SHOOTERS LANE IN SNOW Half-way betwixt the High Street and Leyton Lane. All you can hear is the gurgle of water in some underground drain, tweets and scolds of blackbird and great tit, and the pitter-patter of falling snow: not flakes, but fresh-fall melts in mini avalanches from the tunnel of twigs and branches. Stand [...]
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13 January 2010 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman SHOOTERS LANE IN SNOW, RARE DELIGHT
Wednesday, January 13th, 20108 January 2010 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman THOUGHTS & OBSERVATIONS, SNOWBALLS
Friday, January 8th, 2010THOUGHTS & OBSERVATIONS – A man eyeing up cakes in the supermarket. Thinking of getting one to have as a treat on the way home. Sharing hello’s and a chuckle. ”No one will know unless you fall over and leave one half sticking out your gob!” – Buying pearl barley for the first time in Donkey’s [...]
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 »28 May 2009: DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman A MORNING AFTER RAIN, PAINTED LADY SUMMER
Thursday, May 28th, 200928 May 2009 A MORNING AFTER RAIN What a lovely change from recent weeks to rise and shine on the morning after a day of rain. Plants are looking better for it; greener, lusher, more full of the sap that flows and translocates the stuff of life. The air feels fresher. Activity on the plot [...]
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