What a relief to have a normal British summer’s day – often overcast and with temperatures in the lower 20’s (Celsius). We might even be lucky and get some actual rain at some point this week…
29 June 2026
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19 June 2025
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Looking Down on the Back Garden – June 2025
Here is the June edition of my “viewed from upstairs” series. Plenty is flower and in a variety of colours, making a very attractive display.
15 August 2024
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Looking Down on the Back Garden – August 2024
Compared to July, August brings vivid bursts of additional colour to the garden’s palette:
20 July 2024
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Back Garden – July 2024
July’s garden is abundant and it will look even better when the high summer flowers, like Echinacea and Rudbeckia come out fully.
31 August 2023
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Back Garden – August 2023
I took this photo a couple of weeks ago but there’s just time to get it posted in August: You can’t really tell in this photo but some of the flowers seem to glow as dusk turns into night, particularly … Continue reading
18 July 2022
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Looking Down on the Back Garden – May 2022
I missed taking a picture in June, when white flowers were predominating, but we’re now into the height of summer and other colours are coming out: Given the temperature, inching above the mid-30s in Celsius, it’s not surprising that it … Continue reading
23 July 2021
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Back Garden – July 2021
Here’s this month’s photograph. Compared to June some things are starting to look autumnal! I think that might be down to heat stress although we’ve tried to be reasonably diligent about watering. The weather is cooling a bit now and … Continue reading
10 August 2018
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In for a soaking
It looks like Oxford stands a good chance of a solid soaking later this morning. All I can say is hurrah! While dull, gray summers aren’t much fun this year’s blue skies have gone on for too long at a … Continue reading
8 August 2015
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Food and Music
We had a lovely evening yesterday that combined a couple of my favourite things – food and music – in time spent with friends. Given the good weather we decided to have a BBQ and invite a few people to … Continue reading
25 August 2013
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An English Summer’s Day
Today has been a typical late-summer day in England. Weatherwise we’ve had both rain and clear skies. Jane and I also compounded the experience by spending an hour or so in the beer garden at the Vicky (Victoria) Arms in … Continue reading