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: gardening
Metrological Spring, Or The End Of February #garden
The garden is slowly shedding its drab winter colours. Progress on the works at the end of the garden is being made – new gravel has been laid across some parts and some false sleepers ordered as stepping stones before … 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 A to Z Of Life
I read a lovely post from the compelling fingers of Jennie Fitzkee, early years teacher par excellence. It lead to a short comment exchange that recalled my missing out of a place at Oxford University and ending up in Bristol. … Continue reading
Posted in memories, miscellany
Tagged boy scouts, Bristol, gardening, hampshire, memories, sway
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Week Fourteen: 2022
Our house is filling up. The financial adviser and his new wife are planning on moving in while the house they are buying is restored to rude health. I believe this is called boomeranging though that usually entails someone out … Continue reading
Posted in dog, gardening, thought piece, walking
Tagged 2022, bees, fox, gardening, river wandle, walking
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That Garden Place: An Update
I haven’t been busy in the garden. Post the wedding we decided to just let it go…. and go. Mostly laziness? Probably. The Textiliste who hates the idea of time wasted is curating a community textile show this coming weekend … Continue reading
Prepping, Priming #garden #june
It’s stayed wet but between the showers and occasional downpours the weather has been warmer and things are growing… growing. We’ve reached the planting window. The poppies have been stripped by the rain so we’ve stripped them from the long … Continue reading
Invasive Species
I spent a month in New Zealand in 2014, touring both north and south Islands with my son. One of the constant items about which we heard much was the impact of introduced species of flora and fauna on the … Continue reading
Posted in gardening, miscellany, New Zealand
Tagged gardening, green parakeets, invasive speicies, lupins, sunflowers, wilding poine
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Quietly Vegetating #growyourown
This year is the first year we’ve really put our backs into growing veg. It’s a lot of effort, especially when growing from seed and it’s probably because we’ve not gone away so have been able to make daily adjustments … Continue reading
Glorious Garden May 2019
It’s been a perfect month for the garden. Maybe a little more rain but that would be rather churlish, all things considered. And as the month developed more and more colour began to burst forth And everyone enjoys the benefits, … Continue reading
I Have Worms!
Pam Lazos wrote recently, here, on the joys of compost which I can echo. It made me, once again, recognise a parental lesson I received from a young age. My parents, specifically my mother recycled, repurposed and upcycled well before … Continue reading
Posted in family, gardening, home, miscellany, thought piece
Tagged compost, family, gardening, parental lessons, planning, thoughts
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