Category: HOME & GARDEN
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Garden makeover rolls on…
Nobody can do it all, the notion that anybody can is a myth peddled by privileged types who have a (concealed) army to do it all for them. I have no such army and I don’t especially want one, my standards are too exacting and I would end up re-doing it all anyway. Moreover, there…
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Small steps
In amongst the madness of the last few months I have still hoped to see progress on the home front. This print is the anchor piece of my new look mid-floor hallway. I haven’t taken a picture of it yet that really captures how striking the colours are. It will look even better once the…
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Garden makeover weekend #2
Another super busy gardening weekend. The most substantial task was to put down 20 bags of blue slate over the tired pebbles that came with the house. I also made it to a recycling centre to dispose of my garden waste (no small accomplishment these days!), fixed my shed and sorted out the gap between…
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Amateur gardening weekend
It was the right time to get some cyclical and long-term garden work done. The perfect after pictures will take a few weeks because to make an omelette you have to break some eggs. Planting/uprooting trees is a messy business, in the immediate sense you have to go backwards to go forwards. Like most things…
Dr Martin James 