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: gardens
Seasonal Sculpting #arcimboldo #RHSwisely #gardens
Some years ago, I had a break that took in Vienna. Lots of art galleries, Vienna. One of the great pluses was the strategically placed sofas so one could study specific works of art without acquiring some buttock embolism. However, … Continue reading
Posted in gardens
Tagged arcimboldo, Art, birthday treat, gardens, RHS Wisely, sculpture
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Laying Down The Lawn #mylawn #cheers #garden
As assiduous followers of this blog know, I have a complicated relationship with my sward. Or swards as there are three. Since it was announced that (a) son and fiancé plan to host their wedding festivities here next August, Great … Continue reading
Cold? Nah, Just Brassish… #garden #philosophy #poetry
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
Posted in gardens, miscellany, philosophy, poems, poetry, thought
Tagged gardens, poems, poetry, seasons, thoughts
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Three Ways To A Red Nose
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
Posted in family, gardening, miscellany, moths, sport, thought, thought piece
Tagged cricket, gardens, Lords, moths
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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
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