At last today tempted out the Brimstone butterflies...we had seen the other hibernating types but I reckon the Brimstone was having an extra lie in... Also 3 Red Kites up on high. They are now an almost daily sighting or at least several times weekly but 3 in one bit of sky is a new one in these par...

I too was having the first wrestle of the year with 'the big mower' . Grass was plenty long for it but it will come right on the next mow. It was one of those days, at last when wanted to be everywhere as suddenly jobs were opening up able to be done...can only do one at once though. Meanwhile, for ...

Clear sky again now.. just stepped out the back door to go to the bins and there was the space station going by high above... Double checked and the time tallied....actually high above France by the track map..

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Didn't escape the wet here....sharp squally sleet shower has just been rattling on the windows..

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Just finished pruning my gooseberry bushes...job started Christmas time.! Then took the posts and string from round last years bean row location....bit behind on that too..!! ...and then set into some more of the errant leap frog brambles in the old chicken run area. It's looking darker now with an ...

Tally with the chill sharp breeze...it's actually been slightly up on forecast here this morning. There was white frost on the grass at work early but at home here only a thin freeze on the windscreen that occurred after I swished the wipers across. Early lunch and then see if I can get a little job...

Cold start to today with de-icer needed on the car windscreen and an amazing fern pattern of frost on the car roof. It was annual car cleaning day today....actually I think it might have had another one earlier this year...new dust bag in the Miele vacuum. Late this afternoon there was a chance to g...

I tally with lots of twiggy bits....

We had 6mm rain overnight and it has remained rather blowy all today

...and as I drove home there was some dark cloud that looked ready to send down some hail..

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What a difference a dry breezy night has made... This morning I very quickly dragged over some Christmas dug ground in the back garden with the largest size Wolf 3 tine cultivator and have pushed in 5 rows of Turbo onion sets , mostly 22 in a row. About 6" along the row and about 16" betwe...

I got the aforementioned Shallots, Red Sun x 80 pushed in today... Then it came to my attention that a day of rather high winds for Thursday is billed...followed by a load of rain...and then 4hrs at 1C into Saturday.. Lovely still and mild out just now, 9.5C, and as clear as a bell. I had a bit of s...

Strange one this morning the big spots of rain stopped half way to work...and it's only 5 miles. No rain there but a colleague had come in over the Wolds and had heavy rain in foggy mist. It's going down misty here this evening. Whilst crops are looking good in the fields...there's some pressed in m...

Might have got away with the rain yesterday...but some has now been inserted into this mornings forecast ...and is indeed here..thankfully looking light and just a damping.

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The rain did thankfully run out, despite being in the forecast for yesterday evening..it looked like it headed for the North sea via the Wash and the paths were dry when I stepped outside this morning. Great plans to put in some shallots failed though as I have a silly twingy back that came on yeste...

Tally with the lovely sunny day yesterday. I was working on a south facing border with wall behind, really quite warm.... Today, made sure there was a wall behind once again...this time to cut out the northerly cold breeze... Hoping that the rain runs out before it gets to here..it is listed on the ...

I certainly shed the woolly hat today...warm in the sunshine. Loads of bumblebees about and huge number of ladybirds appearing atop clumps of plants that have provided them shelter. Cool this morning though. 5C upon leaving home, down to 3.5C passing the work gates and 2.5C in fog/mist a mile or two...