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Lucy's Cottage: Happy Halloween Everyone
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Saturday, 31 October 2015. Fire lit, pumpkin carved, peppermint tea steeping and a good book to read :). Apart from walking the dogs and carving pumpkins (I did one for our friends too), I've done NOTHING today. I feel guilty, but less tired as a result. Tonight we're having food from the freezer for our dinner and I'm going to do some warm spiced apple juice as neither of us wants to drink alcohol this evening. The fire is roaring and I'm ready to hibernate! Happy Halloween everyone,. Days of Quiet Refl...
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The Gardener's Rest: January 2015
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The vaguely green-fingered thoughts of a rambling rose. Or rather faded greens and browns. On Boxing Day we had quite an amount of snow which stuck around til New Year's Day. Then came the winds. The first battering came and went with little disruption to the garden. The second time round we were not so lucky and lost part of the fence in the front garden. We will need to replace the whole run. In the raised bed, tiny crimson shoots are emerging from Bumblebee's rhubarb crown. With one exception. Win...
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Lucy's Cottage: November 2015
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Tuesday, 24 November 2015. One Cold November Day. This morning we wrapped up warm and took the dogs to Cod Beck Reservoir at Osmotherley - one of their favourite spots. While we shivered in the wind the dogs swam in the freezing cold water and had a ball of a time. It was good to breathe in the fresh air, smell the damp pine needles and watch the geese swimming and trying to avoid the dogs! Below are some pictures of our garden which I took this morning. The Autumn-flowering "mums" are glorious:). Today ...
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Lucy's Cottage: October 2015
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Saturday, 31 October 2015. Fire lit, pumpkin carved, peppermint tea steeping and a good book to read :). Apart from walking the dogs and carving pumpkins (I did one for our friends too), I've done NOTHING today. I feel guilty, but less tired as a result. Tonight we're having food from the freezer for our dinner and I'm going to do some warm spiced apple juice as neither of us wants to drink alcohol this evening. The fire is roaring and I'm ready to hibernate! Happy Halloween everyone,. Neither the acupun...
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Lucy's Cottage: November
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Sunday, 1 November 2015. The tree outside our front door. Golden light is turning grey,. Mists begin to rule the day. Bare the trees their branches lift,. Clouds of dead leaves earthwood drift. Through the field the farmer goes,. Seeds of ripened corn he sows,. Trusts the earth will hold it warm,. Shelter it from cold and harm. For he knows that warmth and light. Love there, hidden from our sight,. And beneath a sheltering wing. Deep below new life will spring. 1 November 2015 at 07:06. I sort of have a ...
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The Gardener's Rest: February 2015
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The vaguely green-fingered thoughts of a rambling rose. It's all about the buds. This evergreen clematis seems to have done well so far through the winter and is now putting on new growth. We planted it late last year so perhaps this year we will be able to train it to cover the framework we have created around the water butts. Not the best of shots, but buds are making themselves known on the largest of the hydrangeas in the front garden. There are buds on the other two, smaller hydrangeas too. Around t...
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The Gardener's Rest: September 2014
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The vaguely green-fingered thoughts of a rambling rose. Younger, all photographs were captured on a film, taken to be developed and then returned, often with little stickers on the duff ones suggesting what might have caused the failed capture. These days of course if you take a bum shot, you can just delete it and have another go. I bought this little two up two down in early December, so not a lot of gardening was even contemplated until the following summer. And along came my love of clematis. It ...
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The Gardener's Rest: September 2013
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The vaguely green-fingered thoughts of a rambling rose. In another couple of weeks it will be dark when I leave for work. In the meantime I shall enjoy waking to this view while I can. In the house, the orchids are still going strong with others beginning to join in the party. This is the orchid I saved from work last year - it has 16 blooms this year so I must be doing something right. The Toad thinks the centre of the flowers look light a bird in flight. The 'red' hydrangea we brought with us did darke...
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The Gardener's Rest: April 2014
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The vaguely green-fingered thoughts of a rambling rose. Now the raised bed is weed free, Bumblebee's next task is to sow his seeds. He's learned how to make a seed drill to make weeding easier (weeds do not generally grow in straight lines you see), and to tip a few seeds into his hand before taking a pinch. Sowing into each drill, marked with a waterproof label. And using the back of the hoe to cover his seeds. Everything gets a good watering, including the plants in the new birch bed. New addition....
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Lucy's Cottage: July 2015
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Monday, 27 July 2015. Today I'm feeling pretty rotten. I have a bad cold. So I decided to cheer myself up by taking some photos of some of our mustard yellow treasures. It is one of my favourite colours. I'm hoping to feel better and get back to proper blogging soon. Sunday, 19 July 2015. Camping in the Dales. Monday, 13 July 2015. Seashells and pebbles from Highcliffe. My beloved china terrier :). Some library books I took out last week. Another library book . Projects from the Brooches and Pins book.