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Bill spent three days at Brockley in mid-April
64 images  2. Fritillaries (fritillary means spotted), which were in bloom at Brockley  3. Bluebells under beech trees  4.  5. Fox gloves  6. A flock of starlings  7. beach scene  8. Field of lavender  9.  10. Brockley management team. A long list of visitors have queued for the summer.  11. Narcissus Thalia, blooming beside the pond  12. It has been a late spring, by several weeks  13. Onyx with bone  14. view across the garden to the Manor Farm  15. garden shed  16.  17. Brockley Elm (left) & Brockley Elm Farm  18. chief weeder at work  19.  19a. the fruits of her labors  20. The rooster has plenty to crow about, and does  21. One of Ant's (and possibly the rooster's) favorite chickens (a marin) died on Sunday, evidently of old age. It laid beautiful brown eggs  22. in the greenhouse  23.  24. the orchard, with soey sheep and one of two young cows  25. apple tree with mistletoe  26. the Bay of Biscay. It will be hayed in July  27. some of Rupert & Blanche's sheep  28. The two calves, which have to be moved to the Six Acres  29. tulips  31. feeding nuts to the sheep  32.  33.  34.  35. There were five lambs when I arrived on Thursday, four on Saturday (one lost to a fox?) and six (a second set of twins born) on Sunday, illustrating the ebb and flow of life at Brockley  36. Bob Meech came to dinner on Saturday  37. Sim came over, as did Violet.  38.  39.  40. morning view  41.  42. two cows in the Six Acres, quite tame  43. Ant and Bill moved that cage (to keep birds out of the cabbage patch) on Friday  44.  45. tea in Tineke's Garden  46. soey  47. Violet's birthday dinner, with three of her friends/colleagues  48. Pheobe  49. Onyx  50. opening presents  51.  52. Ant and brother/neighbor Rupert. Rupert and Blanche came by for coffee on Saturday  53. the lane. The wild garlic was just starting to bloom  54. cow hands, after moving the two young calves from the Secret Orchard to the Six Acres  55. Julian & Antony in Julian & LIza's glass sitting room  56. Bill & Liza  57. On Sunday, we raked hay and cow poop in the Secret Orchard  58.  59.  60. Sunday evening we drove over the Clifton Bridge (the first suspension bridge, I think, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel)  61. the Clifton Observatory from the suspension bridge. We lived in Clifton for 10 weeks the summer of 1984.  62. Sunday evening, arriving for the concert at Clifton College  63.  64. Ant's father attended school here in the 1920s (the school was founded in 1862). Eight students (13-18 years) soloed (violin, cello, vocal, piano) with orchestral accompaniment.  |