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A little bit more energetic

After months of horrid weather and the usual SAD plus several ongoing health problems...

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12 Feb, 2024
Arbuthnot

Summer is fading, part 2

Two other photos. One is Forever Friends on the Amelanchier. The other is the pink...

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25 Jul, 2021
Arbuthnot

Summer is fading

My small garden has been so colourful this year though looking quite congested. Yesterday...

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25 Jul, 2021
Arbuthnot

Being ruthless

When we moved here nearly 8 years ago we brought a potted dwarf Cox apple tree and...

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14 Dec, 2020
Arbuthnot

Japanese anemones

After reading the question posed by Cazoo I went out and dug my JA out. I hadn’t...

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30 Oct, 2020
Arbuthnot

Lockdown

6So, for most people, lockdown will soon be a thing of the past. Not so those of...

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14 Jun, 2020
Arbuthnot

Backs and their problems

I haven't been on GOY for a while. I'm having chronic back problems which are aggravated...

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11 Dec, 2019
Arbuthnot

From one problem to the next

In the five and half years we’ve lived here we seem to lurch from one problem to...

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8 Sep, 2019
Arbuthnot

Confused

The plants in my garden seem to be confused by the strange weather variations we're...

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22 Sep, 2018
Arbuthnot

Spring garden

The garden is coming alive with plenty of colour. The star of the show at the moment...

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9 May, 2018
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Too much going on

What with the weather and pressing (and extremely frustrating) things happening on...

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29 Apr, 2018
Arbuthnot

Such grey days!

I’ve been trying to hibernate this winter as we’ve had so much gloom and damp with...

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27 Jan, 2018
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