Ben Summerskill

The @BBCNews is turning into the @dailytelegraph "Hot totty" on A-level results day

Phew! Christmas cards just finished in time for 31 October deadline

Don’t forget to buy your Christmas postage stamps now! They go up by 30p each from Monday

First mulberries. First apples. #countingmyblessings

Within just 48 hours the berberis on the terrace has spring into the most beautiful flower #countingmyblessings

Tipping down again but someone’s enjoying himself in the garden

Pre-lunch drinks outside. On 28 January #countingmyblessings

Thank goodness the chickens (impertinently laying blue eggs) don’t have to trade with Uk supermarkets

All good things, even a two-headed Christmas tree, must come to an end

On the 11th day of Christmas. (Who can forget the - surely apocryphal - tale of the Queen declining to make time for a Boxing Day heart-to-heart with Prince Charles because she had “wrapping paper to iron”?)

Happy thanksgiving. But what to do with these if you can’t stand pumpkin pie? Any ideas?

For 23 years I attended three party conferences a year. Today I’m sitting outside in the sun in shorts. So difficult to decide which is preferable … #countingmyblessings

Suddenly, within 24 hours, a bed of cyclamen breaks into flower #countingmyblessings

Dear @lambeth_council Why do you repeatedly allow “eco-friendly” rubbish contractor @firstmile to leave uncollected rubbish in our streets for days at a time, acting as a magnet for other dumping. If residents did this, you‘d fine them. (@firstmile made £2m profit last year)

View over the Downs just now #countingmyblessings

First beans this year #countingmyblessings

Suddenly as if by magic summer arrives #countingmyblessings

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