One of the many advantages of living where I do, in Lewes, UK, is that I have open country less than a five minutes walk from my front door. The sunny February weather has been just too beautiful to…
One hundred years ago today, 24th June, 1914, a train stopped for a few minutes at a small country station in the Gloucestershire village of Adlestrop. Sitting in one of the carriages was the poet Edward Thomas (1878 – 1917).…
I took this picture of my Bramley’s Seedling apple tree just before I went off on holiday a few weeks ago feeling hopeful that my first attempt at growing an espalier fruit tree would succeed as, in its second year…
Here are some photographs that I have taken around my home town, Lewes, over the last two or three years. Lewes, in the United Kingdom, is the country town of East Sussex in South East England and has a rich…