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Winter into Spring

March 25, 2022

Snapshots of the Moon and Dorset with snippets from the diary at what turns out to be a difficult time.

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12 from 21

January 1, 2022

Odd looking back through a year in pictures, to see them in a mass stretching back ‘to this time last year’. I picked 12 of my nature photos – it seems I like shadows, odd angles and the sea.

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May begins

Up the Hill and Down

May 1, 2020

Walking over the Giant’s Head – Allington Hill from April into May.

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Mother’s Day in the age of Corona

March 20, 2020

To my mum, Corona was a fizzy drink with a deposit on the glass bottle, sometimes delivered with the groceries in pre-supermarket days.

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Slow it down

February 14, 2020

Time out of time is great for writing. But things are moving on too fast.

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Primroses for Mum

March 30, 2019

Primroses, primroses, jump into the pot
We’ll take you with us to the new garden
Where we hope you will be happy

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Mid-March WordlessWednesday #2

March 13, 2019

Magnificent Magnolia #Wordless Wednesday.

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Prunus flowers 23 February 2019

February fools

February 28, 2019

Spring has come early in 2019 in the Northern Hemisphere. It’s a wonderful thing to enjoy some sunshine and warmth. Such are the fleeting pleasures of unwanted climate change.

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One thing no one really knows about … April

April 30, 2018

It is a curious thing that… Continue reading “One thing no one really knows about … April”

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