HURRYING SLOWLY Whilst nursing a cup of tea first thing, to wake up… …eight pigeons clapper-board in powerful flight, veering right to left. Blackbirds steer low and straight, either directly in line with my seat, head-on or, with an audible whoosh, coming in to sight from behind my head. A pair of blue tits check [...]
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12 February 2010 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman HURRYING SLOWLY, SCHOOL LANE GILLINGHAM, JUST THINKING, THE PRACTICE OF GARDENING
Friday, February 12th, 20104 January 2010 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman JUBILEE STEPS AT TEN IN THE MORNING, (LACK OF) VISION
Monday, January 4th, 2010JUBILEE STEPS AT TEN IN THE MORNING 10am: a dozen or so blackbirds stripping berries from Jubilee Steps cotoneasters. With ground hoar-frosted and hard as iron, it’s a mercy for our feathered friends that such a heavy bounty is to be had. They scorn the scarlet berry clusters during autumn, as if saving themselves for [...]
Read More »2 January 2010 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman WHILST SITTING ON THE FLATTENED BUTT OF AN ANCIENT POLLARD OAK
Saturday, January 2nd, 2010WHILST SITTING ON THE FLATTENED BUTT OF AN ANCIENT POLLARD OAK… … a country robin flitted between nine tanalised fence posts which bordered the bottom of an uncut thorny hedge, one-by-one. It surveyed the frozen pasture from the flattened top of each in turn. Jenny wren emerged from a tangle of dead brambles, looked left [...]
Read More »18 September 2009 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman HOMEWARD IN FRIDAY RUSH HOUR
Friday, September 18th, 200918 September 2009 HOMEWARD IN FRIDAY RUSH HOUR I’ve been here before: smoothly negotiating the A303 at Countess roundabout then, slamming on the anchors, almost immediately grinding to a halt. In front ahead, two lanes of brake lights stretching up and curving round the left-handed bend. I crawl with fellow inmates between smog-stained crash barriers [...]
Read More »27 March 2009: DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman HOW WILL THE EARTH KEEP BREATHING?
Friday, March 27th, 200927 March 2009 HOW WILL THE EARTH KEEP BREATHING? Blossom which decorates either side of Le Neuembourg Way in Gillingham is at its zenith right now. Those thorns seem to peak earlier than others in the surrounding countryside and hedgerows and what a treat they provide. Betwixt the Waitrose turn and traffic lights at the [...]
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