Gardening
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Another hard day’s work
In the garden and kitchen. I have never expected any help in the kitchen so fair enough that I don’t get much. R is not too bad in that he puts the dishwasher…
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Mowing the lawn
Continuing my gardening activities today with our robot “Rowley”. I did most of the back lawn – it was quite a nice day but windy with a few clouds scudding about. All of…
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Back to “normal”
I put my usual state in inverted commas, as I am not sure I have ever warranted the description of normal, but whatever it is, I was back to it today after our…
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Clearing up
I cleared up yet another load of weeds today. It was time for the composting bin to go out, and it was full up to the brim. When I went to move it,…
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A walk in the park
R suggested that we went for a walk this evening because “he hadn’t been out of the house all day”. I didn’t like to mention that I had been outside in the intermittently…
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In which not much happens
R was away at a conference today, so I did a load of boring gardening. J did a little bit of boring gardening – he is supposed to be doing 10 hours a…
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A middle class Saturday morning
R and I had been going to go to St Andrews today, but of course the weather which had been lovely all week had turned nasty for the weekend. So instead we went…
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My besties
I have already mentioned Rowley the Mowrator. He is one of R’s all time good discoveries – we got him when he was a kickstarter and he does all our lawns here front…
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More things of beauty
The good weather was back today and I resumed gardening, minus any help from the male members of the household. R has an excuse, J does not. Anyway, they missed some good stuff. …
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A miniature ecosystem
I have started to work my way into the less explored reaches of the garden. There have been large numbers of trees here over the last 170 years, and many of them have…