It's been a quiet few days here - mainly because I have almost totally lost my voice so am unable to speak!  However, the weather has be...

Yesterday I was at Mum and Dad's in north Norfolk to help them start sorting out the loft.  It'd got into quite a state as Mum hadn...

I'm enjoying having a little more time to sit in the garden this week, the weather is still glorious and fortunately a little less humid...

As some of you may know, this year I've tried the 'planting by the moon' method for my veg garden. I've always been fascinat...

My garden is very long and very narrow but it is not as it would first seem; it is full of twists and turns, of dark and light, of colour an...

Today I ate my first homegrown pea of the season.  It was a mangetout, Shiraz. It's been flowering for a while, then the first tiny...