Week two: Hello dog, goodbye alpacas

October 26, 2017.Reading time 7 minutes.

This week marked what I think is our first big lesson about smallholding, to whit, that we had some very strong preconceived notions of what this would be like. I wanted to like the alpacas, I really did. They were so dainty, with their pretty eyelashes and their long graceful necks. I had visions of […]

Adios alpacas

October 19, 2017.Reading time less than 1 minute.

I think that the alpacas have to go.

Upgrading on the internet: Bloglovin’!

July 30, 2017.Reading time less than 1 minute.

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The poor neglected garden

August 4, 2014.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Dear readers. I write to apologise for my absence. Normal service will resume within a couple of weeks but I’ve been otherwise distracted for the last couple of week. Well, the last four anyway. Four weeks ago today our first child, a little boy, was born and it turns out that looking after a baby […]

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2014 review (Saturday)

May 29, 2014.Reading time 4 minutes.

The thing about the Chelsea Flower Show is that it’s just about small enough to be seen in one day IF you get there early and hotfoot it about. It was my first time this year and I was somewhat daunted by the size of the map when we got there. We arrived last Saturday […]