Thursday, July 26th, 2012
As you can see we inherited some Hollyhocks. And what fabulous specimens they are too! With all the rain and generally rubbish weather we’ve had up until now Robert and I have let the garden take a back seat. We’ve focused on getting the plants we arrived with out of the pots and trying to [...]
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, June 27th, 2012
I love hydrangeas at this point. You know, the point when they are still quite small and green but there is a hint of soft colour coming through. I cut a few of them the other day and wanted to make a posy that didn’t flop over the top of the vase and out on [...]
Thursday, June 21st, 2012
I think it’s safe to say that summer has gotten off to rather a slow start this year. But it’s still only June, we may have three months of glorious heat, sunshine and hazy days ahead of us so I’m not writing it off just yet. What this inclement weather has done is to make [...]
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 [...]
Monday, July 11th, 2011
Hello there. Robert is still in hospital. Tomorrow he will have been in for three weeks. Unfortunately I have not seen him in person for a week as my heavily pregnant sister has just had a very bad cold and as Robert has no immune system to speak of it was best not to take [...]
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
I now have a comments function. Leave your comment/question at the end of every post! On Sunday night, as the rain lashed against the windows, I asked myself if it really was the end of Summer. I’m not so sure it is. I often get caught out like this. I assume the long hot days [...]
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
It’s a lovely thing to pick vegetables with a baby, one of your own babies, strapped to your front. I walked around the paddock the other day and harvested some of our fabulous veggies for supper that night. It was the first proper meal I’d made since bringing the babies home. Due to my C-Section [...]
Monday, July 12th, 2010
Robert the Husband says that I like to colonize areas. By this he means that if there is a space I will fill it. Whether that be with junk that actually needs to be sorted properly and put away or with an idea. When creating a container garden in the space outside my back door [...]
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 [...]
