I've had my eye on the Raspberry Shake seismometer for a couple of years now. Last week, I finally succumbed...
Gardening is People
Some decades ago, my folks were planning their garden; a friend of the family who happened to be an old...
Nacreous Clouds
It was a pretty decent red sunset but seeing polar stratospheric (nacreous) clouds for the first time is the icing...
Now with added solar panels
The first thing I did on buying a new house in November was to have solar panels installed. Like, within...
Sodium Glow
There's something a bit romantic about the cosiness of suburban streets in the fog. [caption id="attachment_1333" align="alignnone" width="640"] Perth on...
Nocturnal Visitor
A hedgehog living in the parents' garden - a delightful honour to see the wee thing strolling around of an...
Proto-Spuds
Having installed raspberries in January, today saw the second significant planting of the year: an old flower bed given a...
Old and New
The very last of last year's crab-apples, lying in a patch of this year's new snowdrop growth.
Preemptive
It's not even New Year yet, and already that's the leeks moved and replaced with the 20 new raspberry canes...