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Life

It’s been a while Friends, how are you? It feels like ages since we spoke – ok I know it’s only been a few days but it feels like longer to me. I’ve got some allotment news for you first of all. On Monday, we managed a visit to the plot and got working on…
Sharon
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Showing the front garden some LOVE!

I’ve been waiting all week to get to work on the garden at home and today was the day! Most of this will be pictures to show you the before and after. I’m not finished yet as I have to get some more woodchip but you’ll certainly get the idea of what I’m trying to…
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Sometimes the job just needs done

There comes a point when you can no longer put off a job which you know, and have known for ages, needs done. In this case, that job was the horror of the cupboard under the kitchen sink. It’s one of those areas we all use daily and things just get taken out and thrown…
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Recognising seedlings when weeding – parsnips

It’s an important part of weeding – recognising plants you want to keep when they are at seedling stage and this week it was the parsnips I was weeding. The area I had to clear had the little bit of the onion patch on one side which I hadn’t quite finished, and the patch with…
Sharon
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Decluttering and Re-organising
I keep hearing about how everyone is going decluttering crazy and it’s a topic I want to delve into deeper at a later date. However, this week I find I haven’t just been decluttering, I have been re-organising, and I have to tell you it does several jobs all at once: I don’t think I…
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Time to take down the Christmas decorations – and I don’t like it!
The time finally came to take down the Christmas decorations and get the house back to ‘normal’. I don’t like to remove everything on the one day for a few reasons: The first 2 speak for themselves but I’m perplexed by the third one. Its the same every year but I don’t have a name…
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Gardening in January
I’ve been trying to nip out to the garden for 20 or 30 minutes regularly to sort out the borders at the front. I ordered a pack of bulbs when they were on sale before Christmas – 160 of them, so I’ve been sticking them in everywhere! I took pictures to show you what I’ve…




