PINCH PUNCH I didn’t have my bino’s with me but could still see a greenfinch, plumply sitting on a thin wisp of branch from a silver birch which stands elegantly above the conifers and shrubs in an ornamental allotment plot we have here in St James called ’Dorothy’s Garden’. Greenfinch provided a pleasant and appropriate musical accompliment to the [...]
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1 February 2010 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman PINCH PUNCH
Monday, February 1st, 201031 August 2009 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman COUNTING APPLES, A VIEW FROM CHERRY ORCHARD TO GUY’S MARSH AND LITTLE LONDON
Monday, August 31st, 200931 August 2009 COUNTING APPLES I managed to get out the house for gardening shortly after 2pm. It was lovely. The swirling 36-hour mist had gone on and been replaced by brilliant late-August sunshine. The weather grumblers should be pleased, although there remains a decent breeze. I’m sat beneath St James Hanging, a precipitous slope [...]
Read More »16 July 2009 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman GREAT TIT ON HOGWEED
Thursday, July 16th, 200916 July 2009 GREAT TIT ON HOGWEED It’s when you take time to just watch the world around you that you see the most, experience the thrill of wild creatures coming towards you rather than hurrying away in fright. Like just now… I was quietly crouched on the bottom path, slowly working along the bottom [...]
Read More »13 May 2009: DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman JUBILEE STEPS WEDNESDAY MORNING 9.30am
Wednesday, May 13th, 200913 May 2009 JUBILEE STEPS, WEDNESDAY MORNING, 9.30AM On Jubilee Steps between St James Park and Abbey Walk. I can smell the scent of moisture on the ground. It rises as a fresh aroma in response to an overnight sprinkling of misty drizzle. But nothing like the rainfall that was forecast as coming in and [...]
Read More »11 April 2009: DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman PEACE & TRANQUILITY
Saturday, April 11th, 200911 April 2009 PEACE & TRANQUILITY 2.34pm: It’s the perfect afternoon for gardening. Nothing on the agenda, no outside commitments to fulfil. An opportunity to lose oneself in the world of nature, how it works and what it can produce. Apart from birdsong, bees and the music of Morris dancing (in The Two Brewers pub [...]
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