Franl155's Blog archive

new camera

I got a new camera about a year ago; Nikon bridge camera, though I'm still using...

back, sort of, fingers crossed

the new pc I've been given seems to have finally decided to let me go to sites other...

back but only just

no sooner had I started to pick myself up frim my lurgy when my pc finally fell over...

hanging milk bottle planters

I had an idea for using plastic milk bottles as hanging planters – can’t now remember...

Kat's gifts at home at last

More than a year ago, Katarina was kind enough to send me a couple of small garden...

Garden centre squatters

Went with a friend to the local Percy Thrower garden centre – I’d been before and...

UK bans sale of five invasive non-native aquatic plants

while Googling for "pond oxygenating plants" I came across this BBC report from 2013-thought...

bed 1a

This is the bed to the left in the back garden – trying to number or name them so...

When the wind blows ...

I hadn’t realised, when I first moved in, how windy it could get. I picked up small...

back loop over time

Just after I’d moved in – it had been “trimmed” by a gardener, but still pretty shaggy...

bed 1a over time

Browsing old photos, realised how much has changed in about 18 months ... As I saw...

Milk bottle hanging planters

Finally found a way to recycle the plastic milk bottles I’ve been saving for ages. The...