Category: Gardening

A partly-knitted sock in purple yarn is sitting on a wooden table. In the background is the cake of purple yarn and an orange mug.

Seven days

The days do pass quickly, don’t they?  Not so small daughter’s school broke up for a week off yesterday – not sure that she’ll even want to get out of bed next week after...

Christine is digging in the garden with a garden fork. She is wearing battered brown boots, black trousers and a pair of grey, green and blue striped socks

Easter Monday

I really love a Bank Holiday Monday and as today is Easter Monday, that’s exactly what this is.  I love that feeling of the weekend being extended and although I know that it will...

Seven days (nearly)

You wouldn’t think it’s only been a week (well, just less) since I last posted on the blog – I came to look at my photos for this week’s post and there are LOADS...

A blue patterned duvet cover on a washing line against a blue and white cloud sky

Spring Saturday

The sun was shining yesterday morning and it was wonderful!  There’s nothing quite like that feeling of waking up on a Saturday with the sun shining through the curtains, knowing that you don’t have...

An ominous-looking sky of dark clouds above a roof top

Weather warnings

Hello, and here we are again – another weekend and another storm whatever-it’s-called has wreaked havoc across the country.  We have so many of these storms these days, don’t we?  I hope that you...

A sign at RHS Harlow Carr against a stone building and a blue sky.

RHS Harlow Carr

It was a few weeks ago now (Blogtober Day 21, to be exact!) that I drove from Winwick across the moors to Skipton to pick up my lovely friend Lucy for a visit to...