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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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A talking bird, a giant bunny, and recovering gardens – Gardens & Wildlife
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8230;it's a beautiful world out there. A talking bird, a giant bunny, and recovering gardens. June 3, 2015. Bull; 48 Comments. Eighteen months ago my back garden was an utter dust bath! What a difference 18 months and a lot of hard work has made! I must say I’m thrilled to see how it’s developing. Now that I’ve FINALLY removed all of the horrible hedging in the front garden, alongside of the railings, I feel the same as I did when the back was destroyed….another HUGE challenge! To the left of the courtya...
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Rolling down my garden: August 2015
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Pear and chocolate jam. Beans 14kg (30 lbs). Blackberries 25kg (55 lbs). Cucumbers 10kg (22 lbs). Peppers 2kg (4 lbs). Pears 13kg (28 lbs). Potatoes 20kg (44 lbs). Tomatoes 10kg (22 lbs). Sunday, August 23, 2015. Few weeks ago I was writing about mysteriously eaten lettuce and beans. The soil around the carrots was full of small feet marks. When I first saw the soil and my carrots I thought maybe my 2 pests were busy playing and pulled them out. But they wouldn't eat the leaves. Especially be...Also I've...
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Hoping for the best but fearing the worst | quitegifted
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Gardening in a small space. Hoping for the best but fearing the worst. September 1, 2013. When we left for our holiday last Saturday, the cat was packed off to a cattery and I’d done all I could to prepare the garden for us not to be around. By Sunday evening I was suffering from separation anxiety! We spent our week in Somerset, near Burnham on Sea in a lodge on a farm. If I share some photos, I can write less. The view from our kitchen window. Oh well, back to normality. September 1, 2013 at 12:54 pm.
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The big Welsh leek and the little French chef | Allotted Earth
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Musings from an allotment. Laquo; The celebrations continue…as does the rain. The big Welsh leek and the little French chef. Posted June 27, 2012 by allottedearth in Le Manoir aux Quat'Saison. Tagged: Le Manoir aux Quat' Saison. Le Manoir aux Quat’ Saison. The day started with a talk by Medwyn on how he started out growing show-quality vegetables before going on to win 10 (or was it finally 11? There is a lovely Elizabethan knot-style herb garden where herbs for tea infusions are grown. As you wander aro...
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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 Tropical Border And How I Learned To Hate Soaker Hose | The Anxious Gardener
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A Gardening Blog. Mostly. The Gardens And Me. The Tropical Border And How I Learned To Hate Soaker Hose. July 21, 2015. Like last year, I gambled on a fine spring by planting up the tropical border early. In mid-April, to a comb-and-tissue-paper fanfare, I dug up the big red banana (. From its winter-greenhouse-home and wheeled it into position. And then I did the same for the ‘small’ one. Within a day or two of planting, temperatures took a dive and I gave the red bananas a little protection. I hadnR...
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January | where the journey takes me
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Where the journey takes me. Crafting a simple, sustainable and organised life. Month 1 – Finances. Below are the necessary tasks to keep me on budget. Set up a savings plan. Check and enter all daily expenses – no matter what. Plan a budget and stick to it. Balance my accounts at the end of the month. Use up and maintain what we already have. Take any returns to shops for a refund. Just John Lewis to do now. Pay in any cheques / Christmas monies. Bag up loose change and take to the bank. Identify areas o...
