Author: etchellsWeb

  • Finding Morph

    We set off for London on the 07:55 train and spent the day wandering London looking for Morph. Well, 56 Morphs to be precise. This was a special trail to celebrate the plasticine model. This is a picture of the first Morph on the trail along with Susan. As you can see it was raining…

  • New Holiday Highlight Page added

    New Holiday Highlight Page added

    Fire, Mud and Ice – a snapshot of out tour of Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia has been added to the Holiday Highlights Menu – click HERE to go directly there.

  • Morning Sunshine

    Morning Sunshine

    It’s good to see the sun coming through the trees at the back of the garden in the mornings now. It manages to shine through the stained glass window installed in a bit of a wall at the bottom of the garden. It looks like there’s another job for the list – the paintwork needs…

  • The Apples are ready!

    The Apples are ready!

    After a lot of nurturing, watering and waiting the apples on the miniature Cox’s Apple Tree are ready. The apples surely aren’t miniature! Here’s a sample

  • How many Blackcurrants?

    How many Blackcurrants?

    Susan has been watching the Blackcurrants turn black over the last week or so. Picking a time to harvest them is a balance between waiting for them to become ripe and harvesting them before the birds do. Today was the day. Harvest – Wash – Top and Tail – Freeze. Oh and of course, count!…

  • Wriggling Tadpoles

    Wriggling Tadpoles

    True to form, we now have a couple of thousand tadpoles I’d estimate. They group together in their frogspawn groups and seem to be eating what’s left of the spawn jelly as well as popping up for air. Open up the Post to see the video.

  • Where’s the water?

    Where’s the water?

    We were pleased to see that the groups of Frogspawn had arrived in the pond this year. What was not as good was that the pond level had dropped about 8 inches (20 cm for the initiated). I tried filling up from the water butts as usual but it didn’t seem to make much difference.…

  • Grendon Daffodil Festival

    Grendon Daffodil Festival

    This was our first “Open Gardens” outing and it was coupled with the village Daffodil Festival. The village had gone all-out to plant daffodils around the verges and in gardens, etc. There were specialist daffodils and plants to buy. There was a great selection of locally baked cakes to accompany the morning coffee stop and…

  • Duck inspection

    Duck inspection

    We’ve had a few ducks in the pond over the last few years. This year’s visitors hadn’t settled when I saw them, they were still checking out the place. A pair of ducks wandering around the garden checking us out. On one of our many Open Gardens visits we visited a rear garden of a…

  • What Flooding?

    What Flooding?

    We’re signed up to the Environment Agency Flooding Alerts and we do receive them now and then. One came today, 20th February, it always makes sure it gets your attention. All at the same time we receive a text, an email and an automated phone call. You have to listen to the phone call all…