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boast much more than a patch of grass for the deck chairs, although this one did have some gravestones - a hangover from when it was converted to a Baptist chapel.The weather was cold, frost glazed the north-facing side of the valley when I went out

The loose bark on old logs is one of the most important hibernating sites for all manner of insects. Here they can remain sheltered from predators, and also from their main enemies during winter: frost and damp. This week they will be sorely tested

I don't know how long the frisbee had been lying there, but when I broke it free from the stiff frosted grass beside the pond, it left a circle of tell-tale yellowing stems and roots beneath. When I turned it over I was maybe expecting some torpid

It was blisteringly cold on Sunday, and the water butts were frozen over, but it was not a deep frost. So repairing and replacing the raised beds up at the allotment was relatively easy. The old scaffold planks we put in four or five years ago have

Nearly back to normal now, after Christmas and New Year. Sunday saw us with 3-year-old scooting in Dulwich Park. Thankfully there was no wind, because it was blisteringly cold, and the ground was still covered in frost. So when I saw a small bird

'm not sure if I have any pictures of the momentous day itself, but I have plenty of images of insects taken near the house during the build-up.In the early 1990s land was cheap in central Florida, after severe frosts killed thousands of acres of orange groves