On Tuesday morning I could hear all this clanking and clattering going on out the front of my little abode. The unmistakable sound of scaffolding poles being dropped from arm height in the way that men have of doing things as noisily as possible. Look at me, look at me….
Category: My Garden
Living well alone
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Big fucking trees
I carted a large Ligustrum Aureum home from B&Q this morning in my seaside stripy trusty trolley. To you and me that’s an evergreen shrub. The largest small tree I could afford and carry. I was on a mission. I’d sold my Sodastream. No gas bottle or pop bottles, just…
Growing Old Wisely
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Spring equinox
As I’ve got older I’ve found that this is my favourite time of the year. Tomorrow is the Spring equinox and also Ostara- the Pagan celebration of Spring. Everything is coming back to life as Mother earth wakes the land with the promise of sunshine and warmth. A renewal and…
Growing Old Wisely
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Spring this year…
If it’s your bag Spring is the time of endless emails and post from gardening websites. It works too as I want to buy everything! Not this year though. Definitely not. Last year I grew stuff for both neighbours. Herbs for the one who loves cooking, flowers for our communal…
My Garden
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My little Ladyshed!
I’m thrilled that I’ve finished building my little greenhouse/wendy house/ man shed thingy. It’s been a labour of love but it’s now concreted in and reinforced and should 🙏🙏🙏 hold up to the wind. I was down to my tshirt in there today on a 5C day so that bodes…