselves separated by great distances. And it’s not even necessarily contemporary — this diaspora has been going on for generations, centuries. My family history of the twentieth…
Media attention for the arts in our midst
It will behove the diary to run a feature, sometime soon, on each of the two local artistes who garnered significant regional media attention this past weekend, but for now it’s probably more important to note the fanfare. Anna Harrison’s…
Hymns & Pimm’s
They’ve got 26 suggested hymns to get through, this evening, and organist June Welch and choir are working hard to make sure they can help lead them all. There would only be 25, but Shirley Brown had asked me, when…
Harry Hare checks out the garden
He pops in of an evening, and laconically lopes around the place, seemingly heedless of Kali cat’s presence, though always on the lookout in case she should pounce out of nowhere. Yesterday I managed to catch him through the camera…
Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days . . .
. . . .of summer! Maybe even when the torrential rains and thunderstorms come, as they did Tuesday evening, dramatically, maybe even then it’ll still be summer. It’s a dreadful weekend predicted, so much so that the Lions Golf Classic…
What’ve you got up top?
Motorhomes cruise through these valleys, and we’ve got quite a few of them that are ‘native’ to these parts as well. Indeed, I’ve just been kitting Harry Hymer out in preparation for our little jaunt to the seaside in early…
Berry picking time . . .
We should be grateful that the blackbird, a clear favourite in our garden apart from beloved Gordon the guinea fowl, doesn’t seem to fancy the red currants! He’s decimated the lovely soft juicy black currants (I knew he was after…
Hot air predicted from the south . . .
Yet again, the weather folks are telling us that we’re to have a heat wave up here, but so far all we’ve got is endless gusts of piffle-paffle, some heavy rain, and promises of temperatures ‘soaring’ over 25ºC. Still, cool…
A small engineering solution
Now that our water challenges are sorted, we’d like to keep a handy record of what our daily monitoring shows us, so that we will know early on if something goes amiss. The best place to put the tick sheet,…