Sarah

Caravan Style Transport

Here we have a very slow form of transport for Ara’s Photo comp

This large snail was sliding across a very wt path in Blenheim Palace grounds yesterday. I believe it is an edible or Roman Snail, known as an Escargot.

Blenheim Lake

The air is warmer, the days are getting longer and at last it seems Spring is really on its way.

Here is Blenheim Lake, in all it’s sunset glory, taken this evening, about 5:20pm.

The air temperature was about 9c and it didn’t rain until we had nearly reached the gift shop, where we stopped for tea and cake!

The hellebores are flowering now, hidden in the corner, and we all walk past them, without taking them in, so this afternoon, as I often do, I picked a few, and put them into a glass bowl full of water in the sunshine.

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Snowdrops

Still the rain falls, and the rivers rise. Floodplains flood. The weather is wet and windy.
But still the snowdrops do their thing.

Rain rain go to Spain

We are lucky in comparison with so many other places in the UK, in that we don’t have flooding just where I live. But the fields and woods are saturated and squelchy underfoot.
Without much enthusiasm this morning, before the next forecast rain due in about 11 am, I pulled on my walking boots and wrapped a scarf around my neck.

I didn’t have to go far before I stuffed my gloves into the pockets of my jacket, and pulled out the camera

The old man’s beard is so noticeable at this time of the year catching whatever light there is, and shining against the drab hedgerows even on a dull day. Continue reading “Rain rain go to Spain”

Anyone for a marmalade sandwich?

The house has been smelling wonderfully of oranges over the last couple of days. Yesterday I started the marmalade, and today I finished it. Continue reading “Anyone for a marmalade sandwich?”

One frost does not make a winter….

We have had very mild weather in the UK, temperature wise, despite all the bluster and buckets of rain. So it was rather refreshing to have a beautifully frosted morning yesterday, especially as I had an old friend visiting from Melbourne. We walked around Blenheim and the years of separation slipped away. We met in 1987 while working in Mildura, Victoria for six months, and again once about 10 years ago when we stayed with him in Melbourne.

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The sea, the sea

Living in Oxfordshire as I do, I don’t often see the sea, but as it happens, here I am, up on the Wirral with a borrowed camera – and yesterday I had the opportunity to visit West Kirby where the usually calm marine lake has been spewing sea weed up onto the prom railings.

And the waves were wetting the pavement… they had closed the road. Continue reading “The sea, the sea”