The garden

Postpone the pee…

Pause the poo, shudder at the thought of shower. We(e) forgot to book the sewage man! Should be done every…

4 years ago

I’ve taken up jigsaws…

Man-sized ones! Underneath the Sycamores is a stone circle which has become overgrown and weedy. “What shall we do about…

4 years ago

Barn painting

It’s that time again and the barn roof needs painting. I did it three years or so ago, and used…

4 years ago

A new broom.

A new broom sweeps clean, so they say (Ed. - Who’s they? Need some attribution here), but when to replace?…

4 years ago

Edgin’ our beds

Well, everything’s gone mad! Dry April, wetter than usual May, and more to the point, it was colder than usual.…

4 years ago

The Spanish variant…

Is taking over and there’s nothing we can do. No anecdote about sombreros, no antidotes or arm filling, no detracting…

4 years ago

What a turvy-topsy world…

April was the driest for some years, and not for the first time we had an absence of April showers…

4 years ago

Bluebells.

Native bluebells are out and springing up in the most unlikely places. Just singles, maybe a couple or a small…

4 years ago

Temptation.

Apples are the key to Eden. The gentle hum (buzz is too noisy a word) of bees, the grasshopper chirruping,…

4 years ago

Two into one won’t go.

Near the river gate we put a fence to protect the entrance from the Donks who persisted in eating the…

4 years ago