The Antidote

I’m a city girl but sometimes I crave something else.  Yesterday I very much wanted – no, needed – a short visit to the seaside and so we drove the 124 miles across four counties to get to a favourite place.  And the weather was on our side.  The skies were blue, the sea was [...]

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The Reward

I could have stayed in bed, in the warm and felt myself justified because of the horrible headache that I woke with.  I was very tempted.  From the warmth of the house the outside world looked grey and gloomy and very, very cold.  But no!  Yesterday had been the start of a new healthier-me regime [...]

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Timing is essential

When I was given a pot of spindly, weak-looking cosmos seedlings I wasn’t hopeful.  It was late in the growing season, I thought, and the weather had been unpredictable but I didn’t want to seem ungrateful for the gift.  I planted them together in a spare bed at the back of the garden and left [...]

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Sometimes…

… I have to go looking for something lovely to photograph and sometimes it comes to me.  This is just one such time.  The moth must have been attracted by my bathroom light and finally settled on the bottle of bath milk… When I’d finished photographing her from various angles I helped this little beauty back [...]

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Instant Sunshine

I’ve never grown one of these even though I love their bright, sunny faces.  I think it’s something to do with their potential height that overwhelms me and stops me popping a seed or two into the soil.  So I do the next best thing and photograph the best I find and use pictures like this one to [...]

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Sandcastles

There was something sad about the beach at the end of the day.  Somehow the silence seemed louder to me than all the laughter and shouts of pleasure and squeels of excitement that I imagined filling the air a few hours earlier.  Perhaps I’m simply recalling all those sunny days I spent on similar beaches with my own children and [...]

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Foxed

As it was so nice, I went for a walk this morning and wandered across some nearby fields.  The sight of the buds and blossoms always makes me glad to be in England in the spring… Everywhere I looked there were signs of new life … And while I looked at this little lamb snuggled [...]

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