17 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 [...]
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17 August 2009 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman DUNCLIFFE LANDSCAPE ON MONDAY EARLY EVENING
Monday, August 17th, 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 »9 June 2009: DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman OAK AT CHERRY ORCHARD, LOOKING UP AFTER FEEDING THE BADGERS
Tuesday, June 9th, 20099 June 2009 OAK AT CHERRY ORCHARD Down at Cherry Orchard, just off the triangle by the turning for Coles, stands an old oak. It is said, by whoever it is that says these things, that when left to its own devices an oak grows for 300 years, rests another 300, then after a further [...]
Read More »1 May 2009: DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman COMBINED RELIEF, SWEDES ARE IN
Friday, May 1st, 20091 May 2009 COMBINED RELIEF There has been an explosion of growth since a saving grace arrival of the rains. Where blossoms were fading and hedgerows illuminating tentatively voluptuous and curvaceous green from naked, skeletal dark browns, now country bosoms heave with the dripping cascade of shiny new foliage, as if in homage to the [...]
Read More »26 April 2009: DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman DOWN THE BLUEBELL WOODS
Sunday, April 26th, 200926 April 2009 DOWN THE BLUEBELL WOODS Standing in a bluebell wood at the end of April, with sunshine on your back and a shadow out in front one second then dullness and a wind that makes you button up your coat the next, is to be amongst something beautiful and distinctly English. The psychedelia [...]
Read More »20 April 2009: DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman POT MARIGOLD SEEDLINGS, DRIVING TO & FROM BOURTON, BADGERS GETTING DESPERATE
Monday, April 20th, 200920 April 2009 POT MARIGOLD SEEDLINGS Each year I grow pot marigolds, aka Calendula, around the plot. They are brilliant flowers; colourful, edible, beloved by all manner of insects and, come autumn, bulky enough to make a real positive contribution to the compost heap. I rarely sow them from fresh any more as they self [...]
Read More »17 April 2009: DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman A CUP OF TEA WITH ROBBIE, GHOSTS OF WOODLANDS PAST
Friday, April 17th, 200917 April 2009 A CUP OF TEA WITH ROBBIE And still in Dorset we have no rain of any consequence. In the vale soils are hard and baking. Up here on higher ground the unprotected surface lightens in hue and is getting dusty. Early in the week I heard the forecast was for rain. It [...]
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