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Good for Gout
At last. A ray of hope! Up to now, all the spring growth that has been edible has come with a natural health warning “Not to be eaten by those susceptible to Gout.” There is no doubt I should be proud...
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Oak Hay?
Well, it seems we have definitely had our summer. It lasted nearly two weeks, so I suppose we can’t complain. The wind is being a little over enthusiastic today and the trees, in the wood that rises up...
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In The Clover
Where the ‘Man With the Mower’ has been round and cut the verges nice and short, we find those who prefer not to have to stand on tip-toe to be able to watch the passing traffic. Buttercups and...
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Fit For Foxes
You’d think that with a name like Foxgloves there would be no issues. Obviously, some of the naughtier fairies have given the foxes these gloves. The foxes can then tippy-toe into the chicken roost,...
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Wild Oat
If you have a field of Oats and you suspect that you may have some Wild Oats in there too, I’m afraid you’re stuck with them. They are members of the same oat family, so anything you do to try to kill...
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Hog Wash
Hogweed has one of those Latin names that you can actually believe, for a change. A quick translation gives us Hercules‘ Skeleton and if you look at the stalks, with their knobbly knee competition...
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Bedding Down
Common Bedstraw is, indeed very common. Too common, some might say. It catches on everything, with the little hooked hairs on its leaves, stalks and seeds being more like Velcro than Velcro. But it’s...
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Gordon Bennett
Gordon Bennett may or may not have ever existed. Just supposing he did exist, he could have been one of three people. A Scotsman who started The New York Herald, his son who, born into a life of...
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Mystical
Poppies are amazing plants, if you have the right variety you can have opium, morphine and codeine, providing you pick them at the right time. By twenty days after the flower blooms, the opiates have...
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That’s It Then
So here we are. It’s all over now. The Solstice has been and gone and we’re on the slippery downhill slope into Winter. If the week or so that Spring was allocated is anything to go by, then Summer has...
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The Moon in June
Sometimes it’s hard to resist the urge to rhyme things with moon. Especially when it’s full and especially when it’s a full moon in June. It’s now as near as it can be, cuddled up for a close harmony...
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Buttons
The Dog has been a trifle indisposed for the last couple of weeks. She had started limping and a thorough examination of her pads revealed nothing untoward, nor did she object to having her joints...
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Jay Walking
This is actually, one of Jackie’s pictures. The bird table is in the back garden and the kitchen window looks out in that direction. One of Jackie’s self imposed tasks is to keep the bird feeders...
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Yellow Fidget
It was pouring with rain this morning and it was close to coffee time too, so The Dog and I agreed on just a potter up the road to the village green and back. A good part of the way is under the...
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Pensioned Off
If you were a Greyhound and getting to be a bit less supple, it would be nice to think, somewhere there was a comfortable chair, near a fire when necessary, out there, waiting just for you. If you were...
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One Good Turn
This picture is the result of this Foxglove growing in a convenient position, so that I was able to stick the camera right up its nose. The really interesting thing is the little hairs, almost like a...
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Brand New
To be brutally honest, The Dog and I are not early risers. Jackie prefers early mornings and I do try to join in as she greets each bleary morning with gusto, but I just can’t whip up the enthusiasm....
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Artistic Assylum
In the spring of 1890, just before he left the mental hospital that he had agreed to be confined to, Vincent van Gogh painted ‘Wild Roses’. Two months, later, at only thirty seven, he died from a...
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Stung
This gentleman, standing by the bridge over the beck, is looking a little forlorn. There isn’t a lady in sight, just this bunch of guys, leaning on the railings alone with their fantasies, watching the...
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Catalog
Catkins are those, usually yellow, flowers that hang around on trees – and all sorts of other plants too. Wikipedia says that he once thought that all plants that produced catkin like flowers, belonged...
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