Dentists and Indulgences: The Return from Chelsea
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There is nothing quite like a visit to the Chelsea Flower Show to galvanise one into action vis-à-vis one’s own garden. I returned […]
Musings
Cold Front
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Hold the front page, the Beast from the East is not quite done with us yet. On Saturday we’re due to plunge back into […]
Down But Not Out
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I’ll confess last week’s wind and snow damage got me down, not that I had a great deal of time to dwell on it. […]
Counting the Cost
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I’ve been out in the garden this morning assessing the havoc wreaked by The Beast from The East and Storm Emma. It is […]
The White Stuff
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Oh! How we love a ‘snow event’ here in England. The rare instances when the white stuff descends from the heavens used to be […]
The Best Things in Life are Free
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I have largely avoided being drawn into snowdrop mania this year. I have no snowdrops in my garden (which is […]
Launching ‘Project Dahlia’
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Having completed twenty five years service at John Lewis, ‘Partners’, as we are all known, are rewarded with six months paid leave. I will […]
Hungover
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If I had made any New Year’s Resolutions, one of them would have been to spend more time appreciating where I live. Folk […]
Christmas at The Watch House
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Motivated by the prospect of an OK-style, ‘At Home with Mr Christmas’ photoshoot this week, I have been decorating every corner of The Watch […]
No Rest for the Wicked
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In previous years I have managed to keep posting regularly through December, although the topic of my posts has steadily moved away from gardening […]
Winter Sun
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I love it when it’s cold and sunny. I can tolerate the frostiest weather so long as I have the sun’s rays on my […]
A Potting Shed Christmas
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If you’ve not put two and two together yet, I’ll let you into a little secret: when I am not writing this blog […]