Today was not a good day for potting up the liners we bought from Lineside Nursery on Monday. It was cold, it was very windy so much so that I was slightly concerned that the polythene cover on the tunnel

At last we have enjoyed two or three days of high pressure with sunny calm daylight hours and frosty nights. I almost feel slightly sunburnt! There is much more incentive to get on and do some jobs when the weather

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 sorts of parts of the body which ache. Many people of a similar age have

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. My mother died and then my father got ill but fortunately is a lot better

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 days last week which made everyone feel better and I felt encouraged to get on

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 this laptop is coming to the end of its life and is so slow to

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 scented and preferably disease free so, back in the autumn, I started looking on-line at

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 off but with the perceptible lengthening of the daylight it has suddenly hit me that

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 and spend half a day pottering at the nursery. The weather was suddenly milder, temps

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 inclined to write a new post. The weather has been a mixed bag of grey