View from Finn's Room
Possibly the best view from the house. But don't tell anyone else I said that. There may be trouble.
Spikey Pointy Sphere Flowers
They have another name, but I can't pronounce nor spell it.
Comments::
They're called _Echinops_ (or a Globe Thistle) fay
Day Out in London
Masks On! For a day trip to London by train.
Garden Friends
These amazing creatures remove black fly more efficiently than anything. A lady [bird|bug] friendly garden pays back big time.
Keyboard
One of these is more creative than the other.
> "The reason that Apple is able to create products like the iPad is because we've always tried to be at the intersection of technology and the liberal arts."
Steve Jobs
Past tense?
The Age of Absurdity
Check out for this item (on a popular online retailer) tried to entice me to subscribe and save. The site claimed that most purchasers opt to receive another water bottle every two months. That's about how long it takes our house to loose one too…
> "I didn't loose it, I just don't know where it is"
Needless to say, I declined.
Mustard in the herb garden
Encouraged by A's 'perfect tomato', I have endeavoured to perfect the humble mustard plant. To start, I envisioned the outcome that I want to achieve.
Book Subscription No. 1
An evening read, enjoying the first book from Wallingford Bookshop's wonderful subscription service (thanks family!!!).
The geek in me is trying to figure out if an algorithm would ever pick something that fit as well as this. Here's hoping the answer is no, and the gap that remains is part of being human.
Update: it was a good read. Complete with a rickroll.
Two new kids in the house
Every year the pigeons come back to the Yew tree to nest. We're wondering if it is the same pigeons...
This year two little ones. And yes, that nest is a precarious as it looks.
and the clouds departed…
…just as the working day was ending. Run (regressed two weeks!) then a dog walk with Finn (before he beat me, twice, at CoD).
First Day
Ready for the first day. What you don't see is the playlist. But you might have guessed from the lockdown project. Or maybe not.
National Meadows Day
Here's a late entry for National Meadows Day (which was on Saturday): a dusky damp view of the front garden meadow.
It's come on a long way since the spring.
Half Selfie [1]
A long time ago we met a couple (in Matt's in the Market) who did this strange thing of taking a picture of themselves while holding the camera at arm's length facing the wrong way. We thought them most odd. How times change.
Footnotes
- [1] Half ∵ for a full selfie both of us would have needed to take the picture.
- [2] Note in this picture, Fay's amazing impression of small eyes Aiddy.
Morning Coffee Work
End of something, before the start of something else. One more benefit of working from the garden during a lockdown [1] is that a catch-up coffee has two views, one this end, one that end.
Footnote
[1] -ish
Leaving pressie
For some reason, the team thought a bike related theme was appropriate... I really must have been a bit of a bike bore. Maybe it was all the T-shirts ;)
Merci folks.
J's book of garden things
J has a book in the garden potting shed. It's full of details of plants planted in the garden, going back years.
It's an awesome idea, one we may nick.
Yew Henge
A lovely afternoon away from the house at Waterperry. Quiet and peaceful. Peace. Peace. Peace.
A highlight: Yew Henge, a one-third scale replica of Stone Henge in Yew and Box, surrounded by meadow.