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 January Garden: A Wrap
It’s over. January, that is. We’ve had a bit of rain at the start, a lot of frost in the middle and the early stirrings of a mild and mildewy end. The lawn had an early mow, went to sleep … Continue reading
Garden: January So Far
We’ve had sun, frost and rain but no snow. The temperature has touched the high teens and plumbed the below zeros. There’s a lot of green and brown, and white but little colour yet. The lawn has had a last … Continue reading
The Garden: A Twelve Month Reprise
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Frost – At Last
We need a shock to quiet the garden, so it can replenish ahead of next year. Today was the first of several below freezing nights and frosty mornings. Mind you neither of the pets were keen now we have a … Continue reading
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…
October Garden
There is a ridiculous amount of colour here, given both the brutal summer and its the end of October. I don’t have the words so I’ll let the images speak for themselves . To begin though here’s the lawn after … Continue reading
Week Thirty-Eight: 2022
Well, that was a rollercoaster of a week. It ended with me coughing like a fifty a day trooper, diagnosed as a chest infection and told by the GP to take it easy, not something I’m especially good at. The … Continue reading
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Week Thirty-Six: 2022 – Just One Last Thing
This week has been about the Quilt show, one way or another, so I thought I’d finish with this. It’s a twelve foot square panel that had to be laid on the lawn and was tricky to photograph. Can you … Continue reading
Posted in 2022, Dulwich, miscellany, quilts, thought piece
Tagged 2022, Dulwich, garden, quilts, thought piece
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The First Half Of September Or A September Of Two Halves #garden
We started in drought and have moved into soggy saturation. Almost. Dust bowls have gone, replaced by forests of grass and a revived set of sunflowers, straw flowers and, well, pretty much every flower. There’s been a fair bit of … Continue reading
Ah August: The End Of Dust? That Garden Thing
I’m not really sure about the garden, you know. We’ve thrown a lot of dishwater around, captured the one heavy downpour in seven dustbins and are now under the restrictions imposed by a hosepipe ban. But to keep up the … Continue reading
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