Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
One of the exciting things about moving in to a new place is the fact that you never quite know what will come up in the garden. We first viewed this house in January. I could see that there was a climbing hydrangea to the right of the front door and a honeysuckle to the [...]
Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
I shall open with the last verse of a hymn All in the April evening, April airs were abroad; I saw the sheep with their lambs, And thought on the Lamb of God. I didn’t actually think of this hymn when I was looking out over the fields that surround the garden, my mother in [...]
Monday, March 12th, 2012
My poor garden. The minute Spring hits and it bursts in to life again I have to put everything in to pots and move them to a new home.As you can see the moving process has started in earnest. Over the weekend we were all out in the garden for a bit in the afternoon. [...]
Wednesday, March 7th, 2012
If you don’t follow me on Facebook or Twitter (links below) you’ll not know that yesterday our mortgage was approved by the bank. After spending TWO MONTHS making up their minds (bit of a backlog apparently, although that didn’t help our state of mind while waiting) Robert called me from work yesterday to say they [...]
Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
Hello! Welcome to my corner of the world in West Sussex. I have been here all week, apart from yesterday when I was up in London for a meeting. It’s great for me, as a mum, to don a summer dress, heels and make-up and stride through the streets of London in the sun occasionally. [...]
Wednesday, May 25th, 2011
Hello! Good morning! How are you? I thought I’d do a wee update from my garden today. An update and a confession but more on the confession later. I’ve got so much going on outside in the garden right now that it can get a little tricky to keep up with it all. ALWAYS one [...]
Monday, May 16th, 2011
Garden, garden, garden. From Friday afternoon until Sunday evening when I fell exhausted on to the sofa. The inside of the house is remaining woefully unpacked but the outside is taking shape. I said to Louise (my sort of sister – in – law) as I began to stack the dishwasher ” I don’t want [...]
Friday, May 13th, 2011
Good morning! I’m a big believer in reusing whatever I can whenever I can. My raised beds are a case in point. Here they are in place at my old house last Summer and here they are stacked up their in the corner of my new garden, can you see them? I didn’t want to [...]
Monday, May 9th, 2011
Good morning! Welcome to the week everybody. I feel ready for it (sort of), do you? I wanted to say thank you at the start of today’s post for the notes that were left on Facebook and on twitter with regards to my old school friend, Julie, passing away in a road traffic accident. I [...]
Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
Last Thursday morning, as removal men packed up a great deal of our lives, Robert & I had to leave the busyness that was our soon to be old house and make our way over to the new house for the inventory to take place. The inventory is a very important part of renting a [...]
