Overstrand LifeJun 25, 20201 min readWednesday 24th June 2020 - Two Men in a Boat and GloriousThis is going to be a quick blog, starting with seeing Fisherman Andy and his nephew Josh, coming back after a spell at sea crabbing. A...
Overstrand LifeJun 21, 20202 min readSaturday 20th June 2020 - Slowing Down and Longest Day x 3Barney has never been a great one for walking in warm weather and now he’s 65 in human years, lesser so. (The old way of calculating a...
Overstrand LifeJun 17, 20202 min readTuesday 16th June 2020 - Who Cares?Nobody likes to be told what to do or having a government with a dictatorial big brother attitude but there are times when we really...
Overstrand LifeJun 13, 20202 min readFriday 12th June - Keep Wishing, Flaming June and Unenviable PositionWe are still wishing for some serious warmth. Very pleasant on Tuesday, resulting in lots getting done in the garden but since then; not...
Overstrand LifeJun 9, 20202 min readMonday 8th June 2020 - Be Careful What You Wish For and What Do You Do?Following a warm dry May, gardeners were wishing for rain. What nobody wished for was what we actually got! Starting on Friday and...
Overstrand LifeJun 5, 20203 min readThursday 4th June 2020 - The Noshers, Scaredy Cat and are they The Last Hunters?I have a term for the creatures which attack our plants - noshers. When we see damaged plants, for the most part we know who the culprits...
Overstrand LifeJun 1, 20203 min readSunday 31st May 2020 - First You See Them, Solitude and Have I Missed Anything?After the barricades across the entrance to the car park were thrown over the cliff for the second time, along with the original gate,...
Overstrand LifeMay 28, 20203 min readWednesday 27th May 2020 - Where Are They?The first time I said, ‘Where are they?’ I was referring to the swifts. This comment was prompted by seeing only one swift dipping and...