I have lived in Scotland for 10 years and yet, I still spend a large part of May drumming my fingers, waiting for it to get properly warm, sunny and spring like, instead of wet, cold and muddy. That dragging feeling I get as time slows to a drip as I wait for my flowers to bloom and my garden to...
Please can it be Spring now? I realise that we don't have the massive snows of North America, but man, I am tired of the cold, tired of bundling children up in actual clothes and tired of the dark. But mostly, I am just desperate to start the garden.We have spent most of the winter working on str...
Many of you have something to answer for...I've seen your blog posts. I have had the conversations. I know you've been picking berries, making pie, cooking jam, whilst we wait
And wait
And wait
I've written about the microclimate before. Its cold in my back garden. It rains a lot. While...
As any parent of small children will tell you, when inspiration strikes, you gotta move on it OR ELSE
So when I saw this post from Angry Chicken, Ellis was out and Georgia
was sleeping for the first time in weeks on her own in bed. I seized
that inspiration and ran with it.
Literally. I ran ou...
A few weeks ago as I walked into town, it was sweltering. I was sweating. The sun was beating down on us. Ellis complained he was too hot. The temperature at the time..66F
Needless to say, we're not having a promising summer thus far. Its cold. Its wet. Its Scotland. One certainly doesn't mo...