Dorset in January… Well, Dorset in January if you happen to live in the middle of a wood where the bracken and fern are rampant and where the deer decimate anything which does not have vicious thorns to protect itself. Believe it or not but there is a rather fine hamamelis tree buried under that lot. …
Gardens
Winter gardening
Gardeners seem to be divided these days between the traditionalists who like to ‘put a garden to sleep for the winter’ and those who have bought into the theory that you should just abandon a winter garden to get on with itself. Abandoning it allows wildlife to do its ‘thing’ before you get going on …
Newsletter and garden update
Regular recipients of the FoodsMatter newsletter may have noticed that it has been conspicuous by its absence since August. I am afraid that, not only have there been a great many pressing tasks to perform since James’ unexpected death in late August, but he had a somewhat complicated way of mailing it which was several …
Sky over Belsize Park….
7am this morning…. …and 10 minutes later…. Five minutes after that it had all gone.
Glyndebourne in bloom
Roses in full bloom are always pretty spectacular but when combined with a sunny June evening deep in the Sussex countryside, a delicious picnic and the entertainment offered by one’s fellow picnickers – what’s not to love? Oh yes – of course, then there is the opera. Der Rosenkavalier – one of my absolute favourites. …
For garden and dog lovers…
This is Harold. Harold is 15 weeks old today. He is a miniature wire haired dachshund and he belongs to Sarah – and, as you can see, he truly loves her. This is a white Scabious. The scabious also belongs to Sarah. And this is the Thames estuary just outside Faversham where Sarah, Harold and …