02 Sep

When I arranged one of my table/trug photos during the week I had completely coincidentally used the colours of the Italian flag...

01 Sep

The thing which is very easy to forget when you go on holiday is that there’s a massive amount of pressure on enjoying yourself and it all being amazing...

21 Aug

I am very excited today, combined with being very busy, very scruffy, still in my pyjamas and justifying to myself that cleaning the house actually keeps me fit, and is basically a work out! Tomorrow I am being taken to Italy for a week by my...

20 Aug

Back in June I posted a piece about the amazing wild flower meadow near my local supermarket...

18 Aug

I was in the local park on Saturday for a friend’s birthday and walking along by the tennis courts we noticed the amazing display of Ornamental Artichokes. Some of them were turning to seed and only a few were still in flower, but they were still...

16 Aug

I was clearing some things away this morning and my Granny’s old 1963 diary caught my eye...

15 Aug

August is such a strange month in the garden: it’s got half a foot in Summer and half a foot in Autumn. Having had May, June and July where everything goes mad, there has been a definite slowing down. I always think of August as the...

14 Aug

On Tuesday, during our hedgerow car meanderings, I also collected a selection of wild flowers...