I heard all about a new yarn shop in Seasalter which sells Brittany Birch needles and I just feel too ill to want to go there or go into town to fetch the yarn for the Tour de France KAL! I’ve been coming home really tired all week and going to bed early or waking [...]
It is always fun to go to open garden events just to be a bit nosey and find out what people are doing to their gardens and houses. A bit voyeuristic I know but also a good source of cheap plants etc. We had the opportunity for a quick look round the open gardens of [...]
Last weekend was slightly traumatic for reasons I won’t go into and for the last two days I’ve been waking up very late (8am) then running tired. I think I may be a bit virally so it will be early to bed. pao is out visiting a friend so I’ve got the place to myself [...]
We are great advocates of Freecyle having got rid of numerous bits of furniture and odds and ends through them so it was bemusing to find that someone had sheep’s fleece advertised on there. Being the good husband that pao is, he immediately got me to email and we collected two on Sunday. I don’t [...]
Kat with a K is doing the summer reading program again this year and I’ve already finished my first few books of the summer. Summer Reading Program Books 1-6 All by James Herriot: If Only They Could Talk It Shouldn’t Happen to a Vet Let Sleeping Vets Lie Vet in Harness Vets Might Fly Vet [...]
It has been incredibly muggy here so much so I had to get up and go sit in another room with a fan a couple of nights which made it hard to get restful sleep. I think I may have gone slightly mad if I didn’t have my friendly fan. As it is Friday and [...]
We visited St-Nicholas-at-Wade one Sunday because the biennial open gardens event (lots of red there which I posted photos of yesterday) was on and I wanted to see the secret underground chapel which is in someone’s house. We didn’t see many of the gardens because it was hot, muggy and there were lots of people [...]
I haven’t been as active in Project Spectrum this year as I was last year but I saw these flowers during an open gardens event at St Nicholas at Wade and knew they would be perfect for the two months of red-black-metallics. This is probably my favourite combination out of all of them but I [...]
… and a very short blog post today as I’m not sure how well the wireless is coping with intermittent power cuts! There is a huge amount of rain out there and the patio is overflowing – luckily we have better drainage here than we did in the old house. The cats seem ok with [...]
What a difference a few weeks makes! We think our blue tits fledged quite a while ago so we’re watching out to see if the babies come back to our garden again. I think we saw some of them eating peanuts a week or so ago. I planted up a whole bunch of new things [...]