Plan ahead and plant those chillies
It is a day of magic and celebration. I’ve had a glimpse of the one thing that makes all the difference in my garden. You may be wondering why my kid’s playhouse is featured so prominently well, it’s because today, for the first time in almost three months, the sun poked over the neighbour’s fence and [...]
A January Spring
As I look out over my bare soil the opportunity to create anew brings great excitement. Spring begins in my mind on a sunny day in January when I start to imagine the crops I can sow this year and the fruit and vegetables I can pick. I see all that empty earth stretching out [...]
Strawberries in October – who would think it?
It’s a good time to take a fresh look at the garden now that the season is changing. We’ve had a spectacular few days of sunshine but the glories of summer are now past and all the signs of autumn are here. All the recent warm weather has had an unexpected effect on the strawberries [...]
Spring planting
It’s good to be green… It’s that time of year again where we all realise we should have planted our seeds for vegetables at least a month ago and leaves us to think whether we have left it too late for this year. The news is good; you are not too late if you get [...]
Green Challenge – cutting the shopping bill in half.
I have discovered that one of our biggest expenses Image by Getty Images via Daylife over the month is food shopping bill and I reckoned with a little effort I could reduce it so I set myself a challenge. Could I shop for 2 weeks on 1 week’s money? Unlike some I don’t have a [...]
All that jazz – All in A Day
If I sat down and really thought about what I could achieve in a single day, I might be able to come up with some interesting challenges that I think might be possible…. but record a whole album? Well that would probably not be one of them, even if I had the requisite talents. But [...]
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