This is what happens when the sun shines… You mow the lawn (or get someone to do it for you) You sit around with treasured friends, and eat and drink and play Children strip off…as if they know their little bodies need the sunshine …and all is right with the world. Click here to get [...]
Armfuls of flowers, at your whim, to do with as you please….to scent your home (including your bedroom, and your loo) and enough left over with which to play lady bountiful…that’s one of the reasons I got into gardening. I’ve been growing flowers for cutting since I began this whole gardening malarkey…making my way through [...]
…Because I am away, and I’ll miss doing Eastery stuff like this – some little projects from my vault: Just click on the titles to find out how to make and do. Pussy Willow Nests Decorating with eggs Lantern Posies Easter Baskets
…I’ve been trialled and tested and let me tell you this: I wouldn’t be welcome in my own garden…I wouldn’t be able to take it. I know this because I’ve been in bed for the past two weeks with the most almighty plague which I haven’t been able to shake without the help of evil, [...]
I have done a BIT of gardening recently… …well, I say *I*….what I really mean is *he* HE turned my compost heap, and HE mulched my beds. I had not touched the compost for two years, and the bottom layers were lush. Hunk likes the physical work (and it really is a work-out…much [...]
I went into the garden today (bit early, I know – how unlike me…I mean it’s not even MARCH yet is it) …but there was a sliver of sunshine, and the grass was gleaming, and the whole thing just sort of said ‘come hither’. So out I waddled, inappropriately dressed as usual, and stood next [...]
…Here are some truly terrible photos of how I did my table and stuff… Itching now for a day in the garden….
My daugher’s Christmas List goes like this: Princess Dress (pink), Princess Gloves, Princess Ring, Princess Crown. Father Christmas has taken note. Here’s MINE: Lovely old watering cans (£30-40) from Petersham Nurseries. Beauteous Christmas (and any-time-of-year) light to hang on my apple tree (£119.99) from Crocus.co.uk Jean Dange Bohemian Pot (£54.95) from Clifton Nurseries Six fat quarters (that’s quilting [...]
I didn’t die…. …but I HAVE been a bit distracted with things other than blogging recently. We’re heading into Christmas (I love Christmas), and this year everyone’s coming to MY house, which will mean ‘decking the halls’ properly, WITH toddler, who has informed me that she expects to be involved in a big [...]
The garden has been neglected (and is none the worse for that)…I’m sluttily leaving it until the second half of September, when I shall whip things into shape in that ‘back to school’ way we all have. What HAVE I been doing? well, mothering really. A three year old takes rather a lot of [...]
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