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Why I’ll read the fine print next time

June 20, 2010

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It’s June, it’s hot and I have been in Dorset for 1 year now. Things are pretty much as I have previously described, apart from the meadow. That has grown a bit. The spring is truly remarkable, and here you can see the meadow growing from about 1 inch in late (22nd) April to over […]

You can stop the planes, but you can’t stop the spring

April 22, 2010

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Let's talk about the meadow, because that is of course what you are reading this for.

Meadow flowers

September 21, 2009

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I don’t really have an explanation as to why I decided to grow the meadow (I’m sticking with the name meadow even though it is only 15 m2). I suppose there are several reasons: it requires little maintenance we are in a field, it makes sense if it was spring time, I may have done […]

Forking and hoeing

September 20, 2009

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First off, I really don’t get enough time to write in here, and if I did, this would be much more interesting because I have many sources for new  and interesting experiences. The boys alone make me think about me and my own life in new ways and that’s fun in itself, but this is […]

the project

September 5, 2009

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We have been here nearly three months, and the summer is almost gone, and the days are drawing in.  This morning we had some fine weather and the the four of us were out in the garden. Digging and burning stuff, two of my favourite pastimes. There are a lot of brambles around. These things are annoying, […]

Every silver lining has a cloud

July 4, 2009

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So things are great, I haven’t started my new job yet, and the weather has been pretty damned good. Fantastic even. Life in the country side is good. There is a family of foxes in the next-door field, and we often see the vixen and her two cubs playing silly games, and I’m sure I’ll […]

Make hay while the sun shines

June 27, 2009

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The farmer turned up on his tractor on Tuesday and mowed the field; to be honest I was rather disappointed not to find any cows in the next door field on the day we moved in. The snap below was taken in August 2007, and I was quite excited by the prospect at being greeted […]

Room with a view

June 22, 2009

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So this is it, the big one, after nearly 20 years in London (26th August 1989 to 16 June 2009), I’m here in rural Dorset. And I’ve got a room with a view (and off street parking)