PEACE ON A SEAT Late morning, little over an hour before the noon. Castle Hill slopes, dark and cool in shaded glory, are ringing with the sounds of birds. On the flats, where walkers stroll and the grass is kept short, shadows are reducing towards the brambly foots. Jack-hammers up in town, planes overhead, background [...]
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5 February 2010 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman PEACE ON A SEAT, FOXGLOVES
Friday, February 5th, 201028 October 2009 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman HOT WEATHER AT THE END OF OCTOBER
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009I don’t doubt for a moment that I’m not the only home-producer still picking delicious raspberries. Such has been the weather that my autumn-bearing canes still hang heavy with luscious fruit. I vied for a ripe ’un with a bee who was after flowers on the same bunch. We both got what we wanted. True, [...]
Read More »21 August 2009 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman BLACKBIRD IN THE GUTTER, BLOWSY BORDERS
Friday, August 21st, 200917 August 2009 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman DUNCLIFFE LANDSCAPE ON MONDAY EARLY EVENING
Monday, August 17th, 200917 August 2009 DUNCLIFFE LANDSCAPE ON MONDAY EARLY EVENING A field below the engine stops. Farmer alights from tractor cab and walks to the yard. His hay is turned. I stop thinking and listen. Cockerels. Grasshoppers. Bees. Barking dogs. Vehicles. Birdsong. Rooks. Cows. Children’s voices. Not in that particular order, not continuous. Some more than [...]
Read More »11 August 2009 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman AN EXPLANATION FOR FAILING RUNNER BEANS?
Tuesday, August 11th, 200911 August 2009 AN EXPLANATION FOR FAILING RUNNER BEANS? My mother phoned the other day to ask me why her runner beans were not setting. She started them in toilet rolls in spring and planted out her strapping youngsters (“the best ever at that stage”) into enriched soil in a sunny place after all reasonable [...]
Read More »6 August 2009 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman A CLOSE ENCOUNTER IN THE SHED WITH FRED
Thursday, August 6th, 20096 August 2009 A CLOSE ENCOUNTER IN THE SHED WITH FRED I opened up the shed this morning to sort out bits for my day ahead. In the side room, formerly an aviary full of finches and other cage birds but gutted by me some years ago and converted into a vegetable store, a peacock [...]
Read More »31 July 2009 DIRTY NAILS’ LOG by Joe Hashman OBSERVING FLOWERS
Friday, July 31st, 200913 July 2009 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman TREES IN CARDIFF
Monday, July 13th, 200913 July 2009 TREES IN CARDIFF My step-daughter graduated today with a high 2:1 reading English at Cardiff. We were all there to share her moment. The journey from Diana Street to The Hayes took place during a break in the showers in a vehicle with the sun roof open. I faced backwards and, rather [...]
Read More »27June 2009 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman WASPS IN THE BIRD BOX, WASPS IN ST JAMES
Saturday, June 27th, 200927 June 2009 WASPS IN THE BIRD BOX One of the bird boxes in my mum and dad’s garden, in the Vale of White Horse five miles south of Oxford, is home to a nest of wasps. I noticed it this afternoon on a visit while looking round the borders and beds. It’s on the [...]
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