Return of the gardening mojo

All of a sudden I’m back in the mood for tackling my vegetable patch, no doubt helped by the fact that I’ve been playing a few levels of this game, which tends to make me think that I could run a little farm NO PROBLEM AT ALL, WHAT DO YOU MEAN CLICKING MY MOUSE IS [...]

Germany calling

One day at school in 1998 after I’d made my A Level subject choices – History, English Literature and Theatre Studies – I was leaving our empty classroom when my German teacher, Mrs Utting, said to me that I could do A Level German if I wanted to, I was good enough to do so. [...]

Fluffy and cute

What more could you possibly want?

Click for the set
And then maybe when I’ve recovered from the 15 hours I’ve just spent processing hundreds of concert photos, I’ll tell you about the trip to Saarbrücken.

In a county where wildlife eats the food rather than the feeder

We went to Northants last week to see Granpop and Aunty Ann and Uncle Terry. They get a lot of interesting birds visiting their respective gardens, which always make for some good entertainment. Of course, one way to keep them away is to get your camera out. Nonetheless I got a few garden shots at [...]

I bet Laura Ingalls Wilder never had this trouble

I had some weedy little turnips that I thought might be a nice treat for the Shetland ponies and goats that I occasionally walk past on a wander in the fields, so I dropped them into my rucksack along with my camera and cycled up the little hill to feed them.
On one side of the [...]

I have worms

In an effort to suppress the uninvited slug population of my vegetable patch I bought worms online. Not the kind that infect PCs, but nematode worms. Magic microscopic worms that, I don’t know, eat slugs from the inside or something gross. But they do this below the surface of the soil, so I need never [...]

Fair weather farmer

The sun’s beginning to shine, the air is beginning to warm up and so I’m starting to think properly about my vegetable patch. Nobody should have improper thoughts about their vegetable patch. I still haven’t quite settled on what I’ll grow this year, nor yet where in the patch I would grow it, but I [...]