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At last, something that's easy
Hurrah! It turns out there is one thing that we've been doing right all these years. And that thing is next to effortless. That thing has...
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LEARNING TO GROW
A lockdown garden project
I'm the world's worst gardener, in spite of a nice bit of space at the back of my house and shelves full of gardening books. I'm going to use Lockdown to try to spend time learning to garden and transforming this neglected plot.
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Green and grumpy
Hah! Bet you thought I'd have given up by now. Probably, from many miles away, you heard me swearing. Because weeding is the work of the...
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Still going. Getting harder. 6 April 2020
Apparently much of the UK had beautiful weather at the weekend, to the extent that there were concerns about people breaking lockdown...
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Keeping on keeping on: March 31st 2020
Funny, isn't it, how that first flush of enthusiasm tends to wilt like an over-watered houseplant when it's cold outside and Facebook is...
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Salad days: March 30th 2020
We had a couple of days where the garden turned into Brigadoon. That's because in Berwick, right beside the sea, a couple of sunny days...
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Roots: introducing Mrs Jackson: March 27th 2020
This was going to be titled 'Meet my Mother', but I remembered how she preferred to be addressed formally. Any doctors or nurses who...
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Day 2: March 26th 2020
Oh yes. Now I remember. Excuse No 5. Wow. Gardening is darned expensive. I do remember an old Alexei Sayle gag about how Columbian drug...
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Learning to Grow
Starting, as always, with a raft of excuses: March 25th 2020. I always felt I *should* have been a gardener. I love the idea of pootling...
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