29/04/2016 The day just disappeared with nothing much to show for it, N did though cut all the lawn edges. A few random emergency shots in the garden..

Maximum temperature  15C, minimum  1C.    20 km/h NW winds. Dry. Frost this morning.

Common lizard.

Bee on the rosemary shrub.

Bluebells.

Camellia.

Greenfinch.

Irises.

Snowball bush, Viburnum opulus. These will double in size and turn white in a week or so.

Wild violets.

Choisya ternata,

Our cabbages are starting to look good enough to eat soon :-)

11/03/2016 A few photos left from yesterday and we have been cutting wood from our pile to stack in the dry. Hopefully we will not need much more this winter.

Maximum temperature 12C, minimum -1C.  29 km/h N wind. Dry.

Goldfinch.

Cabbage gone to flower.

Mum and calf.

Derelict.

Grapes.

Chateau.

Woodpile - not ours!

Getting ready to start cutting.

Fungi growing on some wood.

as above.

A shield bug.

21/02/2016 A walk around a very wet garden.

Maximum temperature 14C, minimum 7C.  34 km/h SW wind.  2 mm rain measured.

Cranes flying over - still quite far away.

Chaffinch male.

As above.

Raindrop.

Wet cabbage....

More raindrops!

Snowdrops.

Pyrrhocoris apterus - Le Gendarme beetle.

A fly - they have never gone away this winter!!

17/02/16 A walk around the frosty garden.

Maximum temperature 8C, minimum -3C,  17 km/h SE wind. Dry.

A frosty start to the day.

Mrs Sparrow....

Morning stretching exercises...

Mr Sparrow...

and Mrs checking the sky for birds of prey.

Snowdrop.

Japanese quince.

Red Robin in bud.

One lone crocus struggling with the cold....

and a lone daffodil.

Daisies in the lawn.

The start of flowers on the broad beans,

Garlic.

Leeks.

Cabbage.

31/14/2014 Another day in the garden!

Maximum temperature 24C.