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I made a fairy garden!
Yes, I finally got it finished – we now have a fairy garden in the front and it lights up at night. You may remember a while ago I mentioned I’d started making some furniture for my fairy garden and I was having problems with the pond and the neighbour’s cat? Well the cat broke…
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Growing carrots using the egg tray method – the honest results
I saw this method on YouTube and thought I’d give it a go. I put up a post previously about how I set it all up but in case you’ve forgotten, I’ll give you a quick reminder. Today they look like this: So was it a success? Actually, no it wasn’t but the failure is…
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We have a toad – and I’m too excited about it
This isn’t the post I was going to do for today but I’m so excited I had to share my news. We were up at the allotment today, working hard and I was pulling weeds at one side of the fence. The lady in the plot next door doesn’t weed much so it gets difficult.…
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Little time for rest in the summer
Please tell me I’m not the only one finding it hard to ‘stop’ in the summer! Weeds keep growing, plants need tended to, grass needs cut, house to be cleaned, days out, teenager to keep busy….on and on it goes. Hard work looks like it’s paying off on the plot though: For the first time…
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I accidentally lied – and rain boobs!
You may be wondering what on earth I lied about and what the heck are rain boobs, so allow me to explain. Hear me out. A while ago I put up a post saying it would be the last polytunnel update. If you don’t know the situation, I built a DIY polytunnel out of scrap…
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Allotment improvements
We’ve been working pretty hard in the allotment and the progress is really beginning to show, at least to me it is. This is how the brassica area looked before our two visits last week: A big job and there is a third row to the right which you can’t quite see but believe me,…
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One day in a photo gallery
I did a few things yesterday, from picking fruit, walking the dog and getting swooped by some seriously aggressive seagulls so I thought I’d share some of it with you. Firstly, the garden. There have been a lot of summer raspberries which have been great and I am finally getting bees visiting the garden. I…
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The growing, the harvesting and then comes the processing
It’s one thing to grow your own but I can’t be the only one who finds processing what I’ve grown takes so much of my time at this bountiful time of the year. Dearest Son and I have managed more trips to the allotment than usual this week and have been catching up on some…
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Daily Prompt #8: Dogs or Cats?
I haven’t done many of these daily prompt thingys but when I saw this I felt compelled to answer for a couple of reasons and one of them is war. I have been a cat person all my life. Grew up with them, had 2 when I lived alone etc etc and now not only…
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It’s the little things
Don’t you find that day to day, it’s the little things which bring you the most happiness? To be clear here, I’m putting family and health to the side as they are pretty major things in my mind. I’m also not including wealth – have you seen how miserable the truly wealthy look these days?…
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The plants, me or the neighbour’s cat?
Who has been the most ‘productive’ this weekend? I hadn’t planned on doing a ton of stuff this weekend as I just wanted to relax after finishing the home-schooling but apparently, I can’t sit still. I’ve been doing some sewing/repairing/knitting of various things but I’ll show you them at a later time when I actually…
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Garden herbs and summer fruits – the harvest begins
At last I am able to get out into the garden and start bringing in some of our home-grown goodies. Today, I got a load of herbs which I will probably dry although I used some fresh for the soup I made for dinner. My sage is growing really well which I love but the…
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