After another night of broken sleep I’m starting to resent the rain we’re having right now. It seems every other day is a downpour. The incessant hammering on the tin roof in the dead of night is starting to sound like fingernails down a blackboard. It... We’ve been a bit short on sunshine in the last few days. I’m beginning to think that seasonal affective disorder is setting in. Or perhaps it’s the middle-aged birthday blues. Whatever the reason I was looking for a pick me up and found... In the nick of time the new drainage is complete. Just as the heavens have started to open and we look forward to a week of mild but wet weather coming up. After a week of hard graft by the landscapers the retaining wall is in and another list is ticked off the... You notice nature so much more living in the country. Not just the birds, bees and flora but geography and geology. Most of all you notice the weather and it’s impacts on the environment. Not just that the lawn can get waterlogged, the trees perk up and... I have loads of vegetable gardening books but since starting the potager I’ve hardly opened them. One or twice to check out distances and complications but otherwise my vegetable growing experience this year has been based on trial and error rather than... 