It was a grey gloomy old winter day and like easing yourself into a swimming pool, once I got into the garden it wasn’t actually that bad. I hadn’t gone as far as to wear a beanie, but I hadn’t been in the garden long before I’d abandoned my jumper and gloves and was happily digging about in the cool, damp soil. I achieved … Continue reading Sweet Digging
The garden has been calling to me persistently like a sea siren to a pirate. Sometimes the most I can do is to stare longingly back at the garden as it calls to me, as life beyond the garden shouts louder and more aggressively with its demands. But some days I am free to frolic in the depths of its green gloriousness. Having said … Continue reading A Currant Affair
After a busy period I finally got to spend an entire day in the garden and it was wonderful. It was my birthday wish, and it didn’t disappoint. The first half of the day was spent mowing around the garden. The little ditty “Spring has sprung, the grass has rizz, I wonder where the lawn mower is…” is so true. I haven’t had time to … Continue reading Weed into a bucket and other observations from the garden
The busyness has haunted me for weeks, shadowing my every move. It has caused me to leave a trail of debris behind me because I have been so focussed that tidying up isn’t thought of as part of the task, but a necessary evil that can be done at a later date. Although we all know, this never happens. So now I find myself in … Continue reading The Big Spring Clean
I have discovered the best way to avoid eating food that is not local is to get a tummy bug, possibly from some remote eatery that seemed like local goodness at the time, while on a road trip. That way you can be sure nothing will pass in or out that is from foreign locations because nothing is going in at all. I have been pretty … Continue reading Tummy Trouble
I can’t believe we have had … I struggle to find the words – sunny days is too overstated, but cloudy days hardly seems worth getting excited about. The wind is still there and it rains overnight – which is convenient. But it is still really quite cold and definitely not imminently pre-summer weather. I know: Hooray, we have had four gardenable days in a … Continue reading Four days in a row!
Hello ever so slightly shorter gloomy winter days. Well we have passed the winter solstice – the shortest day. No longer will the day be so abruptly ended at 5:11pm! With each passing day we will begin our descent towards summer. Each sunset will bring us a minute closer to the warmer sunnier days of a perfect summer. Because this season is going to be … Continue reading Goodbye long gloomy winter days…
But I’m going to try and do 30 beds in 30 days! And the challenge started yesterday. I am sitting here with sore aching muscles. Initially I thought it was the foreign lurgy I brought home from our trip as a souvenir. Then it occurred to me – this is what hard work feels like! I have been so crazy busy on other projects and … Continue reading Please don’t consider me promiscuous
I am trying not to throw all my eggs into one basket as I have a lot of work to do across the garden to get it spring ready and so if I concentrate all my efforts in one area then others will suffer because of it. So I am juggling loads of different projects and loving the challenge of it all. This is going … Continue reading Weeding and building.
I have a dreadful problem with procrastination, especially if it is a task I don’t want to do, or I get the idea for something but decide it isn’t important enough to go at the top of the list. Then I end up with a list – or even a sub-list that contains a whole lot of things that would only take a jiffy to … Continue reading Some things just don’t belong on a list.
