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2020 – December
Read moreAnother quiet month here. Not too much happening in the garden, as the weather was quite frosty and there was Christmas to look forward to. I did make a start on pruning the fruit bushes though. And Helen helped me replace the arch which had fallen when the main support tree died and most of […]
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2020 – November
Read moreAll quiet here this month, with a second lockdown in place we had no visitors again. We did take ourselves out for breezy walks along the seafront. It began to look very autumnal, lots of misty mornings and plenty of fungi appearing Time to start putting the garden in order for Winter. Fuchsias and other […]
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2020 – October
Read moreAutumn has arrived, getting cooler and damper, so it’s time for doing some more jobs in the garden. Fortunately the weather wasn’t too extreme this month, with less damage than we had in September and August, although I did wake up one morning to find that the fuchsias had tumbled in the night following a […]
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2020 – September
Read moreSo September was a mixed month weather-wise, some glorious days in the first half, but then a very autumnal feel to the end of the month. The work on the patio was finally booked in for the third week of September, so we spent some time clearing the area around the back of the house. […]
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2020 – August
Read moreHello and welcome to the first post at the new home for the blog. The format hasn’t changed, it’s still a monthly post of general progress, and lots of pictures. One experimental change is how the pictures are shown. The previous method I used is not available with this new host. So for now only […]
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2020 – Aerial shot
Read moreWe are fortunate that a local photographer (https://www.davidjgilyeatphotography.co.uk/) has a drone, and took some pictures of our house. Here’s the best one showing the main cultivated area between the lane and the caravan site. I’ve also included a cropped version with the main areas labelled. Clicking on either will bring up a larger version of […]
