Friday, May 3rd, 2013
My favourite times in the garden are early morning and in the evening. But if I had to choose one it would be early morning, with a coffee, wandering around and making a list of garden jobs for the day. We have a three day weekend coming up so my list of things I’d [...]
Tuesday, March 26th, 2013
The other week I pulled the four raised beds out of retirement and set them up outside the back door. It seems the best place for them as they will be close to the kitchen and therefore closer to our mouths and tummies! It was sunny that day and when the sun was not [...]
Wednesday, February 20th, 2013
I need help. The rabbits are out of control. They’ve begun to burrow in flower beds that they ignored last year. And already they have just about taken up a lavender bush I’ve been growing for quite a while. They are making their way up the bark of every single one of my [...]
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 [...]
