Category Archives: Summer

Damp Summer…

Posted on July 11, 2024 by Guthlac

Remember the year when Summer never really started? Instead all we experienced was a series of damp days with the occasional sunny day scattered randomly amongst them. No? well perhaps I’m a bit older than you. Or perhaps it is … Continue reading →

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When you get to where you want to go…

Posted on July 6, 2024 by Guthlac

So it is election day, you’ve cast your vote, what do you do then? The answer to that is as varied as the number of people who bothered to vote. For me it was a steady trundle up the M1 … Continue reading →

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Wildflowers…

Posted on July 5, 2024 by Guthlac

The new wildflower garden is starting show some signs of promise.

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Declining Power…

Posted on June 26, 2024 by Guthlac

I could have called this post Continuity and Change but I didn’t. Instead, having slowly baked in the warm Suffolk sun, I’m really not a sun person, I went with this title. It is also apt for the election as … Continue reading →

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On this day…

Posted on June 22, 2024 by Guthlac

Back to the balmy days of 2022. If my memory serves me well I believe that COVID was still a real big thing – my brush with it, that I know of, didn’t happen for another few months. However, we … Continue reading →

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Ever Decreasing Circles…

Posted on June 21, 2024 by Guthlac

What? This can’t be true! A nice summer’s day in this miserable June. Well yes it can be true and it was the perfect day to slowly criss cross rural east Leicestershire. The election seemed in another world and there … Continue reading →

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Dawn…

Posted on June 13, 2024 by Guthlac

There is something a little bit special about dawn in the summer. At this time of year it is around 04:00hrs and when the sun comes out there is a stillness. Of course this being 2024 dawn was accompanied by … Continue reading →

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Woman’s Work…

Posted on June 7, 2024 by Guthlac

Who’d be Penny Mordant this evening? The Prime Minister we never had? (not sure about that – ed). Tonight she faces Nigel Farage and Angela Rayner in the latest election debate after receiving the hospital pass of hospital passes by … Continue reading →

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Never Reaching the End…

Posted on June 7, 2024 by Guthlac

Another Day Another Anticlimax. The election grumbles on with the Tory share of the vote slowly descending towards, under our voting system, that could be a major extinction event for them. Will it happen? Who knows but as every day … Continue reading →

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Only 4 1/2 weeks to go…

Posted on June 2, 2024 by Guthlac

One of the few funny things about this election is watching the slight panic in the voices of politico journalists as they come to realise that this is it. The election is not, at the moment, really changing anything. The … Continue reading →

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