I have been at Calke Abbey in Leicestershire on a National Trust working holiday.
1. St Pancras Station with its smokey blue metalwork and glass through which a clear sky shines.
2. Coming to a place in the dark and catching glimpses of a long avenue, a huge house and a red-brick farm.
3. Meringue nests with cream and raspberries.
Glossy pictures, buds and sci fi.
1. Flipping through my library book to check the glossy picture section in the middle. 2. I bend right down and check the green spikes so I ...
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1. An enormous fat bumble bee at work. She is so bulky that she can knock dead blossoms out of the way as she gets right in to the new jasmi...
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1. The shortest night and the longest day. I was up at Wellington Rocks with Anna, Paul and Jason. We couldn't see the sun through the m...
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1. I promised myself I wouldn't moan and grumble about it -- but I do. And as if by magic, a very kind friend produces the required blaz...