A Bookish Birthday
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You might well assume that I’d had enough of being busy doing nothing over the Christmas holidays. That’s certainly not the case. Over the […]
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Going Potty
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If the pandemic has taught us one thing, it’s to look after our mental health. If it’s taught us another, it’s to look out […]
A Year of Plotting
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January 2020 After waiting only four months, we got the news that we had reached the top of the allotment waiting list: if we […]
BITTERSWEET MEMORIES OF 2020
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The year 2020. Where to begin? It’s tempting to dive straight into the obvious negatives – and let’s face it that would be rich […]
SEASON’S GREETINGS FROM THE WATCH HOUSE
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Hello One and All! It’s been a while. Like everyone else, The Beau and I have been ducking and diving, trying to tackle this […]
planting ahead
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The first draft of this post began with a rather gloomy assessment of the year’s events. By the time I reached the third paragraph […]
Whatever the Weather
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Since the end of August the garden has taken one battering after another. In Broadstairs we have experienced gales from every point on the […]
The House by the Lane
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‘Chyanvounder’: ‘Chy’ meaning house and ‘vounder’ meaning lane in the Cornish language. We have made three attempts to visit Cornwall this year. The first […]
Getting Away From It All
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Like many folk, we’ve barely spent a night away from home since the New Year. I love The Watch House with all my heart, […]
Glut Instinct
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“Growing your own produce is great if you want no food, then 400 tomatoes, then nothing, then 120 cucumbers, then nothing, then 3 carrots that […]
Dazzling Dahlias
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As you know, we both adore dahlias: sadly they don’t adore our garden. Dahlias appreciate a little elbow room and plenty of sunshine to […]
And So It Begins…
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It is official, we won’t go hungry this summer! Harvesting on the allotment has well and truly begun, especially the crop of courgettes, and […]