Category Archives: Summer

Waiting for a taxi in Brexit Britain

14 Friday Jun 2019

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Photo by Husband of Candia – under strict instruction.

At present it really is raining cats and dogs, stair rods or

whatever non-EU idiom you care to employ.

The automobile is finished.  For those who can’t afford

a carriage, they’ll just have ‘to look sweet on a bicycle

built for two.’

Metroland becomes Retroland.

Cuckooflower (Cardamine pratensis)

27 Monday May 2019

Posted by in Environment, gardens, Nature, Nostalgia, Personal, Photography, Summer

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growing happily in our garden.  Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Had to look it up.  Apparently the caterpillars of the Orange Tip butterfly

love its leaves and the leaves can be a substitute for watecress.

Also known as Lady’s Smock.