Teri and Angus in Norfolk

—Animals of and photos by Cathy Koetsier

Birthday pansy photos

Happy birthday Sandra Dodd! 🎉🎈
A wheelbarrow full of Kes’s cross pollinated Pansies for you. 🌸🌼
Hope you have a lovely day.✨

Janine Davies sent that, and these photos, in 2020. I saw them in facebook memories, and came to see if I had shared them here. Now I have.

I love the wall and the brickwork, the flowers, the wheelbarrow, and Janine for sending the photos, and Kes for being a young boy (younger two years ago) who plants flowers and sees beauty.

From a long line...

I'm not sure what, and I don't know why, but it's a nice looking pattern.
Embercombe posted this in 2015.

Embercombe is an organization that help people experience nature more, and better. They're in Higher Ashton, in Exeter. It's near Chudleigh.

I don't know who took the photo, but Janine sent it.

Matching but not

Photos by Janine, at her friend's house, on Pottery Lane, in Brede, Rye, East Sussex

Archeological dig

Children at an archeology dig, England, 2014, photo by Julie D.

Mural of produce, image of wheelbarrow

Laurie McPherson saw this on a New Mexico gardening page on facebook and sent it to me. I'm in New Mexico, too. But the art and artist are in England.

Good gourd almighty! Stunning seasonal display of pumpkins and squashes set to wow the crowds

That was the replacement title for what's in the URL, it seems, which was the more staid "Halloween 2011, Pumpkin squash display wows crowds. Slindon, West Sussex."

Four in West Yorkshire

At This Green Moon farm and venue, in Leeds. Photo by Dawn Todd.

Allotment wheelbarrows, real and imagined

The logo of an allotment society. Janine Davies sent it. Their whole site with the Covid-19 rules is pretty interesting: Photos Janine took:

The Easter leopard and his wheelbarrow

Karl again, still Rotherfield, but a special occasion (thanks for sharing your photos, Janine!)

Karl and the dirt from a hole

Just yesterday I brought up the riddle about how much dirt one can take out of a hole (none, because a hole doesn't have any dirt), and now I see how much dirt is not in this particular hole!




That's what the dirt near Rotherfield, East Sussex looks like. This wheelbarrow has appeared before, and the image was sent by Janine Davies.

Winfarthing, Norfolk

Winfarthing, Norfolk
The horse and dog are pretty artsy. I know the man. But clearly this is a photo of a wheelbarrow.

photo by Cathy Koetsier,
who usually does that work herself

Flowery Wheelbarrow, UK

Julie Daniel sent this. It appears to be in someone's garden, in England.

I don't think that much could thrive in a wheelbarrow in New Mexico. It's beautiful.

The moon, in Stroud

Anonymous donor wrote:

"While visiting...in Stroud, England recently I noticed this orange wheelbarrow and the full moon and I thought of you."

Stroud isn't a big city, but this is the third post in this blog of a wheelbarrow in Stroud. The other two were also by people who were visiting. I think that's a sweet coincidence.

Mine, of a child's wheelbarrow, and Janine's from a visit she made.

Prep for Spring

Janine Davies wrote:

So these barrows were working hard today in East Sussex, in a rural area between Broad Oak & Burwash,in a friend's garden at Rainbow Cottage. They were moving compost and mulch material from a pile to the raspberry bushes getting ready for spring. The little green one belongs to their 3 yr old daughter.

The bright green wheelbarrow transported the 3 yr old daughter on a short walk we took to look at two meadows and a woodland a musician friend of our friends has just purchased. Nice 🙂

Whelks, from a wheelbarrow (Victorian days)

I don't have a photo, but maybe someone will come across on.

I wasn't looking up wheelbarrows, but checking how to spell "whelk" (whether it was "welk," and it is not), for writing a bit about how Koreans use toilet paper for napkins and nose wipe and all else. Or they did when it was a poorer country and not a family might use tissues (like Kleenex) for everything from paper towels to butt-wipe.

Anyway, I found this:

Take a peek under the whelk's shell, however, and you'll find it to be quite an eccentric little chap. Sold out of wheelbarrows in Victorian London, the whelk was a popular street food in the poorer neighbourhoods of Whitechapel and Lambeth...

Times, of course, have changed. No one would dream of eating street food from a wheelbarrow.

(Quote from: Whelks are healthy, versatile and sustainable, so why did we stop eating them in the UK?)

Seafood with a shell, from a wheelbarrow, brings to mind the song "Molly Malone, which starts:

In Dublin's fair city, where girls are so pretty
I first laid my eyes on sweet Molly Malone
As she wheeled her wheelbarrow, through streets dark and narrow,
Crying "Cockels and mussle, alive, alive-o"

She's usually shown with a flat, wooden hand cart, in images I've seen in music books, and a statue they have in Dublin now.

Christmassy Wheelbarrows

That photo original appeared among others in November 2017, but all by itself, it's like a wheelbarrowy Christmas card! Thanks again, Janine!

Holly

Janine Davies sends these from near Rotherfield, in the UK:

Food transport

Jo Isaac wrote:
"The fire (and bonus wheelbarrow for Sandra! Used to bring the burgers, buns and drinks across the paddock!) — at Rotherfield Countryside."



Jo's photo.
I know everyone in that picture—people from Australia and England who ate together in East Sussex yesterday.

Red, rust, and yellow

"Found this wheelbarrow in Barrington Court, a National Trust property in Somerset. The busy gardener was not far away..." —Cat GB



I like the brickwork, and the matching rust colors. The broom color is a good match, too.

Avebury, UK, 1930's, assortment

In the 1930's, a wealthy man named Alexander Keiller was doing archeological work in and near Avebury, UK. They used these three wheelbarrows (along with other and odder equipment). I took the photo from an image in the museum in Avebury.

Looks like there's a wooden wheel (probably iron clad), a rubber wheel, and a continuous track / tank tread on two wheels.