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
Tag Archives: garden
The Garden June 2022
This time of year the garden seems to pause. The poppies are done and the dahlias still to arrive. Still you can make up you mind. Oh and yes we’ve allowed the lawn to grow out and the clover in … Continue reading
The Garden – Mid June 2022 #garden
It’s been a bit mixed and today it’s nearing 30C with 34C threatened tomorrow making it one of the hottest June days on record. The colours, though have been stunning and while I’ve let the lawn grow shaggy to preserve … Continue reading
Sisters Doing It For Themselves
Meanwhile the garden is finding its colourful feet
Roses Are Red (And White, And Peachy, and Yellow…)
This time of year, when the roses in the garden return for their first flush is always a joy, both the full blooms and the tiny buds (which are often a totally different colour).
Week Twenty: 2022
This week has been garden based, mostly, much to Dog’s frustration. A bit of lawn maintenance, a fair bit of planting and weeding and general this and thatery. Beyond the garden and walking Dog, I spend a fair amount of … Continue reading
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May Garden, After The Rain
A week on and… It always looks very perky. As does Dog… And the views from the hill on our favourite walk are as contemplative as ever.
May Garden: a bit of colour #garden #May2022
The first half of May has been dry and happily, today the rain has come. It perks everything up. That said, a lot grows at this time of year and some colour is bursting out… And Dog is out and … Continue reading
Week Sixteen: 2022
If you’re on a bit of a break, then a catch up on what’s on your mind is a bit contradictory. But hey, it’s easy to throw a few things down. As you’ll know I had a procedure and it … Continue reading
April Sunshine #garden
So even April is scuttling towards the summer with Easter done and dusted and May no longer so unsure that it should be renamed Will when we get there. In the garden the blooms continue, this year’s tulips are stunning, … Continue reading
Marching On #marchgarden #2022
And so it ended. A cold end after a mild week, so we had a bit of everything. April has started promisingly but let’s not get ahead. We had signs of flowers and shrubs both continuing and peeping through… the … Continue reading
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