A bright yellow Daffodil with custard orange centre, growing in a lawn in front of a green Beech hedge and white painted building with a window below a tiled low roof that forms part of a pub. Camera: iPhone 15 Pro

Just going dark here and it must be way past time for the #DailyDaffodil. How about this stunning little bloom growing outside the village pub? Opening time for the pub but closing time for the Daffs.
#Bloomscrolling
#FlowerReport
#Nature
#ECK
#EnglishVillageLife
#PhotographersOfBluesky

In the foreground, purplish coloured Bluebells with distinctive slender bell-shaped drooping blooms grow in among weeds and brambles next to a red painted iron mail box that is mounted on a black iron pole, all pictured from a low angle. To the right, a country road is bathed in sunlight as is the green verge and trees on the opposite verge. Camera: iPhone 15 Pro

Bluebells growing in overgrown land next to a pole-mounted ER Royal Mail box by a country lane in a Surrey village.
#PostboxSaturday #Bluebells
#Spring
#EnglishVillageLife
#StreetPhotography
#PhotographersofBlueSky
#EastCoastKin

I'd really stopped to enjoy the Coddington Parish Room next to the church, with its lovely cast iron windows and red phone box, and walk to the Bronze Age burial mound in the field opposite, but the churchyard next door with its crocus carpet was irresistible.
#Englishvillagelife #England #Cheshire

The setting sun lights the clouds a fiery orange, which casts garden trees into sharp silhouette as a jet flies high above in the grey-blue twilight, leaving a white slipstream. Camera: iPhone 15 Pro

Well, we had at least eight hours of sun today and this is how it ended just now after a glorious sunrise at around 8.30am.
#Sunset
#EnglishVillageLife

I said I wasn’t going to but … couldn’t stop myself posting this to wish everyone a Happy Christmas. Spectacular sunrise as seen from our back window today.
#Sunrise #ChristmasMorning #EnglishVillageLife #Surrey
#EastCoastKin
#PhotographersOfBluesky

Redacted for Biscuits On lost pages, polite rebellions, and the mercies that smudge.

In Lower Tissington, scandal travels faster than tea cools.
One dropped page, three unsigned notes, and a biscuit tin full of plausible deniability.

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#BrittleViews #MaggieB #WryComedy #QuietRealism #EnglishVillageLife #LiteraryFiction

A Robin stands on a black plastic garden trug, its head cocked to one side. Behind, two empty orange flower pots wait to be filled.

A horserider goes past a blue parked car in the road outside our home in an English village. In the foreground a Hydrangea bush still has plenty of pink blooms. Trees on the far side of the road have some golden autumn leaves while others are already bare.

#EnglishVillageLife
Sometimes I spend too much time scrolling, watching the world go to Hell in a turbo-charged handcart and not taking time out. Today I sat in the front garden and emptied a large flower pot accompanied by an inquisitive Robin and watched a rider go past on a horse. The sun shone.

A Pardosa amentata, otherwise known as the wolf spider or spotted wolf spider, sharing a space on the light beech coloured wood bench with a couple of purple Geranium petals from the planter near the village shops.

#InsectThursday #Macro #MacroPhotography #EnglishVillageLife
#Surrey #EastCoastKin
Sitting on a bench by the shops the other day and admiring the floral display we spotted this little blighter ambling past. A Pardosa amentata, otherwise known as the wolf spider or spotted wolf spider.

This One Doesn’t Count A Maggie B. Casefile - Revisite

She wasn’t always “Maggie B.” Some stories refuse to be numbered, some moments refuse to be forgotten. 🍊
The new Casefile is live: This One Doesn’t Count.
Come for the village oddities. Stay for what lingers.

#MaggieB #ShortStory #LiteraryFiction #EnglishVillageLife

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Delighted to share this excerpt from writing friend @debbieyoung.bsky.social's contribution to 'Fate'. www.elizabethjstjohn.com/.../fateful-...
In this English village, not everybody is a saint...
#fatestories #englishvillagelife

#SundayVibes
#EnglishVillageLife
#Surrey
#ChestnutBlossom
#Birdsong
We were just admiring this chestnut tree on the morning walk when there was a sudden warbling sound that we didn’t recognise. Luckily the phone has an app. It was a Green Woodpecker. Unluckily it wasn’t visible just very audible.

#EnglishVillageLife
#Gardening
#Bloomscrolling
#Surrey
A small cottage garden overlooking the village green bursting with colour while the foreground sticks with traditional grass and dandelion mix plus the growing number of white seed heads asking what’s the time. Later than we think.

Two horses, wearing protective coats against flies, graze in a meadow beneath a hedgerow hung with white Mayblossom. Other trees rise behind the hedge on a hill and the sky above is blue with wispy cloud.

#Mayday
#Mayblossom
#Spring
#EnglishVillageLife
#Surrey
The first day of May and the hedgerows are already zinging with the white blossom of the hawthorn, which unlike the blackthorn, always arrives after the leaves and usually flowers fully this month to give it its common name.

