Travelled home from Milton Keynes today. The traffic was generally light and roadworks were minimal compared to some recent journeys, but the weather made the driving horrible for quite a lot of the way and the driving manners of some drivers, considering the conditions was appalling ( Read more... )

Much to my surprise I had enjoyed "Despicable me" and have subsequently become familiar with the pictures of "Minions" that adorn the local car wash. Our daughter is visiting for a few days and the other night the three of us decided too go to the cinema to watch "Minions" the prequel to "Despicable Me".Five minutes before the start we walked ( Read more... )

When I was at school it was an insult to call someone a weed,but reflecting from a distance of fifty years that most of the weeds (botanical) that I have know have been far from weedy.MOst of them grow all too vigourously ( Read more... )

Tonight on Crimewatch, er no, I mean Spring watch, though there were moments when Crimewatch might have been a more appropriate title for what we were seeing, I was fascinated to see the recording of the bittern booming: I know I’ve seen it on Television before but somehow so far the experience in the wild has eluded me: ggod to have the reminder ( Read more... )

22nd August is memorable because it is my sister's birthday(she should have had my card by now).....and LJ reminds me it is my friends birthday across the big pond in the United States so I will wish her a wonderful day too...

On one of the hottest days of the year, not much activity in the garden..Maybe it's because there is so much food in the lanes and fields around the village that the birds don't need to come into the gardens to find food, or maybe after nesting and rearing their broods they have all gone into hiding because they are doing their annual moult, I don' ( Read more... )

At last the days of drab and drear have come to an end...today we actually had some sunshine. This morning the roads and paths were dry at dawn although the grass was still very wet from overnight condensation but by teatime that too was dry or sufficiently so to take the lawn mower from winter storage for the first time this year ( Read more... )

It was such a perfect day……and it could so easily not have happened. There had been torrential rain overnight but fortunately the local BBC forecast was for better things and so undeterred, we arrived to find sunshine overhead, brilliant lighting on the water (the best ever, some of us thought) and in parts, a bit wet underfoot. Early arrivals had ( Read more... )

Early afternoon I was standing at the kitchen window preparing for the evening meal and watching the birds at the same time, reflecting on how lucky I was to have such a variety of bird life to enjoy, coming to the garden feeders ( Read more... )

For we’ve come to see the power of nonviolence. We’ve come to see that this method is not a weak method, for it’s the strong man who can stand up amid opposition, who can stand up amid violence being inflicted upon him and not retaliate with violence ( Read more... )