December 5th: Let There Be Light During the next month or so, those of us in Northern Hemisphere will be experiencing our darkest days of the year; not emotionally, one hopes, but in terms of […]
Advent Thought For The Day: 4
December 4th: Christmas I spend an extraordinary amount of time thinking about Christmas and, yet, at the same time I spend no time thinking about Christmas at all. I refer, of course, to the fact […]
Advent Thought For The Day: 3
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 decks ready for the new year. Indoors we refer to spring […]
Advent Thought for the Day: 2
December 2nd: Cardinals I have never seen a real cardinal bird, and yet they follow me wherever I go. On my buying trips in India and China and I can guarantee that almost every product […]
Advent Thought For The Day: 1
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 appropriate day of advent. Since it’s a busy time I am […]
My Top Tips for Buying a Real Christmas Tree
Part of my day job is buying Christmas trees for British department store John Lewis & Partners. It’s a task I particularly enjoy since I can apply a modicum of horticultural expertise to my decision-making. […]
Biting Hard
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 involve a lot of tense gaping, followed by a gentle telling-off […]
