“Cast not a clout ’til May is out.” Old English country saying meaning keep a warm coat on until the bush May is in blossom, not until the end of the month of May as some people think. Oh goodness, the hundredth photo of the year. Who’d of thought it. 10 April 2014
Well today was nice, it was warm and dry and Mrs Sixwheeler was out for the day. And I was able to get on with some gentle gardening. At last! And can I please make it clear that the absence of Mrs S is certainly NOT a prerequisite of a good day, it just happened…
Today we have visited daughter and granddaughters near Bedford. After lunch I took Maude for a walk at what we call Woburn Woods. This is an area of pinewoods on the sandstone ridge near Woburn; I think it’s actually called Apsley Wood but not to us. We’ve walked there with three different dogs for a…
And here we have “Cleavers”. Beloved of children of all ages; pull a bit off and it sticks to clothes, anyone’s clothes, best on the back. Hated by farmers who have to try to get the seeds out of their grain sample. Cleavers. 7 April 2014
This afternoon I went to The Rec where Bath Rugby were playing Brive in the Amlin Cup quarter final. Here are Bath in their pre-match huddle. It was a great game, in daylight and with almost no rain. Bath won 39-7 and Gavin Henson was Man-of-the-Match. Excellent afternoon. 6 April 2014
Regular readers will know that on Saturday mornings we go to the Bath Farmers Market. This is an excellent institution and an reliable source of tasty food and ingredients. Sometimes there is entertainment too, we have even been known to have Morris Dancers (hoorah!) but today we had the local ukulele group. They are enthusiastic…
So. There I was, we’d spent the morning doing the weekly shopping. Sainsburys then our village greengrocer; lunch with the news on the TV. Me comfortably in my armchair contemplating a snooze when I thought that perhaps I should take Maude for a walk. Suddenly I felt as if I was being bombarded with laser…
One benefit of living in Bath is that you can obtain a Bath ‘Discovery Card’ from the council which gives you access to some local attractions either free or at reduced charge. Today we caught up with something we’ve been meaning to do for ages, we visited the Roman Baths which were one of the…
Mrs Sixwheeler comes from the Isles of Scilly, an archipelago of small islands about twenty five miles southwest of Lands End the bottom left hand corner of England. Her mother had a delightful old cottage there and in her garden grew Echiums. These plants originate in South Africa and can grow to about twelve feet…
Dry stone wall, near Bath. 1 April 2014
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