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• Harvest Time on the Allotment

  

  This is a mostly very enjoyable post with much to be pleased about and a fabulous dinner for Andrew and me at the end of it. It's all about the harvest bag he... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• I Weep to No Avail....

  

  I am cloaked in hysteria, saddled with despair. My apple is gone.Look do you see it in this photo?No. All because some greedy little bugger of a bird ate the... Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• The Head Gardener

  

  Today* I have lived inside a big dizzily rain cloud, metaphorically and meteorologically. It's not been fun. At these low light levels I'm like a little... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• My Timing Isn't So Great

  

  The stars aligned today, the medication kicked in, that fabled golden orb shone in the blue sky and I felt good.I saw the bench, my cosy hideaway and couldn't... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Sunday Allotment Live!

  

  My smartphone, like most I would suppose, has a feature were you can write yourself notes, reminders or indeed long pieces of prose. Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Obadiah, is That You?!

  

  My skin smells of the earth and my body aches a little in that enjoyable 'I've worked hard' way. A great days work was achieved on the allotment today and I am... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• In Praise

  

  I made it to the allotments (despite my nervousness and hayfever), for the first time I've in goodness knows how many weeks. And boy did it feel good! Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Moment of Clarity

  

  The words come to me on the edge of sleep. They are eloquent and flowing; exactly describing how I feel, what has been happening; and they hold within them the... Read more

  Posted on 09 June 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Happiness on the Plots

  

  Forget any and all of the glumness I spilt forth in my previous post as this past weekend it was all change; sunshine, sustained hard work, planting out, a... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• The Disappoinment of May

  

  May hasn't been going as well as I'd like. Weather wise it is colder and wetter than I can remember compared to the last few years on the plot and somehow it... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• I've Missed You So Much

  

  There is simply too much to catch up on and I don't know where to begin. See previous post! My latest write ups have been eaten by Blogger and are in some sort... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• I Built a Storage Bench

  

  During the winter months some nasty little pilferers took our lovely kidney shaped wooden bench from right off our plot, gah! What with that and the fact that... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Finally Planting the Potatoes

  

  Okay friends, let's talk about the Easter week work we Gaults achieved at the allotments; if I don't get it documented I have a terrible fear I'll forget - I... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Honestly...

  My levels of anxiety are at fever pitch these days. It's pretty much continuous until I fall asleep, exhausted. I do take sedatives but they only make it... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Just So You Know...

  

  I'm working so hard at the allotment plots I haven't the energy to write up what we have achieved over the last days. Watch this space :)Photo taken by Andrew... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• The Greenhouse and Ecotherapy

  

  Well here she is - our beautiful little lean to greenhouse :) Oh how long my poor hubby has waited for a more permanent greenhouse than those little plastic... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• 'The One-Pot Gourmet Gardener' Book Review

  

  It's a fact; I instantly fell in love with 'The One-Pot Gourmet Gardener' as soon as I unwrapped it. The texture of the front cover, the feel of the pages - pur... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Brother Handheld Garden Label Printer

  

  Since my last post it's all gone down hill in the Gault household; we have been hit by a plague of phlegm and my poor hubby has a chest infection. Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• March at the Plots

  

  Saturday saw a great change in my allotment activity; instead of merely writing about it as it seems I have been doing for a while now, I went and worked. Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Spring is Umm... Springing

  

  It's only a wee change but these brighter blue skied days are making me feel a tiny bit happier :) The gorgeous little tete-a-tetes in the back garden cheer my... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2015 GARDENING, HOME