Today was a good day. Yesterday, not so much. MS doesn’t cope well in the heat, and it is inclined to drag me down with it, especially if I’ve done too much in the previous days. I can end up with a frustrating yo-yo effect where I’m well and super productive – mostly trying to catch up on the previous day where I found myself … Continue reading A Day in the Life of Me
(A paid post with the good people from GARDENA NZ) The thing I love about the garden is there is always something new to do or discover. But the knock on effect of this is there are some things that were once new to you that you just wouldn’t be without. And one of those things is irrigation. The garden is big and to water … Continue reading Sorting out the watering
It has been a long hot summer. The kind of endless summer you remember as a kid, when the sun shines for days on end and it seems like it will last forever. You go to bed at night with the windows open, and then wish you had some kind of screen to stop the enormous moths coming in and divebombing your head. But for … Continue reading Well, that’s a tad disappointing.
After the drama of the Great Water Escape over Christmas when we lost over 30,000 litres overnight thanks to a tap fiddler, I’ve made a few changes. The leak wasn’t intentional as the tap didn’t immediately gush with water and needed the pump by the tank to activate before flowing so it was impossible to know if it was on or off. There was no … Continue reading Waterwise
Of all the garden tools at my disposal the one that works the hardest is the hose. It is the font of all hydration that is not heaven sent. Actually, all the water here is heaven sent, but the hose delivers the water that was captured upon the roof and then saved for… I was going to say ‘saved for a rainy day’ but while … Continue reading An Ode to the humble hose.
