We moved into our current home during lockdown June 2021. During that time, house hunters needed to have a mortgage in principle to view houses and the numbers of people viewing at a time was limited. We saw the house once before agreeing to put an offer. The four...
Summer is a busy time for gardens, with barbecues, family gatherings, kids’ play things, and all the associated equipment and furniture. When things slow down in autumn it’s hard to know what to do with all that outdoor stuff to keep it tucked safely away and in good...
It’s been many months since I last share with you in a blog what I’ve been doing in our garden. In Autumn I planted new wild flower seeds from Grow Wild. In the winter I cut back the lavender, lavendula and rose bush. The wild flowers from spring died off slowly;...
My Instagram timeline now contains many photos of our family garden. I can hardly believe, I’ve managed to help anything grow. Every morning, after the school I pop outside to see the changes that happened overnight. I don’t always like what I find....
… move house. Even before I was an expat, I moved around a lot. I spent week days with my grandmother and weekends with my parents. As grew older and hit my late teens, I also stayed over at friends’ houses. Looking back on it now I always had a bag packed...
