I didn’t realise they would produce so many. Our lovely neighbour watered our garden when we were on holiday and so I took her some. It’s time to pass them around I think! The peas are ready and absolutely delicious. We had roast chicken and lots of summer veg on Sunday, the peas...
They’re amazing producers, giving a really high yield of cherry tomatoes on just one bush. I’m not buying anymore tomato seeds either. I’ve got a multi-pack of a dozen varieties from a Lithuanian producer. I was thinking they might be dodgy, especially as I couldn’t read the ...
“Don’t hang up that phone.” Silence. “Tell me about your bush.” “Again, just as you like it. I haven’t shaved in weeks.”Ten million men like bare pussy and I get an Indian guy who loves hair! “Mmm. I can’t wait till you get here. You have me hot already. Now ge...
On Tuesday evening, when it was furnace like, as the heat had accumulated from the previous days, he spent a long time noisily slurping the water. We were spellbound, holding our breath watching the dark rugby ball shape at the end of the garden. Then he was off, to the ferns and und...
This year has been challenging, I’ve lost two close relatives and there have been lots of difficult times. Quiet moments like these; walking up a frosty driveway and finding bright berries on a holly bush to remember and reflect have been good. Christmas is Christmas because of the people...
Someone spied flowers on the rosemary bush. Pretty pale mauve, aren’t they? Anemones Cyclamen with a cheeky anemone which has come up in the middle of the clump Hellebores are so elegant Many clumps of tulip leaves all around the borders, I can’t wait to see the flowers I’ll share...
I chose the Textured Bluebells pattern from Jan Eaton’s 200 Crochet Blocks for the body. The rest was a mix of trebles and half trebles to join and shape the pieces. Easy stuff. Buying: locally produced eggs. They are eggcellent (Soz! I can’t help myself) Managing: to cram the ...
are such an unusual shape, sort of rectangular. They werenext to a huge clump of snowdrops near to where I parked the car. I wonderwhat the aconites look like now? The gardenhere is full of croci and surprisingly they haven’t been flattened. The Christmastree went over in it...
giving a really high yield of cherry tomatoes on just one bush. I’m not buying anymore tomato seeds either. I’ve got a multi-pack of a dozen varieties from a Lithuanian producer. I was thinking they might be dodgy, especially as I couldn’t read the packets (!) but the varieties ...