Summer, Year Two
Summer, Year Two. Despite April frosts and May downpours, we have made it at last, and colour has exploded into the garden. The sun is shining, a gentle breeze blowing, birds singing and life is everywhere.
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Summer, Year Two. Despite April frosts and May downpours, we have made it at last, and colour has exploded into the garden. The sun is shining, a gentle breeze blowing, birds singing and life is everywhere.
Spring, Year Two. It’s been nearly twelve months of having a house with a garden, so for the first time we are able to see April with all its promise.
Winter, Year One. A cold and frosty first Christmas in our new house. Between Covid and everything else that’s gone on this year, it’s not quite the big family event I imagined. But if this year has taught us anything, it’s how to be happy with just the three of...
Autumn, Year One. The last of the barbecues gone, a wind from the west brings colder storms ashore. We wonder how the rest of the year will go; Halloween without trick-or-treaters, Christmas without family and friends?
Summer, Year One. The weeds keep on coming but the pumpkins are ‘roided up and ready to take them on. Astroturf is gone and the blackberry bush keeps on giving. Tomatoes are nearly done but beans are coming on strong. Lettuce and spring onion seeds going in today.
Spring, Year One. A new house, a new start, and our first ever garden of our own. We have survived the incredible stress of moving in the middle of a pandemic, and now at last I can put some of that time stuck at home to good use. The previous...
While clearing out a decade of unnecessary junk from the kitchen today, we discovered this recipe book from the 80s… and it is INCREDIBLY CURSED. Here’s some of the recipe highlights you may like to enjoy. Or you may not, you know, it’s your call. We’ll start with “Tangy Grapefruit”....
Thanks to an excitingly mis-sold internet purchase, we are now in possession of the latest in exciting mobile technology - the MAFAM M11. (If you’re mentally incapacitated, you could have one of your very own for 24 whole US dollars!) Let’s jump in and see what this technological marvel has...
As far as I know, SuccessWhale is not being actively used by anyone any more, so I have chosen not to renew the domain name successwhale.com when it expires today. Like most of my past web-based projects, it will continue to live on at an onlydreaming.net subdomain, in this case...
Against all my expectations, the most popular page on this website (at least, the most visited) turns out to be “The Great Roast Dinner Timing Chart”, which was my attempt to help newbies at the revered British art of the Roast Dinner get their timings right. I first posted it...