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• Signs of Spring: February 2014

  

  Despite a really strong wind, the sky is blue, the sun is shining and more important it is NOT RAINING!!  I grabbed the moment this morning to check the garden... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2014 GARDENING, HOME

• Back in the Blogging Saddle

  

  Funny how things happen. All of a sudden just in the last week several people have mentioned that they miss reading my blog. It’s been 3 months since I... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2014 HOME

• A Visit to the Cotswolds and the Prettiest Villages

  

  When you say to anyone, “I’m off to The Cotswolds for a short break”, the usual response is “How lovely, you are lucky, it’s so wonderful there”. It is also a... Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2013 TRAVEL

• Osborne House, IoW and Colius Overload

  

  I recently had a wonderful and happy weekend on the Isle of Wight with my cousin. We took the bus on Saturday morning to Osborne House, owned by English... Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• End of Month View – September 2013

  

  I am almost too embarrassed to even write an End of Month View this time.  Why?  Well, I have been through a garden weary stage, knitting seemed more appealing. Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Visitors Appreciate Explanations: Tyntesfield, Somerset

  

  My fellow garden blogger Helen at Patient Gardener put into words in her last blog post exactly how I am beginning to feel about visiting and writing about... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Dear Friend and Gardener: Book Review

  

  Beth Chatto (b. 1923) is a British plantswoman and famous for her garden in Essex, which she began to make from scratch in 1960. Read more

  Posted on 24 September 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• An Open Day at Sarah Raven’s Garden, Perch Hill

  

  Deep in the East Sussex countryside and down some steep, exceptionally narrow country lanes we found Sarah Raven’s garden at Perch Hill. It was their Open Day o... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day – September 2013

  

  The days are getting chilly now and the nights even colder, autumn is around the corner and the blooms in the garden are on the wane.  They are slowly being... Read more

  Posted on 15 September 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Embarking on a New Project

  

  It’s funny how an idea can snowball.We have a great wool shop in the town called The Wool Bar, it sells wonderful interesting wools, has unusual patterns and... Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Weekly Photo Challenge: Sea

  

  With great a sense of happiness when I saw that the challenge this week on the WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge is SEA. Living by the sea, my media library is... Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2013 CULTURE, PHOTOGRAPHY

• End of Month View – August 2013

  

  I missed the July EOMV (End of Month View) and in a determined effort not to miss August as well, this post is better late than never. Read more

  Posted on 02 September 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Wordless Wednesday: Dahlias

  

  © Hurtlingtowards60 and Hurtled to 60 and Now Beyond ©AarTeePhotography; Unauthorized use and/or duplication of photographs without express and written... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Weekly Photo Challenge: Focus

  

  It’s been a while now since I have had any inspiration to write a post on the blog.  Mainly this is due to a very severe adverse reaction to the last lot of... Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Do I Really Need A Lawn?

  

  When starting to write this post, fortune would have it that earlier this week on Radio 4 there was a program called “What is the point of… Lawns”. Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Wordless Wednesday 7 August 2013

  

  © Hurtlingtowards60 and Hurtled to 60 and Now Beyond ©AarTeePhotography; Unauthorized use and/or duplication of photographs without express and written... Read more

  Posted on 07 August 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• I Love My Patio – 8 Weeks On

  

  On the 20th June I wrote a post called “I Love My Patio”. Then there was a lot of promise of things to come and wonderings if plants would flower as well as las... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• This Too Shall Pass

  

  This last chemo session, only the second one of 12 has been wave after wave of relentless nausea during the last week.  It has ranged from what felt like mild... Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Garden by Driftwood, Poem by Masefield

  

  Last week I went with my blogger friend,  Charlotte, The Galloping Gardener, to a gem of a garden in Seaford, East Sussex.Driftwood Garden is regularly opened b... Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2013 GARDENING, HOME

• Wordless Wednesday 24 July 2013

  

  © Hurtlingtowards60 and Hurtled to 60 and Now Beyond ©AarTeePhotography; Unauthorized use and/or duplication of photographs without express and written... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2013 GARDENING, HOME