During June, we carried out our now annual ash dieback surveys across the property. The survey is done at this time of year as the trees should be in full leaf. Areas...
Songbirds by Christy Lefteri Published in paperback by Manilla Press Written by the author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo and influenced by the disappearance of five migrant domestic workers and two of their...
While Paris Slept by Ruth Druart Published by Headline Review, 2022 It’s Paris, 1944; Jean-Luc and Charlotte meet and fall in love. Fast forward to 1950s California, they are happily married and raising their son. Then comes a...
This past month I finished taking off my summer supers of honey, ready for extraction as you saw last month and the month before. When a super is removed from the hive,...
by Liam Mulvin – 13 September 2022 Like all of us last Thursday, I awoke in the morning with no inclination of the devastating news we would all hear before the day...
What a legend, what an achievement, one of our local Posties Liam Mulvin has reached his 50th Anniversary working for Royal Mail. Joining Royal Mail back in October 1972 as a young...
September and the autumn months are a great time to get out and look for some really interesting fungi. We are lucky enough to have some great sites right on our doorstep.Waxcaps...