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 […]
April 22, 2010
Let's talk about the meadow, because that is of course what you are reading this for.
September 21, 2009
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 […]
September 20, 2009
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 […]
September 5, 2009
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, […]
July 4, 2009
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 […]
June 27, 2009
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 […]
June 22, 2009
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)
June 20, 2010
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