I’ve had a pretty lousy week, paying for a run of lovely, busy weekends and the welcome gift of some work with a health back-lash that I have been in denial over until I finally had to concede. I took a day off. After a lie-in, followed by breakfast in bed with a good book,…
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(Sorry the photos are so naff, I never have learnt the art of indoor photography…) Its very windy here today. Not the kind of windy that the poor people of Queensland have just lived through, or as wintry as has hit the USA and Canada in the past few days, but the silver birches were…
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Sunday dawned cold but sunny, making a welcome change from the dull grey we have been treated to recently. I knew, when I got the allotment, that there was a danger of me being so distracted by my bright new shiny toy that my first love would be neglected. My determination not to allow this…
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Yesterday was much milder than it has been, and I headed outside to attempt some actual gardening. Sadly the pond is still frozen, so no way to skim off the leaves that I should have removed a couple of weeks ago. The ground was still rock hard too, so no opportunity to rescue the Gladioli…
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Autumn sunlight streaming through still-green silver birches. Seedlings thriving in the greenhouse. A Californian Poppy deciding to flower in October. The garden glowing in soft sunlight.