…on their website. Did the president choose for everyone? Was the president’s choice the same as the public’s vote? Did Monty and the BBC producers actually muddle the two choices?…

…Actinidia kolomitka Actinidia kolomitka Cutting the ribbon with Terence, Lizzie and Thomas. Big speech. Cutting the ribbon Cutting the ribbon Cutting the ribbon Cutting the ribbon Cutting the ribbon Cutting…

…the row of three Photinia in Ririei Opening and the one by Georges Hut. The first in the row (and fully evergreen) is very probably Photinia prunifolia. The other three…

…point The centre of the stand is nearing completion and looks fantastic with the iron fence. centre of the stand centre of the stand The electrics for the fountain conk…

…the wartime evacuees here then. Today the carvings have been more or less obscured by the growth of the tree. Huge beech tree Rhododendron ‘Anne Teese’ just coming out. Rhododendron…

…large and these have hybridised with cultivated violas. These used to grow at The Vean before reconstruction and the Top Lodge before tarmac covered them. They were proper Irish ‘gypsy’…

…or been able to because of the jobs they do (many of our staff of course cannot and are in the tourist/hospitality/visitor side of the businesses here). The unfairness to…

…the media and nation came to the fore with the public purse. Now (as then) our only ‘entitlement’ is the right to health (in isolation) and not (yet) the right…

…government. The fact that they have, in the main, been doing nothing for weeks on full pay and are entirely happy with the status quo is the reality. No 80%…

…the lawn a mass of orange-red flowers. Chaenomeles Chaenomeles The mini digger has cleared and levelled the path on Sinogrande Walk. path on Sinogrande Walk The mini digger tackles the…