Having summer hose fun 🙂
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Having summer hose fun 🙂
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And not benign
What is unfolding
Is by design
In no way subtle
In fact hell bent
With obvious tones
Of malicious intent
For your safety
Was a clever way
To get all the folk
To do as they say
But with our eyes
In reality
What’s being said
Is not what we see
So shut away
We must now wait
For them to decide
And roll out our fate

Rhyme and Reason
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I decided to make flapjacks for the first time in over 20 years but in the process the golden syrup caught my eye once I measured it out…

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A magical sunrise that looked like it could have been painted. I may try and paint this one day but I doubt I could do it justice.

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This was a real treat and I still don’t really know how my husband spotted it.

But there it was, aware of us too and seemingly wanting to start making a getaway.

But i managed to follow him around for a few minutes and see what a strange creature he really, even compared to the other mantises I had seen.



Goes down as one of the most alien creatures I have ever seen.
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Sometimes these are called rainbow apparently, they say “Iridescent clouds occurs in a cloud and appears in the general proximity of the Sun or Moon”.

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One the more well known long barrows in England, Wayland’s Smithy. This is a stunning location and quite a site to behold when you get to the enclosure. Although situated on the ancient Ridgeway, it’s quite a walk from our known paths and roads so feels like quite a remote location. Only a mile apparently from the Uffington White Horse in Oxfordshire.

This one has also been reconstructed and only the front is exposed and accessible.

It’s very impressive when you see the size of the stones and walk around the site. Human remains have been found at this site during excavations, but from an earlier structure that this barrow was built on top of, without further bodies or burials being mentioned.

It’s amazing what is just lying around above and below ground, literally just under your feet and you might not even know it…
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There haven’t been many of late since the cold weather moved in, but in the summer we had lots of different spiders. Here are a few I managed to capture, they don’t hang around!




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When you try to take a picture and your dog yawns into the camera instead. Nice.

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Another lovely December sunrise. I forget to download the photos from my Nikon sometimes and get a pleasant surprise weeks later when I go back through them.

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