To accompany my Christmas dinner this year, I opted for vegan tofurky, [a tofu/plant based mix] and really enjoyed it. When I was recycling the packet, I noticed that it was almost two years out of date! I was relieved that there were no negative side effects, after devouring the lot. I’ve ordered more since, …
The days may be dark and grim but there is the promise of new blooms as the bulbs begin to emerge, and already there are snowdrops. Everywhere I look delicate green shoots are pushing through the earth and each week it gets a little lighter. Spring is not far away. Viburnum, witchhazel and snow berries …
Spring seems earlier than usual this year. It’s rather odd as the snowdrops, crocus, iris and daffs are doing very little in the sunnier, south-facing front garden but are bursting into bloom in the back. Usually, it’s the other way round. I absolutely love the iris popping up in all the side planters on the …
Since the biblical flood a while back, the kitchen has taken to sprouting mold at an alarming rate. Black patches had popped up everywhere, on the walls, coving and ceilings. It was becoming a little embarrassing as well as horrible to look at, so I finally grabbed the bull by the horns and decided to …
I was almost blinded by a blue sky recently, I simply cannot recall the last time I saw one. Most days have been like this, bitterly cold, grey, gloomy, wet and windy. I’m so glad I wrapped the lemon tree, although I suspect it’s dropping it’s leaves under the cover. I’m surprised by how well …
The house looks like a building site, and men constantly tramp through it, but apart from that, life goes on…. Chloris kindly sent me some seeds, what joy, seeds always put a smile on my face. I already have a Chloris corner, where plants she has sent me in the past are now thriving! I …
At the moment, it seems to be a bit of a battle trying to get anything done….at all! Everywhere I look, jobs need doing. The windows are taking on a stain-glassed/mottled-spiderweb appearance as it’s been so long since I cleaned them and the ironing is beginning to take over the house! Every time I go …
And so it begins….the buying of seeds. I always start off sensibly, thinking about what I would really like to grow, then as winter drags on the blood seems to rush to my head and before I know it I’m acquiring packet after packet of seed. But, at the moment I’m still in the sensible, logical stage and …
Well, it’s that time of the year when one simply HAS to make a start and begin the big clear up! Given it’s either snowing or raining I thought I’d crack on with the greenhouse. As I walked into the greenhouse, I almost trod on this brown frog, brilliantly disguised it is! Four painful hours …
