I've been listening almost obsessively to the King Creosote and Jon Hopkins album, Diamond Mine. It is so gorgeous that after playing it for the first time from start to finish, I was so bereft at having to stop hearing it that I just went right back to the beginning. It's very much about King …
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Peekaboo!
I saw it from afar, as I was watering the bitter melon- a bit of red peeking out from between the leaves of one of the Momotaro tomato plants. We've been eating tomatoes for a couple of weeks already, but I've been waiting for the Momotaros. It's a Japanese hybrid that is apparently a popular …
Besotted
More than one person has asked me if it was love at first sight when Kaya was born. I'd have to say that it wasn't. I think my first reaction was relief, to be honest, followed by various forms of disbelief: although I've done this once before, it is the hardest thing in the world …
Black currant fizz…
... is the name of this lovely opium poppy, being scrutinized here by Baki and my mom: The seeds were from Thompson & Morgan; I picked them up in London in December. They always tell you on the seed packets that poppies hate being transplanted, so you ought to direct-sow them. We sowed these in …
Cut flowers
"You guys don't know what to do with cut flowers," my mother said when she saw some cut snapdragons in a glass with no water in it. Ali had cut them so that I could smell them; they were supposed to be scented and it turned out they were. She's right- we love to grow …
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