This has been a strange spring and early summer in all ways. Not only have people’s habits been drastically changed by the lockdown, but we have had peculiar weather. It was the sunniest May ever – my solar panels made lots of electricity! It was unusually warm and here in particular extremely dry. All the muddy patches went and were replaced by dry ground.
Hannah Genders visits a village farmer whose philosophy is to ‘give something back’ and to enhance the land.
During lockdown earlier this year, many of...
Hannah Genders visits the source of Raymond Blanc’s famous seasonal produce and meets the gardening brains behind it.
As a saying from the 1940s goes:...
Amateur astronomer Brian Watkiss peers into the Village night sky.
February, the last full month of the winter: hooray! Sunset is getting later and we are...
Alvechurch amateur weatherman Phil Thomas records the changes.
February was another very wet and windy month. The rainfall to the 17th was 84.6mm, already more...
Alvechurch amateur weatherman Phil Thomas records the changes.
January continued the very mild weather that we have had so far this winter, although we did...
Keen baker Jen Morris, of Rowney Green, makes mince pies with non-traditional fillings.
The flavours of Christmas are not for everyone, and if you don’t...
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