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First it was the shower - long overdue and everyone seems very pleased with our new one for 2016.  Then it was the tumble drier and now a new fridge. The fridge freezer in the cottage, although functioning perfectly is now 10 years old and I am nervous that a 10 year old electrical item might suddenly let us down.  I totally fell in love with a blue retro one which exactly matches the blue of the ...

I happened to be walking by the church today with my camera in hand as it was a beautiful sunny/cloudy Spring day and I thought I should catch Ilmington in a few photographs.  Quite by chance the church clock was showing significant time and it put me in mind of the Rupert Brooke's poem...  (If you can't see the time it is 10 to 3) I passed by the War memorial sited on the Upper Green overlooking...

The temperature has plunged in the last few days but what better walking weather?! It is crisp and sunny with a few clouds.  These photos were taken on another circular walk which took me past the highest point in Warwickshire at the top of the Ilmington Downs. This is 261 metres or 856 feet above sea level - OK not so high if you come from the Swiss Alps but high for us!  You can see Edgehill, si...

The weather has been very changeable in the first week of January - from mild to chilly. Sunshine to showers.  Fortunately, we have avoided flooding in this neck of the woods, unlike our friends in the North.  Although, I have on one or two days felt the need for gloves, we haven't yet had a PROPER winter in terms of temperatures and some of the flowers seem very confused. The photographs followin...

We have a lot of lavender in the house garden and usually a big pot of it on the cottage garden patio and I have been a bit tardy about pruning.  Normally one is advised not to prune right back into old wood but the lavender in the courtyard has got a bit wild and big, so much so that the cars driving to our house and cottage have the driving space considerably narrowed.  It does produce a lovely ...
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