My front garden: the new design begins
Now that I’ve pretty much finished up tidying up the back garden, I’m finally working on a major redsign of the front garden. This is how it looked about this time last year, not long after we moved in. Apart …
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What’s a lemony?
It was all cold and wet for a week or so after my last blog post, but now the sun has come out again and being a ‘balmy’ 6 degrees, just right for getting outside again. In the last two …
Ouch, and ouch
In between job hunting, I’ve been getting some work done both at the lottie and at home. Kevin and I have made lots of progress cutting back the brambles that covers two-thirds of the lottie. But, ouch! Bloody brambles, they …
Permaculture design course in Oxford
I have been interested in Permaculture for a few years now, and have recently been trying to apply it more readily in my daily life. I feel permaculture principles offer a positive alternative to the corporatist, capitalist, anti-nature and neo-con …
Potato day 2010
Last Saturday was members Potato Day at Garden Organic. I think I’ve gone nearly every year for the last 10 or so years, apart from last year. We moved house the day before and Kevin was deaf to my view …
laugh of the week goes to… iPad
I’ve just been reading through my Feministing RSS feeds, and came across the laugh of the week, for sure. Apparently Apple computers has named it’s new tablet thingy – iPad. hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha And the pic they doctored is hilarious, viz: Feministing …
Garden Organic Overseas Support Group – thanks INASP!
After a productive 18-months working at INASP, my contract ended last Wed (20th). As a goodbye gift, they very thoughtfully choose something garden-related that I’ve always wanted: a years’ subscription to the Garden Organic Overseas Organic Support Group. Through this group, …
Post-snow lottie: the results
It’s been a couple of weeks since I’ve blogged. I’ve been finishing up at my job at INASP and busy applying and preparing for interviews and it’s rather taken over a bit. However, I did finally get down to the …
A gardening book I won’t read
I was just wandering around the gardening and cookbook section at Waterstones today (they are next to each other) and out of the corner of my eye I saw the words ‘girls’ and ‘dirty’. Swinging back to take a closer …
Gwenfar’s Lottie in the snow
I did manage to get down to my lottie today. I was clearly the only one who bothered, as I had pristine smooth snow to walk through (nearly 2ft deep) to get through the gate and to my plot. And …