Notes from the Slow Lane

No garden looks its best in January and the garden is squelchy all over from the endless rain.  Nonetheless there are some bright points, so...

It cannot be denied that as far as I am concerned 2015 was a bad year for blogging.  The completeness of the change brought about by moving ...

The news lately has been abundantly dark, full of the terrible things we humans do to one another and I admit I have been finding it hard to...

The ceanothus in our garden is in full bloom and the bees are in paradise, you can hear them buzzing as they nimbly work from flower to flow...

As the old saying goes, March went out like a lamb; last weekend was glorious, warm and sunny and I revelled in being able to sit outside.  ...

Although today has been distinctly wintry on the whole we are surrounded by signs of spring.  Our pond was a ferment of frogs last week, at ...

A challenge to myself and to my usually gloomy outlook: to find and write about some best bits or favourite things from the past year. Kni...

This unseasonably warm weather has caused the garden to be a profusion of flowers and unseasonable new growth, so that alongside more usual ...

We finally have a sunflower flowering, planting the seeds directly in the ground was not wildly successful, these are the only two that have...

This morning has brought an unexpected treat from a generous neighbour of a gorgeous bunch of sweet peas and a vegetable marrow.  The sweet ...

A couple of days ago I took this photograph of some of the roses in the garden, attracted by the beauty of the tightly furled buds, their cr...

The ceanothus was only planted a few years ago but is already taller than me and is just, finally creeping into flower, slowly flushing with...

We are blessed with a beautiful magnolia tree outside our house in the front garden and in front of that on the kerb some variety of cherry ...

I am sadly aware that I have slipped well behind with my blogging, this is mainly due to life appearing to move at a far faster pace than I ...