I cuddled Soot the nearly 20 year old cat until we set off in the car at 10.03am this morning, the sun was out and it was 8°C; and there was a stop at the shop down the road (where there was an unbelievable amount of alcohol - some in big skull shaped bottles, and … Continue reading A few seasonal photos… And the first Heritage Seed Library volunteering of 2023:

Despite the temperatures on this day, Mum and I had decided to head out - and once out and about, we drove past the lake at Ryton Pools, which was partially frozen and seagulls were stood on the ice, petrol was 155.9p/L and diesel was 179.9p/L at a Shell garage, and the local pet shop … Continue reading A wintery day out in December…

After a morning of making biscuits – which ended up as biscuit balls due to the exceptionally gooey dough I was dealing with… ...I dressed myself for a walk into town (due to needing to collect a hairbrush that wasn’t in the completely disintegrated and unusable state mine was), and at 2.20pm, it was 2 … Continue reading A few more Christmas observations…

It was drizzling at 7.42am – when the hens got up (unenthusiastically), Soot the cat was on my bed at that point, and I grabbed some crayons from downstairs and went and sat up there with him and did some colouring of a Christmas card I’d made for my mum. I kept colouring, Soot wedged … Continue reading Christmas observations in the town & some local volunteering …

This was a little while ago now, but a very memorable trip - and this day started off with a look around a market in the town of Ptonsk – where all sorts of things were for sale, including enormous flowers, bunches of flowers, jumpers, lots of net curtains, socks, jeans, corsets, washing powder, 20 … Continue reading An expedition exploring Poland – with a few friends…

This was a day when I was dozing until about 1:45 PM after a busy morning, and then the Knowle Teashops and Taverns walk was suggested, and we got ready. I was told something I forgot before putting my fleece and fur hat on, Soot the cat took over the warm spot left in my … Continue reading A squelchy ramble in Warwickshire…

On the drive to the wildlife reserve where we’d been volunteering, I saw a car which was having a sofa strapped to the top of it, and we parked on a hill in between some houses and a field; and once out of the car, we went up a path, met a thin man in … Continue reading A bit of volunteering in the woods…

My hair had looked revolting when I got up this morning so I got a grip and gave it a scrub, and it was really grey outside; the chickens had black cabbage up in the hen house and I sat with Soot the 19 year old cat (who was snoring back on my bed) before … Continue reading An arty autumny day…

A sign for Cadbury World wasn’t far from where we left the motorway just before 9.30am, and somewhere called Catshill was passed through on what seemed to be the Birmingham Road; the hotel and spa place where this Woodland Trust event was being held wasn’t spotted fast enough to get into, so Mum demonstrated a … Continue reading A recent walk with the Woodland Trust in a Bromsgrove wood

On day 11 of this trip, I managed to wash my hair using a sachet of shampoo already in the bathroom and just about got it all out of the sachet while having very wet hands; I got down to breakfast at 8:15am, J (who I was in a room with) had gone down about … Continue reading Another day in Mongolia – 2nd October 2018