Posted By Judith on 8th July 2017
After the shenanigans of last week with the kettles, candlesticks and mirrors, not to mention the decorating, I was hoping this week would be a little quieter.
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Posted By Judith on 2nd July 2017
Last Sunday I looked at the ‘week ahead’ weather forecast and my heart sank. Rain. I haven’t been feeling very well for several weeks now, but at least when the sun shines I can go outside. The idea of a week of day-time TV was enough to push me over the edge, so I decided to stop being a wimp and decorate the little bedroom.
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Posted By Judith on 24th June 2017
No I haven’t been afflicted with a touch of the Lance Corporal Joneses, it’s just that I suddenly noticed the other day that the ‘Solomons Seal’ that were looking so elegant and magnificent a few weeks ago are now looking decidedly sad.
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Posted By Judith on 16th June 2017
Yesterday I bit the bullet and began to weed my ant infested flower border. By the time I’d had enough the back of my hands were red and blotchy and burned, just like a nettle sting.
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Posted By Judith on 10th June 2017
No, I’m not talking about Theresa May’s decision to call a snap general election last Thursday but my decision to buy some mail order plants.
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Posted By Judith on 6th June 2017
When you come to think about it ‘grass’ is everywhere. Gardens, parks, traffic roundabouts, church yards, sports fields, roadside verges, in fact it’s hard to go anywhere that doesn’t have close proximity to ‘grass’ of some kind.
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Posted By Judith on 30th May 2017
My Spring bulb flower border that brings me so much joy at the beginning of the year is fast turning into a nightmare. It needs weeding.
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Posted By Judith on 26th May 2017
Well I might have started off with around 160 seedlings, but I’m afraid that’s not how many plants I’m going to finish with.
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Posted By Judith on 21st May 2017
In 1986 we bought a house on Willowfield Drive in Halifax. It had a decent sized garden and it was there that we did our first ‘proper’ gardening.
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Posted By Judith on 17th May 2017
‘Events’ in Binbrook are a bit like buses, you wait ages for one to come along and then two arrive together, and so it was on April 9th, the day of the bike race when we also had a vintage car rally pass through the village.
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