This is a Pineapple Lily, eucomis bicolor, taken against a background of nasturtiums. I stronly recommend this plant to the novice gardner, it is easy and cheap to buy as a bulb for spring planting, it is a very, very easy plant to grow and fortunately, slugs and other pests tend to avoid it.

Mean, moody and magnificent! This is Jack, our Jack Russell terrier (imaginative name, eh?), taken at Malham Cove in North Yorkshire in Winter 2006. Jack has a blue eye and a brown eye. Pretty cool, eh?

This is Sophie, my 'step-daughter', on her 18th birthday - a few day's ago. She is getting ready for a night on the town. Note the immense handbag on the sofa. She's probably going to be dancing round that later...

Not a brilliant picture. Blackberries, ready to be made into more jam.

Manually initiated irrigation system.

Now a bygone, but still superficially in excellent condition, as you can see. A real rarity nowadays in the western world where we demand that our water appears from the tap (or faucet) on demand with no effort and no questions about how clean it is. I don't suppose it's all that many years since this was the norm though. Certainly I remember being facinated by the well at my grandparent's house when I was a little boy! They also collected rain water in a big barrel. This was within 30 miles of the centre of London. Also, I'm not that old, thank you.
I had to try the pump to see if it worked, but I'm sad to say that it didn't. They used to have wooden and leather washers and I suppose they had perished. All it did was let out a wheeze...

Rusting iron

Simply that. A quietly decaying mass of iron.

Shelves

An uncomposed shot of some glasses, cups, jugs, vases

Ruined? Or 'improved'?

Nice old VW Beetle seen in a restoration yard in Suffolk. I can't help but wonder what happened to it! Student prank? Bored kids while dad was out?

Toads.

Two common toads (bufo bufo) in my pond. I only dug the pond about April this year and am amazed at the speed with which it has become a 'live' thing.

Zombie Peacock!

Insane-looking zombie peacock.