A beautiful carp

Saw this happy chap up at the lake yesterday, just in time to snap the carp he had caught.  Not seeing the forecast,any of the fishermen were dressed in long trousers but ended up sat in a sunny bank.  They weren't moaning!  

Good day for fish

Glowing teasels.

Tess, our elderly dog still makes it round

After taking a sunny walk along the top of the wood I chatted to this guy and his brother at the lake.  Sat in the sun, catching many fish, with one eye on the large carp mooching in the weeds, they were both sorted for the day.  Perfect!

Blooming Bath

Bath Asparagus.  How blessed we are here in the West Country to have such a locally abundant herb (yet globally extremely rare plant) grow in the hedgerows around Bath, verges of roads and in Farleigh Wood?

As with many things in seeming abundance, I had not paid much attention to these spikes of buttery stars before seeing one growing at the bottom of our garden here at Wood Cottage.  Further investigation showed how rare on a world scale this plant actually is and so it is with a ridiculous level of excitement that I see them every June, and thank my lucky Bath Asparagus stars that they sprout with such vigour.