Popping Up

Poppies popping up everywhere.

Roots Manoeuvre

Harvested a few early carrot thinnings.

Pilton Pop Festival

TV coverage of Glasto was looking a bit uninspiring for my tastes until The Prodigy and Blur turned up on Sunday. Of course, for me, most of the joy of the festival is being lost in a field discovering something for the first time, being privy to an impromptu 3 a.m. performance by an insomniac genius or contributing to or working for the festival, rather than being a punter.

It's a shame that Oxfam, Greenpeace and Water Aid didn't appear to be given a slot to spout some positive propaganda and we really should have had an in depth exploration of all the innovation that goes on, including solar and wind powered generators.

Despite knowing most of the words to Bruce Springsteen's 1980 album, The River, musically, I'd rather have been at the Sonar Festival or All Tomorrow's Parties but then again, the subtleties and textures of electronic music tend to get a bit lost when heard live in cavernous marquees and buildings.

One of the best things about this year's Glasto was that my neighbours went, leaving in their wake a wonderful tranquillity, allowing me to enjoy the butterflies, moths, damselflies and night scented stock in the garden while still being able to hear myself think.

Fruit, Flower & Veg Box

Broad Beans

Artichoke

Jam Session

Spent an hour this morning with my head in the fruit bushes before a jam session at home.

Spud We Like

First early new potatoes.

Amphibian

I was going to blog about accidentally deleting some important preference files and losing my internet connection, email, trackpad and whole set up, which required half the night to rectify, but then I thought I'd post a photo of this frog, who hopped out of the strawberry bed this morning, instead.

20 20 Vision

The end of a remarkable couple of weeks for cricket lovers, culminating in Pakistan beating Sri Lanka in the final of the 2020 World Cup and the England women's team triumphing as World Champions. I can't remember a more intense period of radio cricket commentary or TV highlights and don't know how the viewing public - let alone the players - are going to cope with five day Test cricket after gorging on two matches a day for the last fortnight.

Bad Hare Day

OK, so it's probably a rabbit.

Bristol Airport EIA

Environmental Impact Assessment of Bristol Airport.

The water sounds really loud to start with, like you've flushed your head down the toilet or something, but then it gets drowned? out by the overwhelming roar of the jet. The crows appear riled, defending their territory from the great beast in the sky, as they do many times an hour. The expansion of Bristol Airport will increase the frequency of this din throughout the Mendips.

Mellow Yellow

Season's Eatings

Red Hot

Lavender Blue

Avon Calling

(If you can't hear anything, try refreshing the page)

Beenapping

In an attempt to pollinate some tomatoes which are growing in an outhouse (over the moat in the east wing) I've been beenapping. There's no point using a paintbrush because of the way that tomato flowers are formed. What they need is the resonant vibration of an insect's wings - or a specialised horticultural vibrator.

Currency

First Beet

River Tripping

Gurt lush view on the way up the Avon.



Beeses Teas - you'd think they should have one less 's' or 'e' or an apostrophe maybe, but they do have a ferry.



Cow parsley



Paddling point



Graffitti on path reads 'Boycott Bitton Station'.

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An old puffer. Coal might be crap, but you've got to appreciate the engineering innit.



No more woggles for this cub. Quite some way from the road. Didn't do a post mortem so can't say how it ended up like this.



The first time I cycled through this tunnel on the Bristol-Bath cyclepath about twenty years ago, it fair blew my mind. It didn't have any lights back then, so you really had to concentrate on the light at the end of the tunnel. Besides that nice metaphor, on a hot sunny day the experience was and still is, like cycling through a fridge.

Foxgloves

Dosage

Take three a day.



Take eight a day.

First Of June

Sweetcorn - Badger bait



Evening Primrose - Moth magnet