Delayed by the snow and rain , the Hellebores are finally looking beautiful …
7th March 2010 #1
7th March 2010 #2
Meanwhile, elsewhere in the garden, there are more signs that Spring is with us. The Robinia will soon be glowing with it’s bright red leaves …
7th March 2010 #3
… and the Clematis armandii will be in bloom.
7th March 2010 #4
Today was a DIY day. Jobs that had been put off for long enough were finally completed.
6th March 2010
The day was spent not at work but on a training course learning to be a School Governor. Not much of interest to photograph there. On return home, the wife had received a couple of baking tins in the post. ‘So what?’, you ask. Well she doesn’t know why she received them. We didn’t order them, there’s no note in parcel to explain who they’re from. No indication at all. They’re very nice, we’re very grateful. We just want to know where they came from. And why…
5th March 2010
The cabbages have grown a lot but with this cold weather, frost and cold wind I don’t know if they will ever be anything left of them to eat. Tried wrapping them in nice cosy cloches but the wind just blew them off. I gave up putting it back. The cloche in background has broccoli in it but that doesn’t look much healthier for the shelter.
4th March 2010
With no urgent design work to do this evening and the TV being actually “not too bad”, I decided to start think about doing the same painting. Or at least plan a painting. Here’s the blank canvas that faces me.
3rd March 2010
Yesterday, being the 1st March, was for many the people the first day of Spring and newspaper reports claimed that for the first time in 15-20 years, while many people are claiming Spring has arrived late this year because of the long, cold and depressing winter, the season has actually arrived on time. And bang on cue, daffodils started breaking thorugh the earth and these ones in a pot in the garden, even dared to burst open.
2nd March 2010
Started reading this book on holiday last week and just about to finish it. It’s a great little read – a bit scientific in places but generally easy to read. Not anoracky at all. Who’d have thought there was so much to learn about clouds and all the different types. Most interesting fact was about Lt.Col. William Rankin of the US Airforce who, in 1959, survived after ejecting from his fighter jet at 47,000 over the top of a Cumulonimbus – “the king of clouds”. Rankin survived, freezing temepratures, hail, wind, thunder and lightning as he fell through the cloud but it took him a full forty minutes before he landed. Difficult to imagine how horrific that ordeal must have been.
1st March 2010
The forecasters had predicted a very wet and windy day for today but it didn’t seem to materialise like we expected. Yes it was drizzly and there was a breeze but not bad and, by the end of the afternoon, the sun had broken through and the clouds had cleared. As night fell, the sky was very clear and the full moon lit up the garden – here it is.
28th February 2010
Hooray! Crocuses in flower – is Spring finally here? Er, probably not – if the weather forecast for tomorrow is correct they’ll all be flattened by Monday.
27th February 2010
Today was the day I started to read my book on the Joomla Content Management System. I feel I need to learn how to build a site using a proper CMS and this book happened to be cheap in Border’s closing down sale. I got as far as page 1 … I don’t understand any of it. The other book is about Music Graphics because I was looking for ideas for a CD sleeve I’ve to design – a few very rough ideas are shown scribbled here too.
26th February 2010
2010 - A year in pictures and words 