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Derek – Friday 20th January 2023
It has been icy cold for the last week, but dry. This weather is bad for birds, many will freeze to death, as will many insects including bees. We keep our bird…
20th January 2023 -
Derek – Saturday 31st December 2022
Winter is a fluid season; when it begins and ends is arguable. With climate change all the more so, as warm spells follow cold spells adding to the confusion. We had a…
31st December 2022 -
Derek – Saturday 10th December 2022
It’s been very cold the last few days, no rain, with temperatures close to zero and a few degrees below overnight. There’s ice on the pond and on the trays we have…
10th December 2022 -
Derek – Sunday 27th November 2022
Leaves are falling. The few left in the cherry tree are yellow and red. A fierce wind will clear the branches. The sycamore is two-thirds gone, its yellow leaves continually swept off…
27th November 2022 -
Derek – Friday 11th November 2022
We have had a lot of rain recently. October had over 100 mm, twice the usual rainfall. November too is giving us daily showers. All our water barrels are brimming, which is…
11th November 2022 -
Derek – Saturday 29th October 2022
We had our festival, Welcome To Winter, today. A warm, sunny day, on the verge of Halloween. Halloween is short for All Hallows Eve, which is the day before All Saints Day.…
29th October 2022 -
Derek – Sunday 16th October 2022
It’s a bright sunny morning. Warm in the sun but a little chilly in the shade. The ground is scattered with helicopters from the sycamore, its leaves beginning to yellow. Around the…
16th October 2022 -
Derek – Sunday 2nd October 2022
These are the chilly days as the nights grow longer and autumn deepens. Day temperatures are in the mid-teens, and at night below 10 degrees. I see no animal life in the…
2nd October 2022 -
Derek – Sunday 18th September 2022
It is Autumn, or nearly so. Meteorological autumn began on 1 September, so we are well into that. But astronomical autumn starts in a few days’ time. The Greenwich Observatory give the…
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Derek – Sunday 4th September 2022
On Friday, we tidied up the hundreds of pots filling the back stage in order to make it usable for functions other than storage. This threw up the problem of what to…
4th September 2022