Two horses, both wearing light coats to keep away flies, graze in a meadow in front of trees, beginning to come into leaf. The sky is almost cloudless.

#HorsesOfBluesky
#EnglishVillageLife
#Surrey
We can now walk safely across this field over the way from our home because there has been little rain for weeks and so the neighbours haven’t turned it into a muddy mess with their hooves. Today they are wearing their summer coats. No flies on them.

A garden path is flanked by two brick gateposts and around each two azalea bushes peek out to the pavement, one bright scarlet on the right, the other a more delicate pink on the left. Some steps lead up towards the house. The house name is picked out in ironwork on the left pillar, which is partly covered by light green ivy.

White crabapple blossoms stand out against a pale blue sky with some cloud on a small grass area in front of a house near the village church.

The large oak that stands in front of the village church is now covered in light green leaves. It towers over the church noticeboard, casting shadows in the morning sun. To the right, the small road is flanked by crab apple trees. The sky is light blue with wispy white clouds.

#EnglishVillageLife
#Trees
#Gardens
A short walk to the next village today as my lovely wife finds anything more than a mile overtaxing because of her Parkinson’s and acute back pain but she is determined to enjoy the Spring.

#SkyPhotography
#EnglishVillageLife
#Surrey
#Cloudscapes
Day didn’t turn out too badly after all. Cold and mostly overcast until evening and then …

White plum tree blossom stands out against a clear blue sky.

White snowdrop flowers bend their heads over light green stalks on a bank beneath a hedge.

#TreePhotography
#Bloomscrolling
#Blossom
#SignsOfSpring
#EnglishVillageLife
#Surrey
After a week of sun and warmth in our small village, Spring is getting closer. I hope it doesn’t get muted by next week’s drop in temperatures. The snowdrops are nearly over but this plum tree is spectacular.

#FlowersOnFriday
#Bloomscrolling
#EnglishVillageLife
#BroadhamGreen
#Surrey
#SignsOfSpring
Daffodils, crocuses and cowslips around the village green today.

A European robin with its distinctive red and grey breast sits on a branch among green leaves with a deep blue sky in the background.

#BirdPhotography
#Surrey
#EnglishVillageLife
#SignsOfSpring
Robin of the day is this little chap who perches on a neighbour’s tree and keeps up his trilling from dawn to way beyond dusk. On clear blue days, such as those we have been experiencing lately, it lifts the heart even in these grim times.

#Bloomscrolling
#EnglishVillageLife
#SignsOfSpring
#Snowdrops
#Crocuses
#Surrey
#HurstGreen
Another day of sparkling but shivery sunshine in our corner of south-east England has brought out carpets of Spring flowers and coaxed tulips to start emerging.

It’s that time again when motorists are warned to be careful of crossing amphibians. A small squad of volunteers in the next village also helps by transporting frogs and toads across danger spots to their breeding spot in a pond.
#Amphibians
#EnglishVillageLife
#SignsofSpring
#Surrey
#HurstGreen

#Birdsong
#EuropeanRobin
#EnglishVillageLife
#Surrey
#HurstGreen
There is always a robin at the corner of Church Way and yesterday there were several, joining in a kind of call and response chorus as we passed by in the late February sunshine. Spring must surely be around the corner. *Sound on.

A purple hellebore with yellow stamens and glistening green leaves looms over sodden white snowdrops and paler and thinner green leaves in the lee of an acer tree.

A purple hellebore flower with pale yellow stamens stands erect among green leaves in a wet garden border after heavy rains.

White and delicate pale green hellebores flowers with tiny stamens cluster around thin stalks next to a grey brick wall surrounding a pond after heavy rain.

Bright white snowdrops in among their pale green leaves recover from heavy rain in our garden border. Behind them several deep purple hellebore flowers hang their heads as if sheltering from the deluge.

#Bloomscrolling
#gardenphotography
#EnglishCottageGardens
#Surrey
#EnglishVillageLife
#Snowdrops
#Hellebores
After a day of unrelenting rain, the clouds cleared and the sun came out briefly, allowing a glimpse of the life now signalling the coming Spring and, hopefully warmth ahead.

#Photography
#EnglishVillageLife
#WinterSun
#Hats
The sun comes out but it’s still so cold. Our two straw hats wait for summer, resting on pegs in our conservatory.

#BirdsofPrey
#RedKite
#EnglishVillageLife
#Surrey

I always look up as well as down on my walks around our village. Often I spot a bird of prey swooping low, seeking prey in the fields and hedgerows. Within the past 10 years there has been a huge increase in the population of the lovely red kite.

#sunrise
#photography
#englishvillagelife
#surrey
Here comes the sun …

#englishvillagelife
A very frosty walk around our small Surrey village with the early daffodils in the private lane suffering in the exposed sections but looking perky in the shelter of the trees. Hopefully Spring is not too far off. Accidentally put an adult content label on this first time.🙄

Village Quiz Night - November 2024. You’re welcome. 💅🏽

#ruralbritain #quiznight #sussex #boredom #englishvillagelife