Roll on 2011 …
Christmas is over and the snow and ice have gone, leaving burst pipes and chaos in their wake. My cousin is paddling about on soaked carpets for the second time […]
Christmas is over and the snow and ice have gone, leaving burst pipes and chaos in their wake. My cousin is paddling about on soaked carpets for the second time […]
I love Christmas, especially when the weather is cold and snowy and the sky is blue. The ice is causing us problems, but it wasn’t bad enough to prevent people […]
At last I have found a birdcake for the ground-feeders that doesn’t disappear in about five minutes due to the attentions of jackdaws and magpies. This one contains insects and appeals […]
… well, not quite – not yet, at any rate. But the hill to our main church was impassable unless you were in a 4×4 today so the morning’s services […]
The weather forecasters have been threatening us with arctic weather since the beginning of the week and they’ve now been proved right. The first small flurries of snow arrived yesterday afternoon and […]
I shouldn’t really be writing this post. I should be writing two essays, which will have to be handed in on Monday, but they say you should take a break every […]
Every time I set foot out of doors at the moment I’m reminded of John Keats’s poem ‘The Eve of St. Agnes’ which begins: ‘St. Agnes’ Eve – Ah, bitter […]