I am still on a quest to try and get my garden in order which I undertook and pledged I’d due during our various COVID pandemic lockdowns of 2020 and 2021. It’s happening – just not as fast as I hoped. I’m still struggling with recognising that there’s 24 hours in a day and only 7Continue reading “Cutting a hedge as a metaphor for learning fundamentals”
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Greenland & Gardening
Dealing with ‘boredom’ as really the pathway to creativity Even though some of my friends go on and on about how I keep using every opportunity to bring this up (ahem), I was super lucky in my youth to be selected to go on a winter expedition to Greenland. I won’t bore you with talesContinue reading “Greenland & Gardening”
Accidental Success
Even though I stated that I was slow in getting my own home garden going, in fact my garden produce is maturing nicely. I would like to take full credit for this – but sadly my upbringing forces me to confess it was accidental and not deliberate. We collect a lot of organic material fromContinue reading “Accidental Success”
Those sayings your Grandparents taught you and Gardening
There’s always a balance when one undertakes a larger project. Whilst mucking around in my garden and getting a bit dispirited that I wasn’t finishing my whole garden in an afternoon’s light work (!), I began to think about the various sayings that we always use and how they can often contradict each other. OfContinue reading “Those sayings your Grandparents taught you and Gardening”