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• 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