It's been the best part of four years since I last posted on this blog which roughly equates to my son learning to crawl. He's now coming to the end of his first year at Summerseat Methodist Primary, a small and lovely village school which has recently celebrated its 150th anniversary.

In the meantime I've been busy elsewhere posting about the music that fired me up as a kid on another blog called Songs From Under The Floorboards. If you're even vaguely interested in late Seventies and Eighties music you'll find almost 400 posts ranging from punk to the odd current thing that takes my fancy.

A cold spring has meant that many of our wild flowers and blossoms have been late to bloom but with the recent hot spell I was out at the weekend with my camera. The poppies in the last shot line the wall on the walk up to the school...