The Grand Tour #2: The Sunny Bit
Now for the one bit of my garden that is undeniably Very Sunny Indeed. It is on the south-facing side, …
Category Archives: pond
Ice fishing
Every morning I set off down the frozen garden with a saucepan of steaming, bubbling water in my hand, to …
Netting niggles
Is it my imagination, or are the leaves coming down faster this autumn? We’ve had a week or so of …
How we spent our weekend #3
A bit of an update on the fishpond’s progress… As so often seems to happen, we’ve done it all arse …
How we spent our weekend #2
A little update on progress with the fishpond… This is the Bloke’s department – far too much precision involved for …
How we spent our weekend #1
Have small children clamouring for goldfish and pathological hatred of cleaning out fishtanks… will dig big hole. Having drawn some …
The great thaw begins
Walking down the garden drops of melted hoarfrost are falling from the trees, and for the first time in three …
School lessons
I mentioned some time ago that I’d taken over the school garden. Well, in the way of these things, shortly …
Ducking and diving
This stuff is causing me a right headache at the moment. I’ve never owned a pond that hasn’t suffered with …
Trimming to size
Back to the monster mahonia again yesterday – I came to the conclusion that I’d see what happened after I’d …
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