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Easy Tips & Tricks To Introduce Your Children To Gardening

February 23, 2016 by

Gardening is great for your health and it gets you out the house, away from the TV and into the fresh air – so why wouldn’t you want to get your kids involved? If getting them away from the screen is proving difficult and the response to you asking if they want to do some […]

Filed Under: Garden Tagged With: fruit trees, gardens, grow your own

The Garden of Dreams.

October 26, 2013 by

In my dreams, I stroll gently to the French windows each morning, steaming herb tea in my hand, white dressing gown wafting around my shapely, perfectly smooth legs and look out at a garden that looks a bit like this. Unfortunately, along with the legs, dressing gown, tea and occasionally opening French doors, this particular […]

Filed Under: Garden, Home Improvements Tagged With: Activity Toys Direct, garden makeover, garden toys, memory garden, perfect play garden, Pinterest garden, sensory garden, tots100, virtual garden

Notcutts: reviewing my favourite gardening shop.

June 26, 2013 by

The opportunity to say something nice about somewhere you really like is extremely appealing. When I’m blogging properly I do link to businesses I love just for… erm.. love but when Notcutts offered me a voucher to review the brand new garden and home website, I couldn’t turn it down really. Apart from anything else, […]

Filed Under: Garden, Reviews Tagged With: buying for shady garden areas, buying perennials, buying plants online, garden review, good garden centres, notcutts review, notcutts website

Review: Didicar's are Fantastic :)

June 18, 2013 by

We first met a Didicar in the hallway of the Bean’s house, some years ago. They do have a biggish (and conveniently wooden floored) hallway, which made it a good place to drive one and I was impressed at the fun that was had with what at first glance seemed to be just a ride […]

Filed Under: Garden, Reviews Tagged With: Didicar, Didicar Walk n'Ride, garden ride on, garden toys, inventive garden toys, Original Didicar, ride on for big kids, toddler garden toys, toddler ride on toys

Why I'm quiet.

January 17, 2013 by

There are all sorts of reasons. One is I’m spending my evenings listening to the Wee Free Men books while making this. Another is I’ve been making these. Because I really want to get back to selling handmade things this year and I have masses of plans and not much time. Then there is crawling […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Being a Parent, Family Life, Garden, Home Education, Merrily Empire, Thinking Tagged With: family life, grief olympics, new craft shop, thoughts

Allotment Update

August 27, 2011 by

You are only allowed to look if you promise not to mention the weeds 😆 We’ve just not managed to get there enough this year; too many unfortunate – and fortunate – events and emotional stresses, lack of car, being poorly. Still. What went in had variable success and we learned lots for this Autumn […]

Filed Under: Allotment, Garden Tagged With: Allotment veg, garden veg, growing vegetables with children, vegetables

Not so much other than ordinary

June 24, 2011 by

In the almost total absence of a home internet access this week, we’ve done other stuff. The allotment was in sore need of some work, so we’ve done that. The little girls have weeded and watered and stone collected, so our beds are better next year and we’ll have paths to walk on that get […]

Filed Under: Allotment, Garden, Home Education

Garden and Allotment Updates

June 13, 2011 by

Claire and Charlie bought this (and it’s pair) after Freddie died last year. Claire, it is just so beautiful this year 🙂 I just love these two. The garden is nice at the moment, in a slightly wild and a bit too purple and blue sort of way. But these two just make me shiver […]

Filed Under: Allotment, Garden Tagged With: allotment gardening, carrots, columbine, corn, foxgloves, garden flowers, garlic, growing vegetables, onions, peas, potatoes, red hot pokers, roses, shallots

Allotment Watch

May 10, 2011 by

You can’t say fairer than seeing your first little shoots of stuff coming up 🙂 While the garden is fairly bursting with veggie life, the allotment is (understandably) behind it but these onions were only put in over the Royal Wedding Weekend and shoots were really exciting to see. There was also a garlic shoot […]

Filed Under: Allotment, Family Life, Garden, Home Education, Photos Tagged With: allotment blog, allotments with kids, container gardening, foxgloves in the garden, gardening with kids, growing vegetables, growing vegetables on allotments, planting seeds with kids, veg growing blog, vegetable growing blog, vegetables in pots

Trains…

May 4, 2011 by

The kids have been reasonably pleased with the whole “Night Mail” thing and have done some great work on it. I’ve not done photos yet but Maddy has done an amazing snippet of poem to fit into it:- “And though the country is very vast, she’ll never get lost, she’ll keep going fast. She’ll follow […]

Filed Under: Amelie, Being a Parent, Children & Grief, Family Life, Garden, History etc, Home Education, Photos, Poems Tagged With: discussing terrorism with kids, explaining war to kids, garden, growing beans, night mail, poetry, politics with kids, seedlings, simon weston, stamp collecting, studying night mail, world affairs with kids

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