On Daneway Banks

...Daneway Banks nature reserve, that is, near the villages of Sapperton and Miserden, where Cider with Rosie, shown on the BBC tonight, was filmed, Miserden is a tied village that hasn't changed much since Laurie Lee's youth.. It's been a good year for spot-the-Cotswold location in dramas, though I'm gutted that I was present at the scene (Chavenage House) of the filming of Poldark, yet never managed to see Ross, nor his hair!

I was too lazy to look for macros, and the light was very strong, so I've ended up with a panoramic shot instead. Steve had promised me butterflies, but there were precious few, though he saw a lot of goldfinches. We've missed them in the garden this year.

Back home, I patched a pair of jeans. It was quite a to-do, and I understand why it went out of fashion in the affluent west. I thought about the journey of the cheap factory-second jeans, probably made in a sweatshop in Bangladesh, to Store 21 in Stroud, and then to being worn out and patched with another ripped pair of jeans and fabric from a jumble-sale dress. I wondered who makes the demin, and who grows the cotton (?) that makes the fabric. Wasn't there a film about all of that, or was it a Levi's advert? However, by upcycling and recycling, I guess I'm buying fewer death-factory jeans in the first place. Most of my neighbours in Tower Hamlets were Bangladeshi.

This evening, I made blackberry syllabub with the fruit I picked yesterday, and noticed with pleasure that Scotland and Ireland both won their rugby games today.

Am I going to get up at 3 am to watch the big moon doing its thing? I very much doubt it, since I'm due in at work a few hours later.