We are getting old!! Between us we have clocked up 134 years. Some jobs mysteriously take much longer to do and then there are all ...

After almost a year of not adding anything to this blog I have at last returned. There are many reasons for this lack of input ...

I haven't written here for a while but that doesn't mean I haven't been working over the last few weeks. We had some lovely sunny ...

I haven't looked at my blog for a few weeks partly because the only responses I get are of the spam variety and partly because ...

There was a gap in one of the rose borders so the obvious thing was to order some new roses. I knew they must be ...

In spite of very variable weather I have managed to get quite a lot done on and off this month. True, I've had some time ...

After having many days od sitting around either at home or visiting relatives it made a wonderful change to get out into the fresh air ...

After a couple of weeks of getting something like 50 spam comments each day it suddenly seems to have stopped which means I feel more ...

The weekend was perfect for working in the garden, fairly mild, hardly any wind and no rain. I've tended to give too many plants the ...

Some years ago a friend of mine gave me a piece of the giant scabious which I dobbed in the yellow border without much thought ...

The weather has been ideal for gardening over the last few days and there has been a sense of urgency to get as much done ...

Often, when I get to work, I have no clear plans for the day ahead. It can be difficult to organise jobs when the weather ...