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Cold? Nah, Just Brassish… #garden #philosophy #poetry

Posted on Jan 27, 2019 by

There’s an old expression about the cold: ‘It’s cold enough to freeze the knockers off a brass monkey’. Which sounds rude but isn’t (or so the Archaeologist told me once – something to do with how they used to stack … Continue reading →

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Three Ways To A Red Nose

Posted on May 30, 2018 by

Three things come together this week that make me feel nostalgic. One the garden looks lovely and especially the hostas and irises. Second the warm weather justifies the start of the moth trap season to see what if any moths … Continue reading →

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Ponderings While Pulling Trees

Posted on May 10, 2018 by

A little light musing, interspersed with pictures of the garden.. I was digging up a tree yesterday. It’s the sort of work that I used to love when working at the legal coal face. It meant I couldn’t actually think about … Continue reading →

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Taking The Positives #gardening #shortstory

Posted on Apr 17, 2018 by

A glorious day, one for exploring the garden. Spring is with us and temperatures will be up into the 20s centigrade this week. Yet we still have standing water in the paths at the far end of the garden. Next … Continue reading →

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Splish Splosh, Here Comes The Sun #garden #betareaders #thelastwillofsvenandersen

Posted on Apr 7, 2018 by

Scotland, at Easter was dry and blue. Hereabouts it rather precipitated down and I came home to a small lake at the end of the garden, frogspawn on the lawn and the remnants of recent frosts apparent in some burnt … Continue reading →

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Duelling Gardens #gardens #competitiveurges

Posted on Jul 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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Mothery update

Posted on Jun 22, 2017 by

Regular readers will know I have been keeping an eye on the moths visiting my garden. They come in all shapes and sizes and, frankly, are often jewels of nature with subtle colour shifts. Often as not the difference between a … Continue reading →

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Moth eaten

Posted on Apr 20, 2017 by

As a child we had a moth trap. This isn’t as cruel as it might sound in that moths aren’t killed in said trap but captured during night flying hours and held until freed in the morning. When dad died … Continue reading →

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One Step Beyond #carrotranch #flashfiction

Posted on Dec 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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Son of the Hole

Posted on Apr 9, 2015 by

Back in the summer 2014 I posted about the latest addition to our family – a Pond. But that optimism evaporated (unlike the rainwater) and by October this was my post. We had had enough. Repairs could and should wait. … Continue reading →

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