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So we made it to the first of December and it’s time for the annual Reclaiming Paradise advent calendar. The theme this year is my new (to me) allotment. The cover picture shows it how it was in its rather bedraggled state back in April.
Complete with its roofless shed, broken down green house, brambles and weeds everywhere but promise of joys to come. The wind...
Since my last November post, things have been getting even more Novemberry. Today has been particularly bleak, with driving cold rain and darkness (literal and metaphorical) but I’ve been continuing in my search for tiny moments of light and beauty
My last post had a lot of autumn leave. Those have mostly fallen now, though some are piling up rather cheeringly on th...
November is my least favourite month, caused mainly by too much gloom, increasingly short days*, usually unmanageable day job pressures and no time in the garden and allotment. This year late October and early November has also brought some relatively minor but sleep depriving health issues, making all of the above even worse. End of moan. So this year I thought I would bring...
I’m sure you’re all wondering what I did with the 500g apple
It was sacrificed for the annual ‘what can we carve a Halloween lantern from this year?’ Challenge
Along with one of the last allotment potatoes. I hope you like its rather dashing whiskers.
The trick for these is to use a birt...
I’ve been experiencing some most annoying aches and pains lately, which has cut down on my gardening a bit and sent me off on my other pursuits such as swimming. I like to swim outdoors when I can but am a bit of a fair weather wild swimmer, turning in the autumn and winter mostly to the amazing local indoor pools provided by Edinburgh Leisure*. But, I digress and I promise t...
