I have always been pretty grumpy on this, the holiday engineered to create maximum misery among the unloved. I would scowl at the bunches of flowers, and fantasize about jabbing mylar balloons with a hat pin. Then I took to ignoring it all. That worked great for a while. But this year, with Baki the …
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Little old me
Some of the best ideas are the ones that make us rethink our own. While I was in Istanbul at the end of January, I indulged in one of life's greater pleasures and visited a bookstore. They had a whole table of the Penguin Great Ideas series, and I hovered over it for a good …
What’s growing
A friend asked me on the phone what we're eating from the garden lately, so I was moved to take few snaps while I was out weeding and manuring yesterday. One of the most productive beds at the moment is this keyhole bed with salad material on one side and then brassicas (mostly bok choy …
A glimpse of the sun
During the hot, dry months of summer I dream of rain, but it's hard to imagine that now. We've had a procession of wet, gray days, so when the sun came out this morning, it was intoxicating. Everything looked lovely. We had our one freezing week in January, so the semi-tropical plants are all withered …
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We are back in the garden at last! Four days in Istanbul was more than enough running around for me. It was so busy that I didn't even have time to stand still long enough to wish all and sundry a very happy year of the dragon (or, for that matter, to thank anyone for …
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