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♪♪♪ Half an allotment is better than ... ♪♪♪

♪♪♪ Half an allotment is better than ... ♪♪♪ to the tune of ♪♪♪ Half a sixpence...

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10 Mar, 2010
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Spring flowers

Or should I call them "End of winter" flowers? Or what about "Pre-Spring" flowers? We...

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7 Mar, 2010
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Cuenca, Spain, Christmas 2009

I promised another blog on Cuenca, Spain-this time without the snow (or the sunshine!). We...

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18 Jan, 2010
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Winter in Spain

What do you think of when you see my comments & blogs on my years in Spain? Oh,...

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22 Dec, 2009
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Winter on a balcony

As I would hate to lose all the Fuchsia plants I bought last year to go in my hanging...

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20 Dec, 2009
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Yews, Oaks, Cedars & Horsechestnuts

After reading Hywel's blog on a Yew tree I decided I would go out & take some...

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18 Dec, 2009
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The Queen's earrings ...

... or Pendientes de la Reina as they call them in Spain! What am I talking about???...

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16 Dec, 2009
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Council gardeners

Today the council gardeners arrived & begun tearing up the plants. They began...

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29 Sep, 2009
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"We got bloomin' gold!"

Anglia in Bloom I read in our local newspaper today that Huntingdon had won the Gold...

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28 Sep, 2009
Balcony

Establishing healthy shrubs with less water

Establishing healthy shrubs not the water-consuming task many think, research shows Good...

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28 Sep, 2009
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Death of a pet

Unfortunately the last of the dogs we brought over with us from Spain 8 years ago...

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23 Sep, 2009
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Flowerbeds on Ring Road

As we enter, officially, autumn in the northern hemisphere on Monday, 21st September,...

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18 Sep, 2009
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