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toil & cares rewarded
I cut this vase of flowers on Sunday afternoon for my beloved, and we took the photo this morning (Tuesday 12 May). Both this delicately fragrant long-stemmed pink rose and the blue flag iris are growing along the railway path … Continue reading
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chilly days and first harvests
It’s been quite cool – with threats of morning frosts and daytime temperatures of 10 degrees or so. Which feels chilly after days in the 20s, but fairly sunny all the same – despite the strong gale force winds. Between … Continue reading
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water woes
The water stopped working at the plots. Major problem. Mains leak and issues with connections, which go back way outside the gates to the bottom of a main Hampstead road. Oh my! Major problems – ‘specially since I used up … Continue reading
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time for process.. progress.. growth
There’s debate that time is unreal. It is the element we live within, as if within an ambient environment, and yet when we turn to try to define it… we are as stumped today as was Augustine in his day. … Continue reading
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what two weeks looks like..
Coronavirus challenges us – each and every one, all over the world, in all our various situations and lifestyles – how to measure time. There’s a nice song I recall that has a line about measuring hours with teaspoons… Some … Continue reading
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a rose is a rose is a rose?
The roses are coming into colour. The damask rose is already in full bloom. With the heat of the sun the scent of these gorgeous long-stemmed red roses is positively intoxicating! The smaller hot pink rose at the top corner … Continue reading
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birds & butterflies
Although the mornings and evenings are cool in this first week of May, the days are returning to heat. We continue to live a little in fear of frost – which would wipe out our courgette and tomato planted into … Continue reading
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pond life & other updates
Life abounds in a dizzying degree of diversity. As usual, the robin rules the roost – and yesterday dive bombed me upon arrival, so close I could feel the swoosh of wind as it flew past my head. Maybe Robin’s … Continue reading
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meet Felicity Fiacre, garden watchwoman
Introducing Felicity Fiacre, our new garden watch-woman. She’s there to guard the raspberry, gooseberry and vegetable beds. She’s tucked into the spot where previously we had the bird bath (which has now been relocated to the very bottom corner of … Continue reading
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newcomer to woods
Michelob gifted the woods with a new plant – cytisus praecox. Otherwise known as ‘Broom’. It’s spring flowering, with long bracts of buttery yellow blossom. To me it looks almost like a softer paler yellow non-prickly gorse. Like all spring … Continue reading
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Philosophising... 