UPDATE: 4 February 2009: I’m entering this picture into the contest with the lovely people at I heart Faces. This week they’ve opened up a pet’s category. Although I was tempted to enter one of the zillion of pictures I have of the bassets I think... It’s been hot, hot, hot this weekend. In excess of 30 degrees I reckon. Just the weather you need to tame a field. Yeah, right! Regardless of the weather we’ve a list of things to do before winter and when I look at the list and look at the weather,... It’s been a couple of weeks but the potager has come up trumps again with something else for us to eat. Can you tell what it is peaking out of the ground? Yup, that’s right, the orange of life, carrots. I was never a great lover of carrots when I was a... Having done battle with thistles for weeks and weeks and weeks it gave me an enormous amount of pleasure to spend an hour in the garden to photograph a few still remaining on the other 4 acres of land. There have been times when I have hated these pesky things but... You know that feeling when you’ve completed a job. A hard job. A job that’s been a long and hard slog. Something that’s used up lots of energy, brainpower and resources. A job that you’d wished you never started but carried on till the... 