Malvern flowers

May 16, 2012

No… it’s no good. I know we’re a gnat’s breath from plunging into the all-embracing tsunami of Chelsea, but I …

Excuses

April 23, 2012

Well that was a nice break. Oh, all right, I’m lying. It wasn’t a break at all. Actually it was …

February 14, 2012

A humble potato day in a little village hall in the middle of nowhere (pace the residents of Castle Cary) …

February 6, 2012

Far be it for me to set myself up as a gardening soothsayer: about all you can say about the …

January 31, 2012

So here we are then, at the turn of another year; and so I took a look back at what …

January 18, 2012

(with credit to the hubster, who takes a mean photograph)

January 4, 2012

December 31, 2011

As regular readers know, one of my freelance hats is as one half of the news team for the RHS …

December 28, 2011

Seen in our local woodlands: no idea what type, but they were around 10″ across, the size of side plates

November 28, 2011

I got an email the other day pointing out, very politely, that ‘minimalism meets the Villa d’Este’ isn’t an entirely …