Advent thought For The Day: 9
Reading time 4 minutes
December 9th: A Load of Baubles Most of us have a very casual attitude towards Christmas baubles. We buy them in tubs, boxes or […]
Musings
Advent Thought For The Day: 8
Reading time 5 minutes
December 8th: Deck The Halls This weekend many of us will be putting up our Christmas tree. Those that could not bear to wait […]
Advent Thought For The Day: 7
Reading time 3 minutes
December 7th: An Englishman’s Home is his Castle. I have been away for five days and I can’t wait to get home. The more […]
Advent Thought For The Day: 6
Reading time 4 minutes
December 6th: Borders What horrible, divisive things borders are. Wars have been fought over them, walls and fences have been built to defend them […]
Advent Thought For The Day: 5
Reading time 5 minutes
December 5th: Let There Be Light During the next month or so, those of us in Northern Hemisphere will be experiencing our darkest days […]
Advent Thought For The Day: 4
Reading time 3 minutes
December 4th: Christmas I spend an extraordinary amount of time thinking about Christmas and, yet, at the same time I spend no time thinking […]
Advent Thought For The Day: 3
Reading time 3 minutes
December 3rd: Winter Cleaning December isn’t the most exciting or encouraging month in the gardening year, but it’s the right time to clear the […]
Advent Thought for the Day: 2
Reading time 3 minutes
December 2nd: Cardinals I have never seen a real cardinal bird, and yet they follow me wherever I go. On my buying trips in […]
Advent Thought For The Day: 1
Reading time 3 minutes
December 1st: Stop Complaining I’ve set myself a little challenge for December; to post a thought each day accompanied by a photo representing the […]
Biting Hard
Reading time 4 minutes
I have never enjoyed going to the dentist (that would be perverse), but equally I’ve never feared the experience either. Generally my twice-yearly visits […]
Bulb Porn
Reading time 6 minutes
Each year, ‘order bulbs’ goes on my to-do list in July and each year it is still there in early September. By then there […]
Where Have All The Coleus Gone?
Reading time 14 minutes
When a plant does well in my garden, I want to grow more of it. As a gardening strategy, this makes perfect sense. […]