The Cuckoo’s Shoe
Yesterday I posted about the Cuckoo. Today, naturally, it is the Cuckoo’s Shoe — not, alas, footwear for birds, but yet another whimsical provincial name, this time for the Dog Violet. A harmless enough little flower, though my encounter this morning has sent me spiralling into yet more botanical trivia.
The woodland floor is having its usual spring flirtation with t ...
#shotoniphone #ukcountrypic #photography #SilentSunday #NationalTrust #northumbria #Seahouses #FarneIslands #greyseals #puffins #Arcticterns #guillemots #kittiwakes
The Farne Islands are a group of rocky islands off the northeast coast of England, near Seahouses in Northumberland. They are famous for their wildlife, particularly seabirds and grey seals. The islands are managed by the National Trust and are an important breeding ground for thousands of birds, including puffins, Arctic terns, guillemots, and kittiwakes.
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Nice walk this morning at #NationalTrust Penrose Estate #Cornwall #Kernow #Nature #Trees #water #sun and @LabradorMolly seemed to enjoy it! #dog #labrador #DogsOfMastodon
Images from a visit to Crook Hall gardens, the epitome of an delightful English country garden, pictured in the spring sunshine. Dating back to the C13th, with later C18th additions, the property is located in the Framwellgate area of the City of Durham.
#england #durham #historic #nationaltrust #spring #april #photography
Bransdale’s Dry-Stone Walls: Standing Strong, Sometimes
Dry-stone walls are everywhere on the North York Moors and in other rocky parts of Britain, mostly because they are built to last and farmers found plenty of stones lying around. The concept is hardly original; versions of these walls have existed since Neolithic times, and from Europe to Afri ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2025/04/04/bransdales-dry-stone-walls-standing-strong-sometimes/
In my home city of Sunderland, Washington Old Hall, ancestral home of Founding Father and first president of the United States, George Washington. Back in the day, former USA presidents Ulysses S Grant and Jimmy Carter have both dropped by and said 'hello'.
So, it's a bit sad that our historic ties being strained by all that's happening just now!
#england #sunderland #washington #usa #historic #nationaltrust #photography
So all my white ‘Dyrham Park’ tulips have turned out pale yellow. Luckily this is a colour scheme I can live with, but I’m glad I kept the packet so I could check that I wasn’t going mad… #NationalTrust #gardening
This is my favourite #magnolia of all magnolias. It is called Felix Jury and these flowers are truly enormous and the deepest magenta in colour.
I managed to get us one for our garden last autumn, so I hope we shall have similar flowers in a few year's time.
#Kernow
#Cornishgardens
#Trengwainton
#NationalTrust.
#Magnolias
A couple more images from the weekend's visit to Wallington Hall, Northumberland in North East England. A glorious weather taster of what is hopefully to come with the season of spring just around the corner.
#england #nationaltrust #northumberland #gardens #spring #photography
Nudging a very respectable 18°C at Wallington Hall, Northumberland, in this weekend's spring-like sunshine across North East England. The main house isn't open yet, so it was the annual crocus display in the 'walled garden' proving to be the big draw. The overflow car park put to good use with queues on the approach road as visitors were determined to make the most of the weather.
#england #nationaltrust #northumberland #gardens #spring #photography
Loughwood Meeting House, Devon
One of the earliest surviving Baptist meeting houses in Britain, founded in secret c.1653, remaining illegal until Toleration Act 1688.
Given to National Trust 1969 and really well restored. Absolutely adorable!
: interiors my own, exterior @morgrugyn
A Brief and Unnecessary Guide to Burrs
When I was a lad, I remember a Saturday morning BBC Radio programme called Children’s Favourites. One of the songs frequently played was I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly, sung by an American named Burl Ives. I thought Burl was an cool name.
At the time, I had no idea that ‘burl’ is the American term for those un ...
http://www.fhithich.uk/2025/02/23/a-brief-and-unnecessary-guide-to-burrs/
Hall Wood, Farndale
A pleasant little wander around Farndale on another bitterly cold morning. The route, regrettably, was largely tarmac, because the North York Moors, in their wisdom, provides very few Public Rights of Way in the dale bottom away from the ever popular daffodil trail. By chance, we came across Hall Wood, a rather unpretentious National Trust property lurking along the dead-end road on th ...
