23 October 2012

Damp mornings and spiders in the garden make for some interesting photographs this time of the year.

28 May 2012

Whilst out cycling this morning I turned a corner and almost ran over Mr Pooh. He didn't look well and had obviously spent the night in the alley. Looks like he's back on the nectar again.

3 May 2012

After surviving the wettest April on record we appear to be entering what could become the wettest May since records began. Hardly a day goes by without any rain and we still have a hosepipe ban!

11 March 2012

Thousands of people filled every vantage point for this mornings demolition of the cooling towers and chimney at Richborough power station in east Kent. The towers crumpled like they were made of cardboard and the whole thing was over in less than a minute. Driving past the site later in the day was very odd, all that was left are the three bases. If you need a reminder of how it looked before today go back to the post of 7 March 2012.

9 March 2012

Lin and I visited Margate today to see the Turner exhibition at the Turner Contemporary and we both really enjoyed it. The Turner Contemporary had brought a lot of visitors to Margate, many more than they thought and it has helped to improve the immediate area around the gallery, but if you go more than a few hundred yards from the gallery the sad, worn out side of Margate is only too evident.

7 March 2012

Only four days to go before these towers at the old Richborough power station get demolished. Built in 1962 and unused for many years the three cooling towers and the tall chimney have been a blot on the landscape of East Kent for 50 years. Some people have even campaigned to save them, thank goodness they lost their battle.

18 February 2012

The broad beans on our allotment have survived the recent snow and cold weather, but they are showing signs of being nibbled. We planted them a few months ago to give them chance to beat the cold and give us a slightly earlier crop. The old wives story says that if you plant them in late autumn they don't suffer later on with blackfly. Up until a couple of years ago we always found that to be true, but in the last two years we have had bad attacks of blackfly.