Dorset
Well, here we are. Send for a bugle, it’s the Last Post. Couldn’t decide which image to use, so some friends (you know who you are!) suggested this and very […]
Dorset
It has been a difficult week. On 28th December 2010, one of my younger son’s friends passed away unexpectedly aged 24. As you can imagine my son and his friends […]
Dorset
This is a photograph of my automata. I have been collecting them for years from places such as the Cabaret Mechanical Theatre and Dansel Gallery in Dorset. They are made […]
Pets
This is who Milo and I met on our walk today. Milo couldn’t decide if the horse was a large version of him or he was a small version of […]
Dorset
I glanced out tof the kitchen window and spotted half a dozen or so ducks sitting on the riverbank opposite my garden. They were all standing in a […]
Dorset
A sure remedy for the post-festivity, rubbish weather, January blues. The dose to be adjusted to personal taste and accompanied by a really good movie and a warm dog. Worked […]
Dorset
When I first started to bind books, I bought leather pieces from Falkiners (now Shepherds) – my favourite place for bookbinding supplies. More recently, I discovered that Pittards in Yeovil, […]
Dorset
I wish that this blog had sound effects, you would be able to hear Milo snoring loudly. His legs keep twitching – he must be dreaming. Let sleeping dogs lie…
Gorgeous! Darn invasive plants and their beauty luring ppl into planting them…
I know! They are the scourge of this neck of the woods…along with nasty Giant Hogweed 🙂
The Hogweed is definitely worse though: not as pretty and is poisonous (or did you say stinging?).
If you touch Hogweed, you break out in huge blisters and then your skin falls off. Not nice.
Oh that’s right: blisters…nasty stuff!