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• Prime Location

  

  Now we are all told all the time that location is everything. Are we living in the right street, in the right town? Are we near to the right schools? Most... Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Tracks

  

  I often have a song stuck in my head which I don't think is that unusual. Sometimes it is something I have heard on the radio, sometimes it has popped into my... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• End of Month Review - January 2013

  

  I am now in the habit of looking at last year's End of Month Review for the appropriate month before starting writing this year's. Last year I commented that... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• "All My Beautiful Wickedness"

  

  "I'm melting! melting! Oh, what a world! What a world! Who would have thought a good little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness? Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• A Tale of Two Sams

  

  Sam's Song at the Doorstep of Cirit Ungol In western lands beneath the Sun the flowers may rise in Spring, the trees may bud, the waters run, the merry finches... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• A Visitor in the Snow

  

  The predicted snowfall arrived over the last few days. The temperature has plummeted and the travel chaos has commenced. Yes, it is winter proper now. There... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Gelid

  

  A Winter Pond Sting-chill of winter matt – Her frozen hand caressed us all; And calming bleach of silence Pressed upon the rustic scape To leave an ashen... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Reasons to Be Cheerful

  

  Anything that makes me start singing 'Reasons to be Cheerful, part 3' has to be a good thing in its own right. I was a teenager when this song was released, I... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• On the Edge of the Ellipse

  

  or hello Gary Oval So a couple of weeks ago I wrote a piece about the top end of my garden. I explained that it was not an area I concentrated on very much and... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• "And What in Heaven's Name Brought You to Casablanca?"

  

  “Renault: And what in heaven's name brought you to Casablanca? Rick: My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters. Renault: The waters? What waters? We're in... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Blackberry Tales 5 - The Boy Who Waited

  

  When I first moved into this house there were two things sitting right outside the back door. Once was an ivy-covered hump* and the other was a bird bath. Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• End of Month Review - December 2012

  

  So 2012 has finished its turn and the end is truly in sight for it. The minutes are ticking away inexorably to the tolling of the bell that means a year ends an... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2012 GARDENING, HOME

• The Prize

  

  For some reason when I win prizes, which is really not that often, the prize tends to involve fruit. I have a real knack for winning hampers of fruit. Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2012 GARDENING, HOME

• Late One Christmas Eve....

  

  or the tale of tomato soup Why tomato soup? Actually, lets go back a step, it is a specific brand of tomato soup where the variety has 56 other siblings. Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2012 GARDENING, HOME

• The Shortest Day

  

  It turns out that I probably look forward to the shortest day of the year more than any other. More than my birthday (I’ve gone beyond looking forward to... Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2012 GARDENING, HOME

• The Christmas Wreath

  

  or good things come in purple packages So it was a usual sort of day when I received an email asking me if I would like to a feature a Sarah Raven product on... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2012 GARDENING, HOME

• Life on the Margin

  

  or the back country. I was going to call this post ‘the Wasteland’, I thought about tying it into TS Eliot’s poem of the same name. Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2012 GARDENING, HOME