My Quiet Life in Suffolk

 Bit cooler earlier in the week so we managed to get through the  exercises at Keep Moving Group. I led some and thankfully another lady ste...

Blog readers from countries that regularly have hot summers must be fed up with reading about our English 'heatwave'! So I'll ap...

The cheapest nearest diesel was £1.86 a litre last Sunday,. Apparently this is £8.46 a gallon - good grief. (thats's $11.37). I'm so...

 And of course next day -the digger had to come back to fill in the grave....  ................now the entrance is even muddier than yesterd...

Found something to post about.............. Like the snowdrop photos the other day, these daffodil buds, not too far from opening, are on th...

Plough Monday, the first Monday after Twelfth Night was the day the agricultural year started, but before they began  their hard work, the p...

This photo of the post-box in the village was taken in October and I mentioned then how it was wrapped in plastic waiting for the 'autom...

 The post box in the village has been wrapped in black plastic with this notice attached. Apparently we will get a super-duper post-box with...

 There are several fields not far from home growing a mystery crop this year. It's very colourful with seed heads of red/purple, yellow ...

The 4th heatwave of the year didn't seem to be as hot as predicted here in Mid Suffolk, although that might be because I didn't do a...

 I took a walk up the lane with the camera to see what crops were growing this year. No sugar beet this year but field beans on one side, ba...

On Sunday I was just about to walk up to the post box to get a letter off when I discovered it was the Stowmarket Half Marathon. There were ...

I'm always sad when I hear or see mature trees being cut down, but sometimes when they are very big and in among houses it's probabl...

Thank you everyone for comments about rubbish collection in various parts of this country and other countries. I just hope the council produ...

 My walk up the lane to take photos of the Oaks happened right at the end of August, a beautiful sunny morning, blue skies all round. Things...

 The end of May and time to take photos of the oak trees up the Quiet Lane for the Following a Tree 2024 posts What a difference a month mak...

For Star Wars fans........................ May the 4th be with you! - and if you aren't a fan then you'll wonder what the idiot woma...

 When you live in a village where nothing much happens, anything is interesting! So seeing dozens of runners passing by on Sunday was kind o...