Friday 30 May 2008

A Perfectly Good Reason Not To Do Anything

I was much encouraged by the RSPB's monthly "Home for Wildlife" e-newsletter that landed in my inbox this week. Their tip for the month was to leave an area of the lawn uncut!! For me, that's great news, as you'll see from this photo.




This is the bottom half of my very very narrow but long garden. The bottom half is the half I have yet to get to, having spent the last few months slowly (very slowly) building a patio at the top end - the first step in the gradual and intended transformation of this garden.


For now, thanks to the timely advice from the RSPB, I feel less guilty looking down the garden.

Thursday 22 May 2008

Get Well Soon, Monty!

I'm sure everyone in the UK (and possibly outside it!) will have heard the news about Monty Don's recent stroke and decision to step down from presenting Gardener's World.

There are already lots of well-wishing comments on various message boards, but this blogger wanted to add their own best wishes to Monty and to wish him a full and speedy recovery.

I'm Still Here!!

For the small number of you who have been kind enough to have left comments on this blog, and the even smaller number who have added this blog to various favourite lists....I just wanted to reassure you that I will be back on here more regularly soon.

Since my last post at the beginning of April, I have been overseas and also the victim of some extremely disruptive building work that has completely thrown any sense of normality or routine out of the window!

I hope that things will have settled back down in the next week or so and I will be resuming normal service soon after that when I can share a recent trip to South Africa and some hard landscaping much closer to home.