A good day out, and an amazing place. Cressing Temple Barns dates back to 1137, with the barns themselves built in the 13th century. The Tudor Knot garden is a reconstruction of a typical Tudor pleasure garden, and a real joy to walk in. We were given the tour by a volunteer guide and spentContinue reading “Cressing Temple Barns”
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Putting the garden to rights
We arrived home from our visit to friends on Monday and unloaded the plants I’d bought on our nursery tour. There were – a lot of plants. I wanted to plant them all this week, but the weather’s playing jokes. From cold and dry in April to wet and mild in May to warm andContinue reading “Putting the garden to rights”
Well, I’m back
I’ve been quiet for a while. The demons I’ve been painting were carefully placed outside the back door (yes, I repainted the eyes yellow… and they do look better). The Crazy Cat Lady story didn’t make the top ten, so it’s currently homeless. It did better than the cyberpunk fairy tale, which didn’t get aContinue reading “Well, I’m back”
Do you believe in fairy tales? Naaah…
It’s been a week of amazing weather, even for the soft south of Britain. Up to twenty degrees outside in our garden; a few hours in a couple of days when we can wear shorts and T-shirts outside, and each day tempting us out to dig over the garden, check over the vehicles (which haven’tContinue reading “Do you believe in fairy tales? Naaah…”
A Walk in the Woods
We woke to snow again. It had started to thaw last night, but the temperature dropped far enough to form long icicles on the gutters and freeze the surface of the pond. A light dusting of snow on the pond stayed throughout the day. We took a long walk down to our local wood andContinue reading “A Walk in the Woods”
Closed until further notice
The only people still cheerful about snow out here are kids and big kids like me. We’ve had a strong blast of cold air straight from Russia and Scandinavia hitting the east of the country and dumping up to ten inches of snow on counties that are really not used to the white stuff. I’mContinue reading “Closed until further notice”
Now the year has really started.
Yesterday was another indoors day, and I used it to plant up the first seeds of the year. I’ve had the propogators set up for a week now; seed compost in modules, gently watered and plugged in to heat the soil. Yesterday I spent the whole day deciding which varieties I was going to plant,Continue reading “Now the year has really started.”
Writing out the spite
Reedsy put up some interesting prompts this week. They always put up five, all on the same theme, and this week’s theme is ‘Meet in the Middle’. They’ve set up the beginning and end of the story and challenged the writers to fill in the middle. I liked the one that gave the first lineContinue reading “Writing out the spite”
Good day’s writing
Made the most of a sunny morning by clearing up in the garden – chucking leaves on the compost heap, tucking the fleece down over tender plants and clipping back some overgrown hedge plants. Then starting on a batch of pickling onions. The kitchen compost bin is now full of onion skins and we bothContinue reading “Good day’s writing”
Julia Chalkley 