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That will warm your cockles!

“I just wondered” Mr G slipped into the conversation “what are you like at shifting hay bales?”  “I don’t know, I’ve never tried.” “Just popping out for a couple of hours, cover for me.”  “Of course.”

For some reason I am noticing a lot of seed pods this year.  This is Pittosporum tenuifolium and I don’t recall ever having seen fruit on this large shrub (with designs on being a tree).  Perhaps in previous years I have been diverted by some exciting autumnal event, although I can’t imagine what that couldContinue reading “Fire Eaters”

Better than before?  Perhaps more welcome.

We were stood up by the dregs of Tropical Storm Henri today, at the last moment he veered off to the east.  This is definitely not a complaint, an unexpected dry day is a joy indeed.  We celebrated at Max’s house by shifting piles of garden detritus up and down his garden’s steep slopes usingContinue reading “Fire”

I am generally a little sniffy about TV garden makeovers.  To me instant gardening is the antithesis of what it is all about, in fact it may very well be one of those oxymorons.  In fact I would go as far as to say that the words “instant” and “gardening” should never appear the sameContinue reading “Farm Force”

Mr G gathers in the squash harvest.  Luckily there was just one of these mammoth fruit to transport to the barn for storage.  Pumpkin pie anyone?

I do work, honestly I do.  In fact I was working this very morning.  OK, so it was at Lord and Lady Mantle’s garden on Exmoor, driving across the North Devon countryside in the morning sunshine was a joy.  It also wasn’t exactly a chore working in their blossoming garden, everything we have planted inContinue reading “Another Tough Day at the Office”