To see out this frankly dismal month, here is April’s Stump Watch (a distant view, this time). In the far background, you can just make out South Harborough CC’s groundsman contemplating turning his pitch into something more appropriate – like a duck racing arena.
Posts Tagged ‘Little Bowden’
Stump Watch For April 2012
Posted in Nature, Trees, tagged Little Bowden, Rain, Spring, Stump Watch, Trees on April 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Stump Watch March 2012 : The Stump They Could Not Kill
Posted in Nature, Trees, tagged Little Bowden, Spring, Stump Watch, Trees on March 31, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Last day of the month, so it’s time for the usual visit to the Stump. “Not looking good” – you say - ”Finito, Caput, an ex-Stump?”. Well, at first sight, yes. but look a little closer, and – Stump, I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability, and I want you to know that we are [...]
Begin Again : Stump Watch February 2012
Posted in Nature, Trees, tagged Little Bowden, Stump Watch, Trees on February 29, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Last day of the month, and so it’s time for Stump Watch (newly shorn). There was an old man called Michael Finnegan He grew whiskers on his chinnegan The wind came out and blew them in again Poor old Michael Finnegan. Begin again.
Stump Watch Extra! … A Newsflash
Posted in Nature, Trees, tagged Little Bowden, Stump Watch, Tidiness, Trees, Vandalism on February 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been expecting this for some time, but this was the sorry sight that greeted me this morning out on the Rec – I noticed that the other trees had had the small branches that grow at their bases trimmed back as well. I imagine some well-intentioned soul has tried to “tidy them up a bit“. I [...]
A Bigger Stump Watch (January 2012)
Posted in Arts, Nature, Painting, Trees, tagged David Hockney, Little Bowden, Stump Watch, Trees on January 31, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Time to say Goodbye (and, frankly, Good Riddance) to January. And that can only mean one thing - it’s Stump o’clock! Not much advance on last month, I’m afraid – This idea, though, of observing a tree through the changing seasons – I wonder if anyone else has tried it? Perhaps mucked around a little with [...]
Stump Watch For December 2011
Posted in Nature, Trees, tagged Little Bowden, Stump Watch, Trees, Winter on December 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
As the year draws to a close, it’s time for the last Stump Watch of 2011. It seems fairly inactive at the moment, but then so am I. Note that someone has tied a white plastic ribbon round the old chestnut tree to the rear (folkloric significance, if any, unknown).
Hell No, We Won’t Grow : On Strike In Leicestershire
Posted in Politics, This England, tagged English politics, GMB, Leicester, Leicestershire, Little Bowden, Strikes, Stump Watch, Trades Unions on November 30, 2011 | 5 Comments »
I’m afraid to say that this month’s Stump Watch has had to be called off due to industrial action. So here, instead, are a few snaps of the march and rally in Leicester. I have to say that, as someone who’s never been on a demonstration in my life before, that I found it [...]
Stump Watch for October 2011
Posted in Nature, Trees, tagged Autumn, Little Bowden, Stump Watch, Trees on October 30, 2011 | 2 Comments »
This month, we see the Stump in the evening, illuminated by flashlight. It continues to suffer depradations (i.e. having bits broken off it) – perhaps because it’s now at a convenient height for people to snap branches off to throw for their dogs to chase.
The Tree Is My Seat That Once Lent Me A Shade
Posted in Architecture, Arts, Memory, Nature, Poetry, Religion, This England, Trees, tagged Churches, Little Bowden, Poetry, St Mary-in-Arden, Trees, William Cowper on October 8, 2011 | 4 Comments »
More news of the tree stumps of Little Bowden. This newly created stump is in the churchyard of the abandoned St Mary-in-Arden. The anonymous tree-surgeon-cum-artist has thoughtfully fashioned a rather comfortable seat from the remains of the tree – providing an excellent vantage point to sit and contemplate the abandoned church – and muse on the [...]
Stump Watch for September 2011
Posted in Nature, Trees, tagged Autumn, Leicestershire, Little Bowden, Spiders, Stump Watch, Trees on September 28, 2011 | 2 Comments »
As the number of posts in between the monthly Stump Watches seems to be dwindling a little, I sometimes have the suspicion that the Stump is turning into some kind of terrible Triffid-like thing that is determined to occupy and colonise the blog completely. One day I shall log on and find that the title has [...]
