April – Garden notes
This is the true start to the growing season, soil temperatures should getting warmer (although clay soils are always colder and slower), the birds will be nesting, the bees out foraging, seeds germinating, the grass growing, flowers delighting – everything and everywhere is springing into life (including the slugs, caterpillars and weeds).
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After five years of hard work, much merriment and lots of cream cakes, John & Annie Deeley, the owners of the award winning ‘Annie’s Tea Rooms, Garden & Gallery,’ in Godney near Wells, have, somewhat reluctantly, decided to hang up the proverbial ’spotty pinny’ for the last time
Welcome music fans to my second interview, this time with local music legends Ben Kench and Jon Boyle from the fantastic Beatles tribute band, Moondogs
It’s that time of year isn’t it? We’ve had the snow, biting winds, and a tsunami of rain all of which have conspired to prevent us attending our favourite place of worship and to start paying homage to a dimpled white ball and the varying directions it flies off in. Some of you will have been further hampered by the fear of having to wear “fashionable golfing items” that our loved ones so thoughtfully gifted us in December!!
Hardy annuals are my nominated ‘plant of the month’, choose Phacelia tanacetifolia, Silene dioica (Red Campion) or Agrostemma githago (Corn cockle) for informal areas, the later two being native wildflowers. I have found all three of these to be resistant to rabbit damage, and between them create a fantastic display of flowers most of the summer.
Baby I love you! As the song goes. Now this car is a baby, the baby BMW 120D SE .
In shiny bright silver ,with alloy wheels ,6 gears,5 doors ,climate control, parking sensors and seats that adjust so far back that even my large frame could hardly reach the wheel or pedals, a first.!
If you thought a sore earole was bad, you should try a sore eye.
I was chasing a really fast rabbit. It weaved in and out of gorse and bramble bushes; I was so close to it. I was a real hunting dog and I was going to catch my first rabbit. I even managed the tight turns without skidding. The rabbit ran into a particular thick patch of bramble. Being a brave hunter, I followed. I felt a pain in my eye and then I couldn’t see properly. My eye was very very sore.
My people took me home as fast as possible. I couldn’t open my eye and I was a very sad and sore boy. I had to go to Mr Vet again;
Buy none, get 20 free – not the kind of offer to turn down in these belt-tightening days. In this case, the 20 free items refers to the number of books a library member can borrow from any of the 34 libraries and 6 mobile libraries in Somerset.
There are several exciting things happening at Wells and Mendip Museum within the next few weeks.
If your children are getting on top of you and are wondering what to do with them this half term then get them to ‘Hunt for Pirate Treasure’ at the Fleet Air Arm Museum from Monday 15th to Friday 19th February. Children and grown-ups are encouraged to come in fancy dress and speak like pirates.