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Spring Cottage
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After a life spent living in the big city, I moved part-time to a little corner of England called the Quantock Hills in 2009. My blog started as a personal diary about this new part of my life as I learn about country things – and then there are some things I just don't learn. It's everyday and sometimes it's a bit more profound. Now I've gone public and I'm still not quite sure why but it's quite addictive. Come and visit!
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Just a field

Across the road, there’s a field. It looks like it’s just got grass and buttercups in it. Until you start looking… and then I found I couldn’t stop looking, even at things I d...

2 days ago

Wear and tear

When you’ve lived somewhere for a while, it gets boringly necessary to pay money just to maintain the status quo. There’s no sense of satisfaction; it’s just dull. So it was with my...

4 days ago

Last rays

Sometimes the sun’s last rays of the day are the best of all. Tagged: country, evening, moon, photography, summer, UK

5 days ago

A place of a few distractions

Working from home this week, I find I’m massively distracted by the sudden, fine weather. It’s mighty cool in the living room, as the walls of the cottage are 18 inches thick but upstairs...

22 may 12

Summertime?

Driving down the M4 today, in Wiltshire, I had the suddent feeling of passing through an invisible curtain, leaving behind a cold, grey Spring day and passing into Summer. When we arrived, the cats w...

21 may 12

Something I set my sights on

Just wanted to complete the record on my laser eye surgery, which was a little off-topic aside I indulged in here and here and here and here (sorry) almost six months ago. It went well and improved m...

19 may 12

Inside and out

My little kitchen in the hills, with views into the back garden and across the fields to the hills. Nothing special. A bit messy but bright and cheerful. It’s full of bright and garish colours,...

16 may 12

Did you say allsorts?

I realised that I’d done this more than once last weekend: bluebells and tulips with fennel. Sounds more like a recipe. Tagged: flowers, Spring

15 may 12

It takes all sorts

And I’m the sort who mixes lily of the valley and chives in a vase.

14 may 12

Gain and pain: a typical country weekend

At long last the weather was fine and springlike this weekend, after about five weeks of grey skies and rain. Saturday I dropped by Nether Stowey car boot sale this morning – the first of the season ...

13 may 12

Quiet industry indoors, while outside blusters

Gloomy and wet. The lane rainwater-full. Gales blow. Garden chairs crash and windows leak. Floors washed, paperwork done, holes drilled and pictures hung. Even washing machine plumbing, long standing...

30 apr 12

Joining in

Casting my mind back to this time last year, the UK was gripped with royal wedding fever and a heatwave. Today dawned grey, miserable and windy, with a fog so thick, early on, that I couldn’t c...

28 apr 12

Will’s Neck

I had the Boy staying this weekend. He makes me go for proper walks, which is something that I don’t do much on my own. So, with rain clouds gathering, we headed off to Triscombe, where usually...

18 apr 12

Where do you get the energy?

Well, around here, it comes in a huge tanker that blocks the lane while the oil tank is filled. Having lived all my life in a city, where the most involvement you have with your energy supply is lett...

14 apr 12

Perhaps

Found wedding ring on Bloomsbury Way, London. Inscription: Andres y Elizabeth 16. 07. 2011. Help me find the owner!! Please re-tweet— Damian Horner (@Damianhorner) January 24, 2012 This post on...

13 apr 12

I’m here

Just after nine in the morning. I’ve already walked across the park, had breakfast and coffee. No work until tomorrow. I say goodbye to the Girl today. When I next see her, she will have finish...

10 apr 12

Narcissism

One of the lovely things about the garden is the sheer variety of daffodil-like flowers that appear during the spring. I think there are about ten varieties of narcissi out there. I don’t know ...

09 apr 12

About Easter and nothing much

Strange time of year, Easter. Not as celebratory as Christmas, yet it’s quiet and it feels like everyone’s away. The days are transformed by the bank holiday and confusion sets in. Oh, th...

06 apr 12

Blue Anchor

At the weekend, I made a 40-minute trip up the coast and met up with Rachel and her lovely, bouncy dog Flossie at Blue Anchor. We’ve been following each other’s blogs for a while and last...

04 apr 12

This year, last year, &c.

Well, so much for this year being so warm. It turns out that last year, the garden was far more advanced than it is this year, despite this year’s sunny spring. However, in 2010, there were bar...

01 apr 12

My day: I like, I like…

Today has been the best day. Sunny all day and warm in the sun, although the air’s still March-cold. Boring things were ticked off my To Do list: boiler service and chimney survey. I spent most...

30 mar 12

The Manners Manifesto 2012

Reblogged from Never Knowingly Underwhelmed: It was new year, 2008. I felt it was time to “solve the problems of the world before it’s too late.” I know, a lofty ambition. But IR...

26 mar 12

The boring everyday

I seem to have lost the power of words. In my third year at Spring Cottage, I’m finding that I want to post images rather than write anything. So here are a couple of things I snapped last week...

24 mar 12

Dyrham Park trees

Sometimes you see something just have to photograph. Sometimes over and over again. I just couldn’t decide which of these pictures I liked best. There was just something about the light and the...

20 mar 12

Outside my comfort zone: more vernacular architecture

I have two friends who live near Bath and for the last three years, since I’ve been travelling back and forth from London to Somerset, I’ve intended to visit them. This has proved easier...

18 mar 12

Old houses, new times

I’m sitting here with a headache today, finding it very hard to motivate myself to do anything active. So I’ve been looking at some old photographs taken in Nether Stowey, which has some ...

09 mar 12

Smells and deer

There has been quite a strong smell hanging over Spring Cottage this weekend. It hit me as soon as I stepped out of the car. I looked into the field at the back of the house and, sure enough, it had ...

04 mar 12

Are we nearly there yet?

Spring is definitely in the air but here in the hills at over 600 metres above sea level, there are only some very small signs. And a very few tiny flowers. The snowdrops ares still the most obvious ...

03 mar 12

Charity fun ride to aid air ambulance service

  Tagged: air ambulance, charity, emergency services, Equestrian, helicopter, riding

01 mar 12

Smelling spring in the city

If you can be distracted from the wondrous moon lying back kicking its feet in the air while it relaxes with Jupiter and Venus, you can scent Spring in the air in the evening. Bulbs are bursting fort...

26 feb 12

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