The end of February: the time I’ve always noticed the most the days lengthening out, the afternoon daylight encroaching into evening. Hurrah for that. I try to like winter, but I don’t. I loathe it. The cold, the dark, the…
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Yes, I do have a photo of a daffodil flowering in January. Cut from the garden on 31 December 2015, and pictured here in bloom in its vase. Narcissus ‘Cragford’ I think. I’ve known roses to be in bloom…
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In a dusty old folder I found this print-out of an email from 15 years ago, when I first submitted this website’s URL to the Yahoo! search engine. I thought I’d share this historic document, in case it’s of…
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At this time in 2001, a full fifteen years back in the misty and distant past, I was getting a website ready for launching onto the new and really exciting platform of the worldwide web. I invested weeks of…
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