21°C at 05.30 at Upper Hardres
15.8°C in cold air pocket below Stelling Minnis at 06.35
Writer, speaker, cyclist.
The last five years of sowing hollyhock seeds from the window of my car and from my bicycle on the overbridges is now beginning to take effect.
The central reservation on the A2 is showing results.
Left, this display is a result of my return journey from the swimming pool. I threw the seeds from the car window. You have to be careful otherwise they blow back inside the car. The pool closed three years ago.
So, as you drive around Canterbury on the A2, either going to, or coming from Dover, have a look out for my hollyhocks. My plan is for the flowers to be so successful that they spread all along the road. I think they look prettier than the scraggy stuff which usually grows there.
Perhaps I should spend more time in my garden then I would not make discoveries such as this. There are over a dozen eggs in this makeshift nest hidden between my garage and my shed.
Continuing the series of passport portraits in my collection.
Peruse and wonder.
Celeste Grijo Junquera in 1955 is a theatrical artiste known as, 'The Spanish Betty Boop'. In reality she is not Spanish but Portuguese, having been born in Lisbon in 1920.
This is her portrait in her Mexican immigrant passport which allows her to stay in the country to exercise her profession of, 'vedette of theatre, radio and television; recorder of discs and performer in cabaret and in cinema'.
She stays in Mexico for eleven years, eventually leaving for Argentina in 1966.
The ceiling light in the dining room at the Beverley Arms Hotel.
An explosion of broken crockery and cutlery.
A petrol pump dating from the 1920s, still in place a century later.
We needed somewhere to stay between my delivering two talks in Northamptonshire and we made this discovery.
It started out life as the Northampton Flying Club on the land of Hall Farm.