Posted in Gardening, My garden, Nature, Uncategorized, tagged birds, Gardening, Nature, Spring, weather on February 22, 2014| 20 Comments »
Cherry blossom sprouting on a roadside tree
After months of rain and gales, with floods and falling trees, this week has been comparatively calm in Wales. Winter probably hasn’t finished with us yet, but at last there have been real signs of spring.
I noticed catkins and cherry blossom on roadside trees as I was walking home in the dusk the other night, so took my camera with me next morning. They must have (more…)
Posted in Childhood memories, History, Nostalgia, Uncategorized, tagged art, geology, History, Nostalgia, photography, science on February 14, 2014| 24 Comments »
The Indonesian volcano of Rinjani in 1994, by Oliver Spalt on Wikimedia Commons
STOP PRESS: Moments after I published this, reports came in of a volcano erupting in Sumatra – so best wishes to everyone struggling there…
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Did you have an irrational fear of something when you were a child? In my case, for a while at least, I was terrified of volcanoes. You might say that’s not so crazy. But as I lived in Wales, where an eruption would be pretty near impossible, I think it was.
So this post is all about what (more…)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Wales, weather, winter on February 2, 2014| 17 Comments »
River Wye in full flow at Hay-on-Wye
Who knows where the time goes? I can’t believe it’s already February. I haven’t finished with January yet! In fact I haven’t even finished with Christmas. (more…)
The Squirrelbasket 