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Playing With Fire
Whenever I take a drive around, I can open the windows and smell woodsmoke almost everywhere. Now that days...
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The October Checklist
I love lists. I love making them and even when the length of the list outruns my ability to...
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Sunflowers And Sunsets
In the rosy afterglow of a long day at work it is nice to sit and relax with perhaps a...
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Off With Their Heads!
The heavy dew and a little rain, swell the warmth that is in the soil at this time of...
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Mind The Gap
Summer seems finally to have arrived though if you are like me you will want to plan ahead. Spare...
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“Hey, Babe, Take a walk on the wild side” Lou Reed
There can be few finer sights than a meadow in full floriferous glory or a spectacle more redolent of...
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Snowbells and Other Summer Flowers
Where has summer gone? I am sure that I am not the only person asking that question after those...
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All that glitters…
I don’t normally pay too much heed to what happens at the Chelsea flower show in fact I have...
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People and Places of Sikkim
Sikkim is one of the most northerly states in India, it is certainly the smallest. It is a tiny...
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Keeping Royal Company
In the year when the Queen turns 90 a surge in patriotism is to be expected. But the garden...