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Happy St Fiacre Day
The weather’s been pretty rotten lately – cold, windy, overcast with plenty of intermittent rain. We were busy in the flat – the painting marathon continues. But we should be done soon. Here’s hoping Felicity Fiacre, our garden watch woman, … Continue reading
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celebrating sunflowers & stuff to do with willow boughs
Our sunflowers have finally come into bloom. Yippee! Despite the slugs and snails devastating many of my early sunflower seedlings, a few managed to brave it out and are finally in full bloom. We’ve got sunflowers sprinkled just about everywhere … Continue reading
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thinking ahead – special seasonal tipples
The end of summer approaches. I’ll be back to work soon – which surely will be a shock to the system. What? No outdoor time for six hours a day? Oh my! It’s going to be something else this year, … Continue reading
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chilli update & outfoxing the foxes
After a week of heatwave conditions of over 30 degrees in London, the weather turned on Thursday 13 August with spectacular thunder, lightning and torrential rain. No doubt the Hungarian chilli plant enjoyed the sweltering conditions more than we did, … Continue reading
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shoe mystery solved
We’ve been cursing our neighbourhood lately. Pandemic aside, our little leafy corner of north London is awash in rubbish. Missed garbage collections on the circus makes for growing tides of swirling garbage. Drives super-dude nuts – to the extent that … Continue reading
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feeling plummy
It’s plum harvesting season on the plots. We don’t have a tree on our plot, but many others do. Earlier this summer we harvested greengage plums from the bottom plot we’ve been keeping an eye on for the nice couple … Continue reading
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high hopes for Echium
Earlier this summer.. or was it spring..? Probably late May, the big dude did a wander through the plots to the end – looking for foxes and butterflies and what-not – and spied an end plot that had absolutely magnificent … Continue reading
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July’s over…
July ended with a mini-heatwave. We arrived at the start of this week and simply had to photograph the temperature – partly to prove to ourselves it really was over 36º – and this from the thermometer installed on the … Continue reading
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blooms out back
The back patch gardens are left to take care of themselves with very little attention given, now that we’re constantly heading to the allotment. But that’s not a problem really, as most of the back patch planting is of perennials … Continue reading
second brood of sparrow fledglings
It’s been variable in London – spells of cool weather, then hot and humid, then more cool and rain. Today started with sun but quickly turned overcast then wet. We’d been tricked by the forecast for rain later in the … Continue reading
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