Ah, the joys of March. My calendar for this month contained two of my favourite phrases, announcing the Vernal Equinox, last weekend, and the start of ‘British Summer Time’ this weekend. British Summer Time really just refers to an alteration in…
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A couple of days ago I grappled with a garden shredder, an experience I’ve previously managed to avoid. It had seemed like a good idea, for two reasons. Firstly, that I had a huge pile of green waste, mainly evergreen and…
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The end of February: the time I’ve always noticed the most the days lengthening out, the afternoon daylight encroaching into evening. Hurrah for that. I try to like winter, but I don’t. I loathe it. The cold, the dark, the…
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Yes, I do have a photo of a daffodil flowering in January. Cut from the garden on 31 December 2015, and pictured here in bloom in its vase. Narcissus ‘Cragford’ I think. I’ve known roses to be in bloom…
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In a dusty old folder I found this print-out of an email from 15 years ago, when I first submitted this website’s URL to the Yahoo! search engine. I thought I’d share this historic document, in case it’s of…
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At this time in 2001, a full fifteen years back in the misty and distant past, I was getting a website ready for launching onto the new and really exciting platform of the worldwide web. I invested weeks of…
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