Monday, May 20th, 2013
This past weekend Robert and I built a garden arch out of wood. Some of the wood we found here when we moved in and the rest Robert bought for a tenner from a chap who was selling it whilst also giving us a quote to chop back some of the huge trees that [...]
Tuesday, July 17th, 2012
There’s a rumour, just a rumour, that the weather in the UK this coming weekend will be warm and sunny with no rain. I don’t know whether this will turn out to be true or not but if it is, oh if it is, my family and I will be outside for the full forty [...]
Wednesday, May 30th, 2012
Hello! The trouble with writing a homemaking blog is that you can sometimes be tempted not to show any makeovers until they are complete, perfect and established. But that would mean an awfully long time in between posts so I’m not going down that route. Instead I’m making a choice to show progress, in all [...]
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011
Hello! Thank you so much for all of your book signing suggestions. Each time I got an email through I felt like I was getting a plane ticket to somewhere that was a complete surprise. I loved hearing about your bookstores, both big and small, and it made realise how much we still treasure the [...]
Friday, June 17th, 2011
Before the real work begins on the shaping of my Room Outside I’ve been busy planting up the borders that surround the area. That’s after creating the borders mind you as there were none before I started. I’ve dug fairly narrow beds around the outside of the space and have planted a mixture of annuals [...]
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
Today is pretty exciting for me as I’m posting the first post in a series called The Room Outside, I’ve created a new category for it in the Garden section of this site. These posts will show the process of creating a room to eat, sleep and cook in while being outdoors. And this is [...]
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
Very new babies sleep an awful lot, don’t they? They sleep a lot more than I thought they would. When they are asleep there always seem to be things to do before they wake up for the next feed. Tidying up (not getting a whole lot of that done, I’ll be honest). Cooking and eating [...]
Monday, June 21st, 2010
So, it would seem that when I was away having babies the Paddock here at the house was busy growing and becoming irresistible to hang out in. This is what the space looked like last July. We’ve been working on it, on and off, for the past year and now it is starting to take [...]
Monday, November 16th, 2009
Paddock Update! What Have We Been Up To? Well, for starters we have put the raised beds to sleep for the Winter. Robert decided to split our four big beds into eight narrower beds. This sounded like a tragedy when he suggested it because we’d spent so long on them already but he whipped one [...]
Monday, September 14th, 2009
So, this was the view on Friday evening. Lovely. All the beds had been marked out and the wood that we were using to build them had been laid in place. The sun was going down over the paddock and all was well with the world. The twins had been over that evening and I’m [...]
