During the week, our time together as a family is limited. During the day there is school and work. The time between the end of school and bedtime becomes more precious. For a while today, the children and I were in the same part of the garden Each of us […]
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A tulip full of memories
We have only one tulip in our garden. We always have just one tulip in the garden and it is the same one. My Grandmother planted it up in a pot along with grape hyacinths. Every year the tulip rises up like a phoenix and bursts out in a beautiful […]
Read moreEarth castles, or maybe not.
It has been really dry. I’m struggling to remember when we last had rain. I’m not sure where the April Showers are, but the earth is really dry and dusty. Of course this has given us the chance to get out and prepare the vegetable beds. The seedlings are coming […]
Read moreBlossom bookmarks and fragrance testing.
As we walked home from school, today, we were discussing how many different yellow flowers we passed. There were daffodils, celandine, dandelions, crocuses and tulips. We also noticed that there seemed to be a surge of white flowers also coming through, almost like the second wave of spring. We spotted […]
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