26th April

…at least business wise, be released from the worst of lockdown by the end of next week. Not the moment for a piss-up to celebrate but common sense, and work,…

27th April

…let you take the cups home so you are left with only a photograph of the moment. At least they pay for the engraving I suppose and the insurance! Jim…

12th May

…out.So a gentle push to normality without a stampede for the moment. Boris clearly hopes that with common sense and ‘awareness’ we can gradually recover the will to live and…

15th April

…the BBC for the moment as their worm has turned on their line now (a rather popular one here) is that we should go back to work; or some of…

27th September

…but the plants are all, for the moment, surrounded by wire netting to keep deer and rabbits away as well as pheasants. So far no trouble! 2019 – CHW First…

16th May

…There was something rather pungent in the cold store left by the keepers so we have left the flowers outside the store for the moment. Caerhays cut stuff This dwarfish…

19th April

…has had a dose of this will be a certain BREXIT and I will have a drink to that. There is a moment when Brussels ‘Danegeld’ becomes an unnecessary evil….

12th March

…and one of our (rather few) visitors remarked in a Covid free moment that this was clearly the reason for the spate of panic buying of soft tissue loo paper…

5th October

…the next flowers show colour today. Camellia sasanqua 2021 – CHW A colchicum in flower outside the anteroom. A brief moment before it gets eaten by the pheasant poults. colchicum…

13th March

…plant knowledge. In an idle moment I had a good look at all the genus starting with the letter ‘A’ on Trees & Shrubs Online. The genuses that I have…