When I was at school, many moons ago now, history was something that was taught to us without the strictures surrounding Colonialism, White Supremacy, Racism and the usual “phobia”. When I discovered that a replica [more…]
Not being too knowledgeable where apiary is concerned, but also knowing that some bees do build their homes underground, both the head of the B&M department and myself assumed that the black and yellow stripey [more…]
I’ve learned to kind of expect the unexpected where the greenhouse is concerned. There’s rarely a day goes by when there aren’t at least one or two (feathered) birds in there, struggling to find its [more…]
A Proper Yawk Up © Colin Cross, Going Postal 2026[/caption] If there’s one certain way to ensure that the long awaited “summer” doesn’t last anywhere near as long as one might hope it would, it’s [more…]
I’d been pottering about in the greenhouse for an hour or so after opening up the shed and decided it was time for a drink of water. Much panicked flapping of wings greeted me, the [more…]
Since my last missive the weather’s taken a bit of a turn for the worse, but then it is summer in England. Some of the plants, as is the way with nature, are grateful for [more…]
Over the course of my fortnightly ramblings, my loyal reader may, (or more likely) may not have noticed a growing pile of rotting wood inside a rail fence which sits just outside the shed. It [more…]
Why on earth would anyone cut a discarded length of plastic water pipe into (very roughly) two inch lengths, may or may not be the first question that springs to the mind of my long [more…]
I arrived at the greenhouse on Saturday to find that Burt had returned from his winter sojourn in a bit of a sorry state. He’d been visiting distant relatives somewhere in central Europe (either Albania, [more…]
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