Turn away now if you’re squeamish about garden pests… our broccoli-growing adventure continues with the summer-long battle against the cabbage white butterfly. Friends warned us…
What the musician and the poet did next
Turn away now if you’re squeamish about garden pests… our broccoli-growing adventure continues with the summer-long battle against the cabbage white butterfly. Friends warned us…
Well we learned a lot this year – not to plant vegetables too close together (in other words, adhere to the instructions on the seed…
By late July there’s so much colour in the garden, it’s hard to spend time anywhere else!
We decided to have a garden party, although the last weekend of July turned out a little cooler than we’d have liked. At least it…
I wish I’d taken photos of the old shed, but basically it was falling apart (leaking roof, rotten floor, various layers of roofing felt peeling…
I am such a townie, and have never grown fruit or vegetables, unless you count the potato plants I inherited in the back garden of…
It’s been a lovely April (although we’ve had to do a lot of watering in the garden as the ‘April showers’ have been few). Although…
We’ve now had the living room floor stripped. The carpet had been getting more and more grubby, and it was already stained when we moved…
A few weeks ago I posted some pics of our kitchen, and the shell of it after builders had ripped it all out. We’ve had four…
Within a couple of days of the kitchen project starting, we had delivery of the cabinets and appliances, so space had to be found for…