Tony's Blog

I regard Westhorpe Lane as the most attractive area in Byfield and I suspect that many of the villagers would agree with me.  Once a separat...

Lovely racemes of Mahonia greeted me as I parked up at Byfield Village Hall. There are about 70 members of the genus found in North and Sout...

Following my last visit to Foxhill Farm I found that my list of invertebrates recorded there totalled 499. There was no way that I could lea...

Early November has been exceptionally wet and when I visited Foxhill Farm about three days ago much of the ground was saturated. Since then ...

Dean (our son-in-law) has been in hospital today and Jacqui has been on a course and so Chris and I have looking after their dog . No prob...

My forays into the blogosphere have, of late, been few and far between. I have found a foolproof way of guaranteeing rain: make plans for a ...

Well, perhaps that's overstating it a bit, but it has been a dull, dank and dreary day - and cold too. Nevertheless, I could not leave c...