Lately I’ve been struggling to find the energy to do anything around the house/garden. Ordinarily I don’t get a lot achieved during the week and everything gets left to the weekend, only for some reason lately that hasn’t really been working out. This weekend, however, I had nothing planned so I decided to write myself … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: March 2014
{DIY} Ribbon Flower Brooch
On Wednesday Miss H (9 years old) came home and announced that Friday was ‘Harmony Day’ and that her school was encouraging her to wear orange as a result. Orange not being a particularly attractive colour (or at least so we think in our household) we didn’t really have anything orange that she could wear. My … Continue reading
Gardening / Self Sufficiency / Growing from Seed / In The Garden / Living Frugally / Succession Planting
{Succession Planting} Tuesday 18/3/14
I’ve been having trouble keeping up with the blog lately for a few different reasons. The first is the general malaise I get around now that means I tend not to harvest the plants I’ve spent so much time putting in. The second is that Mr J has just started at a new (special) school … Continue reading
Organising Cables
Nick and I moved into our house almost three years ago. It took me a year before I actually got everything unpacked and sorted. For some reason, in that haze of ‘organising’ I declared that we would keep all our household cables (you know, aerial points, chargers, ethernet cables, printer cables) in a tub together. … Continue reading
See How My Garden Grows: March 2014
So apparently it is the start of March – I was firmly convinced that today was the 27th of February – and that means two things. The first is that it’s time to link up with The Garden Share Collective. The second is that I missed out on my Rescue This project during February. Oops. … Continue reading
