(Mary Rose in garden) Ah, yes. The flurry of letters and notes from school, signalling that half term is upon us once again. Echoing the white blossom falling from the trees in the garden. I imagine teachers clearing their inboxes and crossing off their to-do lists, ready for school to […]
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Pootling – my Sunday photo
(Local drainage, called a rhyne – pronounced reen. Good place to spot kingfishers) Pootling around the little lanes on the Somerset Levels, today. Honestly think I could do this all day. Every day. Before heading home, we stopped at our favourite road side stall, picking up strawberries and asparagus. I […]
Read moreLittle Steps
I am notoriously bad at starting a project and not finishing it. A few slip through the net and make it to the end but most languish. Maybe forever. As my husband can testify, I can walk over unfinished projects, for months, without batting an eyelid. At work once, I […]
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(Stitchwort and Bluebells) Leaning on my spade this weekend, I couldn’t help imagining all the yummy food that would (hopefully) pop up in the raised beds I was working on, given time. I’d added compost to improve the fertility. Sown the seeds. Added water. Nothing else to do, but stand […]
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