Observations about everyday things
What makes a good salad? As with everything in life, it depends on your life and food experiences. When I was growing up, salad prepared for my family always meant Iceberg Lettuce (I didn’t know there was any other sort), tomatoes that looked okay but tasted of nothing at all and watery cucumber with the… Continue reading About that salad-16 June 2022
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Adding a small bed along the side of the new compost container area was an after thought. The gardener had some extra boards left over from other raised bed edges and I thought a small bed just here, under the edge of the shade of the hazel tree, would work well for salads. He was… Continue reading A summer salad bed-14 June 2022
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My long-suffering gardener Andy says, “Do you really want all these old poppies here again this year? Yes, bless him, it was a bit of a leading question. He was weeding the border and his idea of what looks good is straight lines and bare earth- I like all curves and random soil-covered generousness. We… Continue reading Nature’s random gifts- 11th June 2022
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My youngest niece got married on the 7th of May this year. I wanted to post this piece on that day but was away on holiday with no access to my files. Hopefully, this will be a case of better late than never. When she got engaged, I asked my sister if there was some… Continue reading The Cobalt Blue Pot-28th May 2022
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As we all know, the Earth is part of a clock. It keeps its own time no matter what tinkering we humans see fit to try and impose on it. For me, the moment Late Spring become officially Summer is the moment the residents of the three Swift boxes on our chimney wheel back into… Continue reading As late Spring slides into Summer-21st May 2022
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“What on earth are you doing?” My husband was bemused that I had whipped out the phone to take a photo of a pile of rusty chains on the quayside of St. Ives Harbour. “So many other things to take a picture of and you photograph old chains?” Yes. Yes, I do. They had not… Continue reading Rusty chains-12th May 2022
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I just had to show you this. Mr. Rooster arrived this morning in a small box which was handed over the doorstep to me by the postman. Yet again, I had forgotten what I had ordered! I tell you, it’s Christmas Day many times through the year in this house. I came upon Jane Maddison’s… Continue reading Jane Maddison Breathers®-20th Apr 2022
My gold leather gardening gloves have turned up in various photos that I have used on this blog before but- TA-DA! New gold leather gardening gloves. A present from my husband for Easter-again-and very welcome they are, too. It is almost as if my gloves have a little timer switch in them that makes them… Continue reading It must be Spring-17th April 2022
It’s been a while since I last posted here but Spring has arrived and I am in the garden. It is 127 steps from my greenhouse door up to the water tap at the back of the house and back again. So says my Fit Bit. Well, if you have a Fit Bit, surely you… Continue reading New Garden Friends- 11th April 2022
I mentioned not long ago that I was putting off the Spring Cleaning. I was, I did, but I can do so no longer. The Spring light has finally pushed me into action. The problem with me is that, as with most other things I do, my Type A personality needs to do things in… Continue reading Cleaning our homes-31st Mar 2022
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