Happy St. Patrick’s Day! And if anyone reading this follows the rugby … what a brilliant end to an outstanding career for Brian O’Driscoll. Of course it’s disappointing that Wales didn’t make it for a record 3rd time in a…
Gradually Going Bonkers in Barnet
All women are bonkers some … some are just more bonkers than others
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Allotment update
Did you think the worst floods ‘since records began’ would keep me from my allotment? I have been wobbling over there every week – tidying up my paths, weeding etc. It’s been quite nice being on my own over there…
2014 – the year of the Horse and Project Completer
I can’t believe how long it has been since I last posted – and in the meantime Wordpress has changed it’s format and I have to get used to it all over again. So 2013 limped out, I went…
End of week one.
If you’ve logged in looking for the before and after shots … you’ll be disappointed. It’s another two weeks to go until the diet is OVER. But at the end of the first week I lost 4 lbs (equivalent to…
Posted in Allotment, Challenges
The Heat Wave
Here in the UK if the temperatures hit 30c – and those roasting levels continue for about 10 days it’s called a Heat Wave. Those of you who live with those temps all the time are a little bemused by…
Posted in Allotment, Challenges
And Death Shall Have No Domain
I was at a Memorial Service on Saturday. It had been a long time since I really knew the man whose service it was, but his widow was one of my mother’s closest friends and my youngest sister’s Godmother. When…
Breezy weekend
Well the bean poles are stable and the first row of beds all planted up with spinach, chard, purple and white sprouting broccoli, courgettes and pumkins – then all safely netted off against the fattest pigeons I have ever seen.…
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