Posted in Family, Food, Garden, Happiness, Home on May 11, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Ha! Had my legs, arms and face out all day today, and it’s been a scorcher. Apparently hotter than Ibiza! We’ve put up trellis on the back wall, planted loads, and D has enthused me for vegetable cultivation all over again. He knocked together a raised bed for the Mouse to grub in, out of [...]
Posted in Baby Musings, Garden, Home, Niceness on April 27, 2008 | 8 Comments »
We spent most of today outside; Mouse got muddier and happier and more and more enthused by the whole proceedings. He has the most cunning little watering can and a set of tools of his own, but of course mummy’s are more fun. He went up and down the path with bamboo canes, and to and [...]
Posted in Family, Friends, Garden, Presents, Work on March 16, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Ohh, what a lovely day we had. And Mouse got some truly amazing gifts. A JCB Jnr toolbench and tools, a minature Dyson hoover, a proper big boys bike and stabilisers, a farm set, playdoh, clothes, books and money. He ate his own weight in cake and rolled around on the floor with the dog. [...]
Posted in Family, Food, Garden, Home, TV on March 8, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Oh, the utter, magical and unremitting bliss of being allowed to read the Saturday papers from cover to cover. No ear out for the wails of ‘Mumeeee…’, no schedule, no deadline. No need to do anything, in fact!
We meandered around the shops, I bought the ingredients for a starter I’m contributing to a joint-effort dinner [...]
Posted in Baby Musings, Family, Garden, Home, Sleep on March 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Yes, it’s that time again, it’s….. weekend off!!!!
Sounds right shallow. I don’t mean to say that we’re relieved that we don’t have to look after R this weekend, or that we’re glad to be rid of him, or anything negative at all. Parents everywhere will relate, I’m sure - if you’ve not had enough time [...]
Posted in Garden, Sleep on February 25, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Gorgoeus weekend. Only made more gorgeous by the fact that I got loads of gardening done, the Mouse helped, we all ate ourselves silly and we each got some relaxation in! Simple ingredients in a classic combination.
I’m not drinking at the moment; not because I have run out of drink, but because I just feel [...]
Posted in Baby Musings, Family, Food, Friends, Garden, Work on January 23, 2008 | No Comments »
Great word, hummock. It describes a bump in a lawn that isn’t large enough to be called a hillock but will still rattle your dags when you drive over it on a mower. As a metaphor it could be used to describe parts of a life that are running less than smoothly. As in; ‘How [...]
Posted in Food, Friends, Garden on October 16, 2007 | 2 Comments »
God, I love Autumn, it’s such a fecund time. I know that seems wrong, as it’s Spring and Summer which are supposedly the productive areas of the year, but really, Autumn beats them. It’s the time of final fruition, of produce safely gathered in, and it’s the time to take stock in the garden and [...]
Posted in Garden on September 24, 2007 | No Comments »
The lines are now drawn for a showdown with the garden, that raging colossus of plantlife. Dave the Tree is coming over on Saturday to consult the list I’ve left for him and to price the job, then he’s back on the 21st October to chop and drag away about three tons of unwanted herbage. [...]
Posted in Garden, Home on September 4, 2007 | No Comments »
I love this time of year.
The trees are just on the turn, the garden plants are looking tired and ready for bed, the mornings are cold, really cold and heavy with moisture and the smell of smoke. Bright clear sunshine, slow-moving clouds that sail across like flat bottomed boats. Warm in the sun, cold in [...]
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