Jennifers Little World

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This year I have learned a valuable lesson in the garden - don't give up on any plants until you are absolutely sure that they are dead!

In the autumn I very nearly removed this unidentified plant which filled my strawberry planter with beautiful pink flowers last year. It was shrivelled up and grey, and only stayed because I missed it during the autumn tidy up. To my s...

It has been ages since I last did one of these posts! 

I've been a bit quiet over here lately, so here's what I've been up to lately: 

I've been working my way through a very long book over the last few weeks - 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami. Strictly speaking it's three books, but it was cheaper to buy them all in one volume. Although large, it's...

At the end of last week I came downstairs one morning and the first thing I saw was a dead magpie on the back lawn. Not an old, ill magpie that had passed peacefully, but one that had been pecked at, lying in a cloud of feathers. I knew instantly that something untoward had occurred, and a quick check of our security cameras confirmed my suspicions. The poor magpie had been b...

I must admit, some of the books that I've read recently have been a bit mid, as the young people say. But on the other hand, several of them have been fantastic enough to share, so here are a few books that have really stood out to me amongst my recent reading.

This book was a wildcard entry to my to be read shelf. I received a book vou...