The Sincerest For Of Poetry
Apprenticed To My Mother
Walking Into Trouble
Dead Flies and Sherry Trifle
The Last Will Of Sven Andersen
Booms And Busts
Buster & Moo
Salisbury Square
My Father and Other Liars
Life In A Conversation
Life, in a Grain of Sand
Life In A Flash
Category Archives: gardens
Mid April Garden
No words, just pictures… From on high Floribunda Pets and things
Let’s See: That Garden… November 2022
It’s been a riot Of colour. Lots of rain but no really cold nights. And we keep on mowing the lawn. And Dog…
That Elusive Stuff
Rain. I’m not used to the lack… I’ve cursed it, danced in it, decanted it and diverted it. It’s greened my garden and destroyed some sporting hopes. I’ve wished it gone more times than I care to recall. And recently, … Continue reading
Week Twenty-Five: 2022
A week of ends, loose or otherwise. I managed, a week or so ago to send the last draft of my book ‘TheDiary of a Trainee In-Law’ to my editor. Then, in rapid order I finished an edit of my … Continue reading
Posted in 2022, dog, gardens, thought piece
Tagged 2022, beta readers, Books, dog, garden, harry spittle
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Sisters Doing It For Themselves
Meanwhile the garden is finding its colourful feet
That Garden Post: February 23rd
It’s been wet. It’s certainly been windy. Three named storms in a week which is a first. It’s not been cold and we’ve had a fair bit of sunshine. The wind. Well, lots of debris and one of our neighbours … Continue reading
The Garden, As The Year Starts To Breathe Its Last #garden #2020 #november
November, even a mild one as we are having in Southern England, usually makes its winters credentials apparent, through mists and murky skies, and this has been no exception. The infrastructure projects have slowed: the new terracing is done, the … Continue reading
Seasonal Sculpting #arcimboldo #RHSwisely #gardens
Some years ago, I had a break that took in Vienna. Lots of art galleries, Vienna. One of the great pluses was the strategically placed sofas so one could study specific works of art without acquiring some buttock embolism. However, … Continue reading
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Tagged arcimboldo, Art, birthday treat, gardens, RHS Wisely, sculpture
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Laying Down The Lawn #mylawn #cheers #garden
As assiduous followers of this blog know, I have a complicated relationship with my sward. Or swards as there are three. Since it was announced that (a) son and fiancé plan to host their wedding festivities here next August, Great … Continue reading
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