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Category: Nature

Last on the card – March primroses

April 4, 2025

The ancestors of these primroses jumped into a plant pot in Wales and made a journey…

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River Brit

June 8, 2024

The last photo for May is of the River Brit. A place full of memories, but always changing.

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Unseasonable

December 21, 2023

Christmas music, fairy lights and – cherry blossom?

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Turning the tide

December 10, 2023

I was just in time to add my contribution to the December Poetry Challenge from Fake Flamenco. The challenge was to write using the Japanese form; dodoitsu.

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White-out on Black Down

December 1, 2023

The view from Hardy’s monument in Dorset is best known for its breath-taking panorama…

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August Surprise!

September 8, 2023

I’m always surprised by the last photo I took for the month. This time it’s the allotment, which feeds me and my imagination. Join in with Bushboy’s Last on the card challenge.

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Late strawberries

June 16, 2023

My last post contained a little mystery – the only puzzle this time is how come it takes me over two weeks to join in with Brian’s Last on the card challenge!

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Cover me with flowers

April 8, 2023

The last photo on my phone for March is a herald of Spring – the celandine. Late entry for bushboy’s Last on the Card Challenge. Some not totally irrelevant advance news of inclusion in a new anthology.

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August – Last on the card

September 2, 2022

Berry me. Taking part in bushboy’s last on the card challenge. For fun!

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July – Last on the card

August 2, 2022

Co-incidentally, my 100th published post.

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