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When Every Week Is A Rollercoaster!
Is it meant to be like this? One minute you’re up, the next you’ve been smacked in the face with a smelly dead fish – metaphorically speaking of course. We’re back to homeschool or Smarticus as we call it now as anything with the word ‘school’ in it has been banned by dear son. We’re…
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Lessons Learned From The Garden This Year (so far!)
(The podcast episode associated with this post can be found here: https://www.podbean.com/ep/pb-atvfm-1486cef) A lot of people talk about using the garden as a teacher of life lessons but I’d like to tell you about the actual gardening lessons I learned this year. You’d think after 11 years I’d be an expert by now – sadly…
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For My Garden Bees
I want to take a moment just to say thank you. All your efforts, All your time – not even knowing what you leave behind. Because of you I see fruit, I see flowers, I gather seeds as the season ends. But you don’t know this. So my thank you will be: more flowers. Next…
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Highs and Lows of a busy week
The British summer is well known for consisting of rain and disappointment. It always has been and this year is no different. It would appear ‘climate change’ hasn’t reached our part of Scotland yet! My husband always says we get about 2 and a half full days of sun here with a sprinkling here and…
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The Joy of Making Your Own Wine!
I thought I would share with you one of my more secret hobbies – the wonderful world of wine making. I say its a secret hobby because I don’t advertise I make it or suddenly everyone would want to be my friend – and I’m greedy. Actually it was a neighbour who got me into…
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Weekends and busy days
Do you ever have that feeling where you feel like you’ve done a weeks worth of ‘stuff’ in a couple of days? Its not planned but it happens – and its wonderful! I will start with allotment news: The harvests are coming in now, for which I am immensely grateful. Its easy to think that…
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5 Ways To Find More Joy In Your Back Garden
(The podcast episode for this post can be found here: https://www.podbean.com/ep/pb-jwrvf-14599ef) We are constantly being encouraged to do more outside or spend more time in our gardens – but what do we do when we get there? How can we make our little patch of Heaven on Earth look more ‘Garden of Eden’ and less…
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Highland Allotment Update
Been meaning to get an update or our alllotment done for ages and finally managed to get round to it – in video form! I didn’t do a massive clean up before filming to yes, there are weeds a plenty but hopefully you will enjoy seeing the veg, fruit, herbs and flowers we have growing…
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Pictures from the Garden to Cheer up Your Monday!
I managed to get a few snaps over the weekend inbetween the downpours so I thought I would share them with you to cheer up your Monday: If you can identify the seed heads of the mystery plant I would be grateful. Let me know in the comments below. They did flower in Spring but…
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Making Memories
I remember a woman from my childhood who used to wipe her dogs’ bums after they’d had a poo. She had 2 of them – one Westie (white) and one Scottie (black). I’ve seen so many people with this mix of dogs, I’m starting to think you have to buy them together, like salt and…
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