Life & Times

This was the highest tide we’ve experienced since we moved to Aveton Gifford in South Devon.

photo of a flooded aveton gifford

The stream is usually a few inches deep, but it was over the bridge handrails this morning.

photo of a flooded stream

iPhone 11, Lightroom app, processed in Lightroom Classic 📷

Our government and the water companies’ lack of effort and urgency about the declining state of our rivers and streams is frustrating. Our rivers are too precious for us to allow them to be polluted by human and farmyard sewage, pesticides and fertilisers.

This is a photo I took of the River …

Good days work at the allotment. We have the asparagus bed and two rows of broad beans planted. Ten bags of rubbish were taken to the tip. Loads more to do. 🌱

photo of raised beds

The sun has finally come out in Kingsbridge

We’ve got a dog that thinks he’s a cat 🐕

photo of a dog

Please support this campaign by the RSPB to ban the industrial fishing of sandeels in UK waters.

photo of a puffin with a beak full of sandeels

Our threatened seabirds need your help. The UK Government could make the game-changing decision to ban industrial sandeel fishing in English waters.  Please take action today to help make it happen. …

After a gap of six months, I’m back on micro.blog. Anything interesting happened while I’ve been away?

A New Allotment

We are very lucky to have taken over an allotment in our new village, just a few minutes walk from home.

photo of a scruffy allotment

As seen in the photos, it’s not been worked for a couple of years and is overgrown with weeds and grass.

photo of a scruffy allotment

We plan to renovate & plant half the beds this year & get the others ready …

A New Allotment

Please sign this petition to stop the body parts of lions killed in gruesome hunts from being bought and imported into the UK as hunting trophies.

photo of a shot lion

To hunt these beautiful animals for fun is inhumane and just wrong.

Read more and sign the petition

UPDATE 17/03/2023: Ban on imports of animal hunting …

My Album of the Week is And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow from Weyes Blood.

Read more on inews.co.uk. 🎶