Tracing Rainbows

The side garden round the raised bed is a bit of a desert. The grass is brown and crispy, there are a few determined dandelions showing thei...

The potato plants were looking awfully sad - and it is  the middle of July, so I felt I should harvest them.  It is not difficult when they ...

 Rosie adores the Studio Ghibli Cat purse which her dad brought back from a trip abroad. It has suffered of late- it is rather grubby, and s...

No, not this sort of Ewok, I mean the Egyptian Walking Onions from Kirsten. They have been quite splendid this year, rampant across the gard...

On Friday, Kirsten posted about the few broad beans she had harvested which formed part of her lunch. On Sunday I was able to harvest one y...

Julian gave me some little resin models of Sir David A  to guard my orchids in the bathroom. On his birthday, [David, not Julian] I decided ...

The EWOKs [Egyptian Walking Onions from Kirsten] have gone crazy in some corners of the garden this summer. Bobs ShedMen have had a few of t...

Lenny Henry once asked "What are 'occasional' tables doing the rest of the time?" A good question**. When we first met, Bo...

I love the signs of spring everywhere - the 'volunteer plant' primula which has randomly popped up in the back garden, the buds on t...

They've dealt with my wheelie bins, that is! When we got Cornerstones in 2009. we had two bins - regular, and recycling. The regular one...

Tuesday was a pleasant day and for the first time this year, the whirligig dryer went up in the back garden. Always a cheerful sign, spring ...

  Two years ago, on my birthday, Steph, Gaz and the boys sent me a corn plant from Bloom and Wild . It has thrived in the lounge, and doubl...

My orchids are spending the winter on the bathroom windowsill [waiting, like Eliza Doolittle, for spring to creep over] If you look closely,...

The word   jade    has three different definitions -  A verb,  jade,   meaning to wear out, leading to the adjective jaded -   exhausted, la...

 My apple peeler  is still at my friend's house. Her family are using it daily and eating more apples than usual. The youngest particula...