Fortnum and Mason are less than ideal candidates for my photography improvements. They jiggle and fiddle too much to allow me to concentrate on twiddling dials and pressing buttons that I don’t know yet how to fully operate. Still, they’re all... I never tire of the view down the valley to tunnel gully. In truth I spend quite a lot of time looking at this. Either through the kitchen window. Or the bedroom window. Or best of all on a balmy summer evening from the veranda with a glass of New Zealand... I was doing the washing up last night and looked up and this is what I saw. The colours were as vivid as this picture – and no photoshop required. No indeedee when you have a new super duper camera you can go au naturale. There have been some fantastic... See this, it was almost weeded out today. It might look a bit like a weed but it is in fact a lone fennel seedling spring from the ground. This is one of the seeds I planted – out of a packet there are only about 5 little seedlings like this. Boy the perils... It’s all go in our fledgling orchard. The trees are growing having blossomed and are now enjoying a spot of sun. I was pretty flabbergasted to notice today that one of our trees has actually born fruit. Yes, that’s what suposed to happen in an... 