Blogs Posts on "Country Life"

The annual Tamar Walk , the second & third hour... by dovegreyreader scribbles on Oct 24, 2009I LOVE this day. We don't do clocks back at 3am, and waste that hour sleeping, instead I will spend a good deal of today trying to decide when to have my extra hour...then I suddenly announce 'OK it's now'...

The annual Tamar Walk...the first hour by dovegreyreader scribbles on Oct 23, 2009It took us three hours or more but I'll let you all take two days, a rest from words and space for some weekend strolling and thinking time. Last Saturday, we pitched up for the annual Tamar Walk hardly believing...

The Rake's Progress by dovegreyreader scribbles on Oct 9, 2009I really should keep you updated on Bookhound's recent estate management garden adventures because he's done a magnificent job of septic tank repair that seems to have stayed magnificent. It's almost (only almost) a joy to stand next to it...

The My Antonia Walk by dovegreyreader scribbles on Sep 23, 2009My breathing is shocking. I mean it goes in and out alright, but having just joined this community choir I really need to improve on it. It's fifteen years since I left a church choir and I haven't really sung...

The Ship of the Fens with a Canadian passenger on board by dovegreyreader scribbles on Sep 9, 2009I don't know the Fens that well, better since I've been reading Roger Deakin, but still not that well; so much so that slow-flowing rivers which deceive the eye to the point where any movement seems imperceptible come as quite...

The Staging by dovegreyreader scribbles on Sep 5, 2009So we played it canny this year. Usually Bookhound nips up to the Village Hall at 8am and gets our exhibits 'staged' (actually he's never known that that is what he's doing) but this year due to a delay in...

The Results by dovegreyreader scribbles on Sep 5, 2009The nail-biting tension finally got the better of us and we trekked up to the Village Hall at about 4pm. You sort of want to look but you don't want to, but anyway we did and it's been a year...

Jam and Jerusalem by dovegreyreader scribbles on Sep 3, 2009I'll admit to being a very recent convert to the TV programme Jam and Jerusalem, in fact just this new series and mainly because I was wedged and propped upright on the sofa, nursing the freezer blocks on my lumbar...

Bringing in the sheaves... by dovegreyreader scribbles on Aug 27, 2009...well not yet, but soon we hope because last year was a complete disaster for the harvest around here. Rain, more rain and then some extra rain meant the wheat (or might it be barley) lay ruined in the fields...

Preserved by dovegreyreader scribbles on Aug 22, 2009Casting around for something to preserve, anything really, now that I've dusted off the maslin pan (love the name) because it's a real pain to try and get it back in the cupboard, I suddenly remembered those blackberries I had...