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Monday’s Meander Round the Garden

After all the work we had done at the beginning of the year, our garden is finally starting to take shape again. The weeds have got the upper hand again but hopefully I’ll have more time soon to keep on … Continue reading

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Tuesday’s Totter Round the Garden

Part of my plan to make our garden lower maintenance is to plant more flowering shrubs, they take up a decent amount of room, often flower for a few weeks and still look reasonable for the rest of the year. … Continue reading

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Mondays Meander Round the Garden

It’s been a while since I meandered round the garden, I spent several hours gardening today and I finally feel like it’s starting to look like a garden again instead of a building site. Last weekend I was working on … Continue reading

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Monday’s Meander Round the Garden

It’s a while since I’ve had a meander round the garden, mainly because it’s been more reminiscent of a building site…but I finally think I’m winning! In our quest to future proof our house and garden, I decided the top … Continue reading

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Monday’s Meander Round the Garden

Someone mentioned recently that I haven’t shared photos of my garden recently…that’s because it’s been looking a bit like a builders yard! Last summer I did some serious thinking about our house and our future here. We’ve got to the … Continue reading

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Tuesday’s Totter Round the Garden

The garden has been somewhat neglected this summer, at first it was so wet, I’m a fair weather gardener and this year has been particularly wet…until about two weeks ago, now it’s too hot for me to garden…see, I’m typical … Continue reading

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A Chunky Curlew

I spent Saturday over in Fridaythorpe in East Yorkshire making another chicken wire sculpture. The courses are run by Susan Nichols, she’s great, very patient and everyone leaves with a chicken wire bird that looks like it’s supposed to look! … Continue reading

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Stitching my Garden SAL

Well I’ve finally finished it! Two years in the making but my embroidered garden book is finally finished. To say the least, I’m well chuffed with it 🙂 Three weeks ago I’d just finished making all the pages, I was … Continue reading

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Stitching my Garden SAL

I finally plucked up the courage and started stitching the pages together for my garden book. I’ve been prevaricating for a while on how to do it, I discussed it with one of my friends from my stitching group who … Continue reading

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Tuesday’s Totter Round the Garden

Apologies for the radio silence, I’ve had major internet problems! My computer is in my sewing room on a desk that is about as far away from where the internet comes in as it could be, it’s been getting ridiculously … Continue reading

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