Winter visitors

As winter has come early, with snow on the ground in late November and going to work in -4 degrees, my spirits have lifted by a new visitor to my garden bird feeder.     Hummmm, time to steal the …

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October round-up

October was rather busy with work, and my back continued to give me problems, hence the lack of blogging. Here is a round-up on a couple of things that I/we got up to. Earlier in the month Kevin, Jackie and …

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Harvest Fame

After blogging about the Harvest Festival on Sunday, I was called up by the Oxford Mail (no correlation, I doubt the Oxford Mail reads my blog!) and interviewed me about the festival. An article is going in tomorrows paper, and …

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Harvest Festival

Yesterday was the harvest festival at Barracks Lane Community Garden. I don’t know why I haven’t written more about the garden before, given I love it and I work for it two days a week! Somehow I’ve never got around …

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Pretty picture

I’ve not have time or the energy to blog in the last week or two, so here’s a pretty picture of something* flowering in my garden at the moment. Don’t even ask me about the lottie, I haven’t been about …

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A sunny weekend

Bloody hell, we are going to have a sunny weekend! What’s more, it’s the first and only weekend in ages that Kevin and I are home and no committments, so we can get down to the Lottie. Lottie in the …

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Cambridge botanic gardens

I haven’t had much of a chance to blog recently. Been so busy with my two jobs and the permaculture course, that blogging goes down the list of priorities… However, Kevin and I were in Cambridge on the weekend visiting …

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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 …

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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, …

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