Category Archives: gardening

Faux Pas Amongst The Foliage #flowers #gardens #Embarassment

Posted on July 26, 2017 by

My garden, as you might know, is something of a joy to me. My sunflowers are going a storm I have tomatoes to die for – or I will when they ripen and the apple tree is drooping almost to … Continue reading →

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Duelling Gardens #gardens #competitiveurges

Posted on July 12, 2017 by

While this post wanders hither and yon, on the subject of my apparently dwindling competitive spirit, I’ll populate it with pictures from the garden today. There is a link – sort of – at the end… I’m a bundle of contradictions, sometimes. One … Continue reading →

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Pond Life and A Visit

Posted on June 27, 2017 by

I had a surprise today. This. In the spring of 2014, as he waded his way through his law exams, the Lawyer asked if we could build a pond in the garden. ‘If you dig it out,’ I said. ‘Ok.’ … Continue reading →

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In the Land of Grey and Pink

Posted on May 31, 2017 by

Or maybe yellow and pink; or green and pink. Pink anyway. The sun shone after a night of sporadic rain and the roses burst into an abundance of, er, every colour. But just as I’m taken by the pink I … Continue reading →

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How does the garden groweth? #gardening #spring

Posted on May 13, 2017 by

I’ve had the urge, see. A real throbbing need, an itch to scratch.  It’s the garden and since the weather has been warm and, thank heavens, wet today I’ve done a lot, even extending a gravel path and a bark path … Continue reading →

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O is for Opportunities #atozchallenge

Posted on April 18, 2017 by

For the last two years I’ve joined in the #atozchallenge, namely to post every weekday in April using each letter of the alphabet in turn. In 2015 it was places I’d been to, in 2016 it was London themed. This … Continue reading →

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One Step Beyond #carrotranch #flashfiction

Posted on December 26, 2016 by

Charli Mills, this week, gets a little ethereal as she steps beyond with the challenge December 22, 2016 prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) write a story that steps beyond. It can be a door, a tunnel, a worm … Continue reading →

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