I was trying to work out what my word of the week was for this week, as I pottered around the garden. It’s beautiful today and the early butterflies and bees are everywhere in the garden. Sitting down on the bench, to take it all in, Custard the hen joined […]
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On the hunt for Hunky Punks
A Hunky Punk is the Somerset name for a stone carving, found on the wall of a church. The oldest ones date back to Medieval times and generally are squat, crouching figures, carved high up on the outside of the building. Another name for Hunky Punks is a grotesque, but […]
Read morePrepared – my word of the week
Last weekend I discovered that somehow I’ve stopped listening to the weather forecast. No idea when that happened. Maybe it’s a winter thing. If I had, then I might have been better prepared for the snow that hit us in the early hours of Saturday morning. Usually this wouldn’t be […]
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Happy St David’s Day. We seemed to have tip toed into March and spring, meteorologically speaking, without much hullabaloo. It’s the first of March already. Daffodils are opening up all over our garden, the sun is out and we’ll be breaking out the welsh cakes later to celebrate. After a […]
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