...the fruits of my labour! Raspberries, a rather disappointing crop of commercial strawberries, red currents, a little taste of true wi...

Due to the vagaries of the UK postal system the review samples I should have got two weeks ago only arrived for me to pick-up this last week...

We asked the Horticulture department to line-in the boundary on the cricket field, I say 'field' over 'pitch' as the grass i...

These are currently very common on the roadside verges and in the hedgerows of this still remarkably green and relatively pleasant land. Wat...

 ...get off of my clo...er...Flower! These are probably my favourite UK beetle, there is a small one which looks just like a little app...

Although I've mostly been photographing beetles in the last few weeks, there are a few other interesting things to show over the next fe...

Which would be a good name for lipsticks of a certain shade! This little beauty is a wolf in sheep's clothing; the Red (or 'scarlet...

Not trying to score one-upmanship points against John of John's Toy Soldiers blog who had a really nice dark, blackish one visit his gar...

Bridges are good things, they ease our passage on any journey, whether to the shops or through life and carry us over obstacles; real or ima...

Except they weren't actually silly in real life were they? But this lot look really silly... ...in fact they look like they're p...

I posted these about 10 days ago and have tried to text them several times with little success, I managed to get the tag-list done about Mon...

Well, you've got your little wooden SA and SS men, the Fett Kontroller and a young Parker..." Yawol mine Dame , schnell-maken mine...

The real reason a 'toy soldier' collector starts collecting Subbuteo , is that a lot of the figures designed to add realism - as ...

As well as things like the 1936 Olympic trinket we looked at here the craft wood-carvers of Southern Germany (and Austria) had also been bu...