Looking Back At My 2024.

This be blog 320.  I have never wrote so many posts in a year.  I must get back to writing my gardening book in 2025.

Any road.  Here's some photos of 2024.  Nothing is in chronicle order. 46ish photos for your perusal dear blog readers.

June 18th.  Black eye our piglet was a champion at Cork show. Our other piglets won rosettes too.

I still enjoy my saunters when the weather allows.

 

We have seven months of lit fires and dark nights to endure.  Oh to have street lights like the villages and towns and cities.  I could go far a walk.

We sampled West Cork Buffalo cheese.

I took lots of cuttings.  Like this Hydrangea.  

I repurposed lots of plastic bottles and made plant cuttings cloches.

Lots of piglets were born.

Our tables runneth over with tomatoes 🍅 that I grew from seed.

We made lots of soup.

Wetherspoons beer prices when I went to Blighty in August.

J knitted herself a lovely jumper from a massive ball of wool she bought for 3 Euros at a carboot sale.

Diesel was pleased to see me on my return.

Inspector Morse visited this Oxford pub and Thomas Hardy wrote Jude The Obscure here.

The Inklings "Bird and Baby".  Where the Inklings met.

The 'Martyr's Memorial.  Near here Thomas Cranmer and others were burned for their Protestant beliefs.

Sir Roger Bannister.

JRR Tolkein. 

CS Lewis.  He died on the same day Aldous Huxley died and JFK was assassinated and less than two weeks before I was born.

I finally visited The Kilns and the nature reserve.  I recognised scenes from Shadowlands.  I have seen it 24 times.  The Kilns was once a place for making bricks.  

Bronte and me walking a repurposed railway line in Limerick here in Ireland.  This is Barnagh tunnel.  The light automatic comes on when you venture inside.  This startled  Bronte.  It had a very eerie feeling and we looked out for ghosts.

A new pony foal.

Canal boat Banbury.

Pork pie.  Something  you don't see a lot over here.

A real pint of ale.

Rick Wakeman.

Rosie and Jim Cropredy  village.

 

Big Big Train.

Lawrence of Arabia grave.

My not very well pitched tent.

Ancient tomb in Christchurch.  Waiting since 1461 for Judgment Day.

Chris Isaak Bournemouth.  They wanted forty pounds for a tour t shirt.  A man and woman bought two.  I never bothered to purchase one.

Corfe Castle.  'Bedknobs and Broomsticks ' was filmed there.

A tourist sign in Wool.

Ancient Dorset sign.  I featured this when I last visited in 2017.

Train station cat brass plate memorials at.

Homeless in Canterbury.  I saw lots of homeless  on my Blighty visit.  Hopefully Labour will build some council houses for them.

Tangerine Dream. Electronic Prog Rock at its finest.

Curved Air.

A New Day Festival banner.  My third visit.  Great bands, two stages and set in a beautiful Kent countryside.

My repurposed second hand oil tanks now raised beds.  They cost nothing just hard labour and lots of well rotted fym. 

One of our leeks sunbathing.

These are Purple Rain 🥔.   We grew lots of Homeguard too.

The author of this blog with one of his swedes.  "It's a beauty!"

Newcy Brown in England.

Quite an eventful year.  Especially in summer. 

Happy New Year and much success with your veg and garden plants growing in 2025.