The garden

Señor Hosè Pipe

I know we’re not supposed to be using automatic watering aids, and ‘onest Guv I was only hosing down the…

3 years ago

Getting hotter…

If you saw the earlier post about the Royal Welsh show starting today in Builth, I have to report -…

3 years ago

Small tortoiseshell butterfly…

Attracted to the oversized verbena, this chappie is a rare addition to the garden. Chatting to an allotment holder the…

3 years ago

Hedging our bets…

A betting term as you may know. One of my first jobs in Customs and Excise was test betting which…

3 years ago

Gotta be done…

Might feel a Wally (old Metropolitan London expression-Ed.) but safety first. Getting log sawing over in long trousers over wellies…

3 years ago

And so it begins…

after the tree felling, the storing, sawing and splitting starts. The men did a great job and I an in…

3 years ago

The trees.

One of the things that attracted us to Merryhall was the trees. Two enormous Sycamores which must be a couple…

3 years ago