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Late Summer – Spectacular Flowers
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The Woods
The local Community Woods group kept up our work parties through most of the worst of all this pandemic malarkey. After all, it’s all outdoors. And we keep well apart one from the other. So except for the first six … Continue reading
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Cold slow spring at the allotment
It’s been a cold slow spring. Windy. Wet. Fairly yucky all told. The plot grows on, but in a slow steady kind of way. This time last year we were gorging on strawberries. This year they’re forming more slowly and … Continue reading
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chilli update & outfoxing the foxes
After a week of heatwave conditions of over 30 degrees in London, the weather turned on Thursday 13 August with spectacular thunder, lightning and torrential rain. No doubt the Hungarian chilli plant enjoyed the sweltering conditions more than we did, … Continue reading
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shoe mystery solved
We’ve been cursing our neighbourhood lately. Pandemic aside, our little leafy corner of north London is awash in rubbish. Missed garbage collections on the circus makes for growing tides of swirling garbage. Drives super-dude nuts – to the extent that … Continue reading
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July’s over…
July ended with a mini-heatwave. We arrived at the start of this week and simply had to photograph the temperature – partly to prove to ourselves it really was over 36º – and this from the thermometer installed on the … Continue reading
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second brood of sparrow fledglings
It’s been variable in London – spells of cool weather, then hot and humid, then more cool and rain. Today started with sun but quickly turned overcast then wet. We’d been tricked by the forecast for rain later in the … Continue reading
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stargazing day & night
The stargazer asiatic lily has finally come into bloom in the back patch. All through April and May I monitored for the dreaded red lily beetle – which did manage (again!!!) to completely strip a few of the garden lilies … Continue reading
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beautiful, beguiling butterflies
At the plot we’re waiting for things to grow… It’s all looking lush and bountiful. Alas there have been disappointments and failures too. Due to the cool conditions this summer, things are taking a little time to get going. … Continue reading
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other July fliers..
It’s not all just about butterflies. Another interesting event we witnessed up at the plot was evidence of ‘Flying Ant Day.’ There were at least two nests we witnessed erupting into activity as a new queen ant took to the … Continue reading
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Philosophising... 