First Notes of Spring
Reading time 7 minutes
Today was a day of firsts. It was the first time I’d spent a whole day in the garden since autumn; the first […]
Our Coastal Garden
Frost Proof
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The weather in the South East has continued to be bitterly cold this week. Our seaside garden, normally sheltered from frost, must have succumbed […]
Cold Snap
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Goodness it’s cold. If you’re in the UK, you won’t thank me for stating the bleeding obvious. If you are in Australia or New […]
Daily Flower Candy: Correa ‘Marian’s Marvel’
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My sweetie jar has been a little empty of late, so I think it’s high time I resumed my occasional Daily Flower Candy series, […]
Waste not, want not
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I don’t have many dislikes. Of those I do, chief among them is waste. Rather ambitiously, one might say naively, I spent £300 […]
Scents of Christmas
Reading time 11 minutes
It’s been a sensory Christmas here at The Watch House. The pain of concluding the building project and clearing up afterwards, the pleasure […]
Christmas Cheer
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The last time I was up at 6am on Christmas morning I was ten. With a three-year-old in the house it was inevitable […]
An Olympian Task
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As my plane to New York taxied down the runway this morning, I received a message alerting me to a missed call from […]
A Once in a Lifetime Job
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Our building project was due to finish in mid July. It’s now late November and the work continues, over time and over budget. […]
Homecoming
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Stepping out into the garden for the first time after a holiday is always an anxious moment. Will everything still be upright? Quite […]
Holiday Mode
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Our “proper” holiday, by which I mean a holiday where I am looked after rather than being expected to look after others, has […]
Slow Progress
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I have watched enough episodes of Grand Designs to know that when carrying out a major building project two or more of the […]