Today the garden is part of the National Garden scheme. The proceeds we collect go to charity. When I arrive, I am surprised by the number of children with their parents. It is good to see us busy. The ukulele players are not here today. They felt they would take up too much room but I feel it is a …
A plumber has fixed the leak in the water pipes coming to our tap. So we have running water again, and don’t we need it. We have not had a decent downpour since early April when we had 3mm of rain. A dribble. It goes on and on, this dry spell. It was why we had running water put in, …
We have had 3 mm of rain in the last month. Last night, we had a teaser of rain. It looked like it was going to be a real storm. The BBC forecast suggested it would be. But just a few drops, dark skies, and that was that. It didn’t even register on the garden rain gauge. This is serious, …
We have had just 3 mm of rain this month. The average for April in London is around 40 mm with 10 to 16 rainy days. We have had just one this month. In a couple more weeks our barrels will be dry. At least, we have a tap. I think of farms and how they suffer at times like …
The garden is full of spring. At the front of the garden we have the pink cherry with its showy blossom, intermingling with the white blossom of the hawthorn, also known as the May Tree. Here ard there in the garden are three cornered leeks, like white bluebells, the latter around too. The old regulars: marigolds and kerria keep on …
It’s around 12 degrees but feels colder because of the chilly wind. The sun comes in and out of the clouds. We have been donated a few tadpoles. Yesterday, they were together, more of less, so very visible. Today, they have dispersed and are hard to spot. Tadpoles don’t stay together. They have no collective sense. They are fishlike and …
It is the spring equinox today, when we have equal night and day. After today, the days win out over the nights. From 12 hours at the equinox, the day length will extend to 16 hours by midsummer. Today also hails astronomical spring, as opposed to meteorological spring which began on March 1st. Where are the tadpoles? I search the …
We are not to be the host of the cargo bike from OurBike. I feel we were misled as we didn’t realise we were competing with at least one other group. That had not come up when Douglas came down to explain the scheme. We thought we just had to agree the scheme. Well we did, with some reservations. Our …
Today is the first day of Meteorological spring, covering the three months March, April and May. The year is divided up into four three monthly seasons in this splitting of the year. Astronomical spring begins on the equinox which falls on 20 March this year. It is the day of equal day and night, from when the northern hemisphere begins …
We had a visit from Douglas Leroy from OurBike, a community e-bike company. To discuss whether we would want to be a host for a cargo bike. A cargo bike is one of those bikes with a big bucket in front that can carry cargo, this one up to 100 kg of goods or people. We sometimes see them around …
