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Tag Archives: gardens
Taking The Positives #gardening #shortstory
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
Posted in flash fiction, gardening, gardens, Uncategorized
Tagged flash fiction, flowers, gardens, home, short story
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Splish Splosh, Here Comes The Sun #garden #betareaders #thelastwillofsvenandersen
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
Posted in Books, gardening, gardens, miscellany
Tagged beta readers, book, colour, gardens, spring, the Last Will of Sven Andersen, winter
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Duelling Gardens #gardens #competitiveurges
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
Posted in competition, experiences, gardening, gardens, miscellany, thought piece, writing
Tagged competitive spirit, family, gardens, generosity, philosophy, writing
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Mothery update
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
Moth eaten
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
One Step Beyond #carrotranch #flashfiction
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
Posted in creative writing, families, flash fiction, gardening, home, humour, prompt
Tagged carrot ranch, gardens, hampshire, home, humour, thought piece, wells
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Son of the Hole
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
