Showing posts with the label Weekend Wandering

Separated at birth? Primates

We had a lovely time at Avebury Manor 's sculpture exhibition on Saturday and my friend W  kind…

Postcard from Germany

We're back from a tour of the middle Rhine area, having travelled there by train and then makin…

Big Butterfly Count 2023: The results are in

The Big Butterfly Count is one of my favourite 15 minutes of the year. Being in the garden without…

Unusual Front Gardens #38: Lawnmower

Sunday's scarecrow trail over at Pewsham provided the latest unusual front garden in the shape …

Have a Jubbly Jubilee

It's Bank Holiday time for us to celebrate the Queen's Platinum Jubilee and amongst the usu…

Weekend Wandering: Bluebell surprise

Some days just make your heart sing and Saturday was one of them. One of my WI friends arranged fo…

Weekend Wandering: Wildflowers

It's the May bank holiday and coincidentally peak flowering time for two of our most iconic spr…

Weekend Wandering: A new sculpture trail

I returned to one of my regular walks last week and found a delightful surprise along the way. It t…

Weekend Wandering: The hunt for Lanhill Longbarrow

Last weekend's walk was a new-to-me-route from home and full of surprises. The quest was to fin…

For World Poetry Day

I spent some time this morning looking for a suitable poem about spring or blossom to mark today…

Travels in mind

With our third Lockdown in full swing it's easy to start thinking about the places we can't…

Weekend wandering: A fresh look at Poinsettias

I've tended to pass poinsettias by in the run up to Christmas, but this tasteful display in a l…

Weekend Wandering: Festive Chippenham

My walks have seen me in the centre of Chippenham a lot more lately because it's taken on quite…

Weekend Wandering: The priority postbox

A sunny day earlier in the week, a new walk to explore courtesy of the Bremhill Parish History Grou…

Garden Bloggers' Muse Day: A good fragrance

The author may have been referring to perfume in his novel , but I've been musing on the very s…

The Wheelbarrow of Happiness

I thoroughly broke my plant buying duck at the weekend with a trip to the public plant sale at West…

Weekend Wandering: To the Sunflowers!

Chippenham is currently all a-buzz with news of the appearance of a huge field of sunflowers to th…

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