The garden

Work to be done…

It’s the first few days of January and the veg patch is looking good with Sprouts and Leeks alongside Kale…

5 years ago

Cock of the walk

There he is, he’s seen off another two males, all he needs now is a friendly girl, or two, or….

5 years ago

The second of January…

… … and it’s that [emphasis] time, the day to take down the Christmas decorations. Sandie is taking the tree…

5 years ago

The veg patch

We’ve had a good year for veg, apart from Squash, which was a disaster, not sure why.  Probably the delayed…

5 years ago

Straw wanted.

After last year’s disastrous barley harvest, we’ve had to make do with the previous year’s crop. Our lorry back which…

5 years ago

Autumn colour.

The dry October meant that many trees in the garden seemed to have given up the ghost after the late…

5 years ago

The past emerges…

… who knows who lived here in the past, but maybe a few clues emerge. It was a cider pub,…

5 years ago

Remembrance Sunday.

A beautiful sunrise this morning highlighting Llisdynam hill. Whilst a lot of leaves have fallen already, the remaining ones are…

5 years ago

“Winter draws on…”

Change the clocks, change the routine change the underwear. As a young, raw, naive new boy introduced into (Civil Service)…

5 years ago

A new project…

“We haven’t got a project”, said Sandie, “we need to clear out some of the overgrown beds”. Fair enough, so…

5 years ago