Slime mould Sunday - Comatricha nigra in various states of maturity. Taken November 2025 both weird, wonderful and absolutely tiny.
#slime #slimemold #stroud #cotswolds
View along grass path between borders filled with red tulips to a Cotswold stone house.
Early spring flowers and lovely views are on offer when the gardens at Kemble House open on Tuesday April 14.
This landscaped garden near Cirencester has a walled garden, herbaceous borders and fine trees.
Open 2-5pm, entry £7.50. Details: buff.ly/2a0NN48
#cotswolds #OpenGarden
The end of a grand ruined house. Slightly beyond a lovely village church
This is more like it. #cotswolds
Cathedral views and monthly dues. Living in Gloucester. ⛪ #Gloucester #Cotswolds #Budgeting #MoneyTalk #UKRent
A busy week ahead with several beautiful gardens for you to explore.
April 14 - Kemble House
April 15 - Daylesford House and Lords of the Manor Hotel
Friday 17 - Sudeley Castle Gardens
April 19 - Upton Wold
Details on the website: www.ngs.org.uk
#OpenGardens #Gloucestershire #Cotswolds
There's a new guy on the Go Cotswolds scene, and today it's his big 4-0! Introducing our new guide Peter Vlahos - HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! We can't wait for you to join him on a tour very soon!
#happybirthday #big40 #newguide #gocotswolds #cotswolds #cotswoldstourguide
Happy Friday everyone. Glorious tulips at Bourton House Garden.
#gardens #gardening #cotswolds #bloomscrolling
OTD 31yrs ago, our offer to buy 65ac in #Oxfordshire was accepted. It was the beginning of a long-held dream, my partner telling his grandmother when he was four that he wanted to be a farmer. What follows is told in 'This Is Not My Land: 30 Years on a Small #Cotswolds Farm'. #naturewriting
The front covers of Amateur Gardening and Garden News.
Part of feature on lavender with pictures of lavender flowers.
Part of feature on a garden with a picture of outdoor table.
Delighted to have two very different articles published this week
In Amateur Gardening, I’m getting growing tips from Norfolk Lavender.
In Garden News, I’m discovering how a Gloucestershire garden is a sanctuary. It opens for @glosngs.bsky.social
@ngsopengardens.bsky.social
#gardening #cotswolds
Viewfinder on camera showing a cream and pink tulip in grass.
Early morning photo shoot.
#photography #gardens #cotswolds
In the #Cotswolds are the quintessentially English villages known as ‘The Slaughters’ (Upper & Lower) & are exceptionally attractive. This circular walk starts at Naughton with its 16th Century dovecote & traverses pretty countryside. See www.happyhiker.co.uk/MyWalks/Cots...
#Gloucestershire
Some family portraits from this morning, it's really starting to feel like spring now.
#Photography #Rural #Cotswolds #Spring #Lambs #Farming
Pink, yellow, orange and purple tulips in grass under a tree.
A glorious jumble of colour from tulips used in containers over the years and replanted under the apple tree.
#UKGardening #tulips #gardens #cotswolds 🌱
'This Is Not My Land: 30 Years on a Small Cotswolds Farm' has found its place next to a Moomin! What a fantastic place to be. On sale at Octavia's Bookshop in #Cirencester. #Cotswolds #bookshops #naturewriting #slowtravel
I suspect there's more to come but the bluebells were already looking pretty great today.
#Photography #Woodland #LeicaLUX #Bluebells #Hiking #Cotswolds
The route I took on my walk around Minchinhampton and Rodborough common, from Minchinhampton going counter clockwise #afternoonwalk #countrywalk #Cotswolds #Strava
2/2... I walked out across the common to Rodborough Fort and back, with views of the surrounding valleys, Stroud, the river Severn, the Forest of Dean and the Welsh mountains beyond 🌞😍 #afternoonwalk #Minchinhampton #Cotswolds
Yesterday afternoon while I was in Gloucestershire I went to Minchinhampton on the Cotswolds for a walk. Met the friendly church cat and had an ice cream at Winstone's 🌞🐈🍦 #afternoonwalk #Minchinhampton #Cotswolds 1/2...
It's one of those days where you go for a walk in the woods and end up in someone's garden because all the fences are missing.
It was a nice garden though, A+, would accidentally trespass again.
#Hiking #Cotswolds
Purple anemone flower.
An old favourite for this week's Cheering Up Mondays flower. More on the blog: bit.ly/48ixjqS
#BloomScrolling #CheeringUpMondays #photography #MondayMotivation #cotswolds
Image 2/12 from my Chipping Campden architecture series.
Loving the character in these old façades — nothing here is perfectly straight, and that’s exactly the charm.
#Photography #Cotswolds #ChippingCampden #Architecture #TravelUK #DeVilliersPhotography
@rspb.bsky.social @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social Just seen a Swallow! 🤩 #SouthCerney #Cotswolds
A stone cottage or barn at night, illuminated by a warm yellow-green outdoor light that casts a glow on the building's facade and nearby trees, with a wooden five-bar gate visible in the foreground and a hazy, light-polluted sky above.
Night out on the town
#nightphotography
#nikonphotography
#cotswolds
A gorgeous female Kingfisher on my local Cotswold river. She’s in stunning condition!
#Kingfisher #Birding #Cotswolds #Oxfordshire #Nature
A Bee collecting pollen from a flower in the Cotswolds.
#Bee #Nature #Macro #Wildlife #Oxfordshire #Cotswolds
Easter bunnies in the Cotswolds
Wishing you all a Happy Easter Weekend
#Cotswolds #countryside #Easter #EasterWeekend #EasterBunnies #FridayFoto
📸 @capoxford.bsky.social
Hats off to Hatchards Cheltenham, which has five of my book titles in store, including 'Slow Travel the Cotswolds', and 'This Is Not My Land: 30 Years on a Cotswolds Farm'. Thank you so much for stocking. It means the world. A beautiful shop on The Promenade, #Cheltenham. #Cotswolds
A beautiful Cormorant on my local Cotswold river.
#Nature #Cotswolds #Birding #Oxfordshire #River #Wildlife