Monthly Archives: May 2011

May 31st 2011 Such a lot has happened in the last ten days I haven’t had any time to catch up with the blog, which is a shame.  so here is a little round -up of events to get us … Continue reading →

David bought me a Kindle as a present this week and I am quite entranced by it. For those of you who don’t know, it’s a slim line electronic reader on which you can store hundreds of books, and yes, … Continue reading →

Sunday May 15th. The horse trials are on this weekend. Last week they were worried that the ground would be so hard they couldn’t hold them. -last year they had to cancel because the weather was too wet- but this … Continue reading →

Sunday May 8th I remember this song from my childhood in the 50s, when it struck a particularly mysterious chord for me, “mother cried!”  Why should one’s mother cry over rain?  But it impinged on me somehow the power of … Continue reading →

 Saturday May 8th.   When I came home from London late on Thursday night, David told me that a botanist had been round to say we have a very rare daffodil growing in the churchyard. It is white with a tiny … Continue reading →

May 2nd Double bank holiday weekend, and enough deep blue skies to satisfy even me. warm in the sun, but a wicked wind blowing, – “rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, ” – I should say so, … Continue reading →