Euonimus japonicus?

Welcome to GOY Lengie

Wow !

Thats what I thought Valadel

Welcome from me as well Lengie.

Thanks for the welcome and the ‘Wow’ from Valadel.
I posted the picture in the hope that someone would recognise the shrub. It has been suggested it is Euonymus japonicus but they usually have plain green leaves. This one has a few variegated leaves and even some completely cream. I think it may be E. aureus that has reverted.
Anyway it is an attractive 6ft tall old gnarled shrub, full of character. It looked the same 17 years ago when I moved here so it is probably 30/40 years old. One disadvantage is that for two weeks every summer the flowers attract huge swarms of large black flies, which go hysterical feeding on the nectar. It's the only time I see these flies and they don't go for any other shrubs.
From November it is covered with pretty pink berries. These berries stay on the bush until they rot and are never touched by the birds or animals so presumably they are poisonous. It has never been pruned or fed and is growing in a small patch of soil between the back of my house and a drystone wall.

Interesting reading that where Bernieh lives he gets 1000mm rainfall a year. Here in the West Country we have had more than that in the last three weeks!! We all have very different gardening situations, that’s what makes this site so interesting.