Gattina's Blog archive

The "Big" snows have arrived!

The weather forecast sites, (and the neighbours for months) have been predicting...

The Good Wife's Guide

I came across this the other day when clearing out my filing cabinet, and thought...

Is there a Doctor Doolittle out there? Does anyone speak crow?

Sorry, I have tried to take a picture, but they are just too far away to be worth...

Oh the weather outside is frightful, but the fire is so delightful........

This was one of the best Christmasses ever. Not everything went to plan (see my last...

The turkey has arrived!

Friends have just arrived (getting on for midday) with our promised turkey. It's...

Happy Christmas everybody!

What do you mean, you've asked Santa for a Nectaroscordum siculum, an Oemleria cerasiformis,...

Aggressive selling

I am sorry about the wingeing tone of this blog, but I feel shaken and angry. I am...

Shangri La and a nice discovery

It's very strange, but we seem to have our own little microclimate here. We are three...

It must be about time for tea....

I have just spent a lovely afternoon digging over the vegetable garden in the soft...

At Last! Cotinus!

I'm sure many of you GoYs have by now been made aware that garden centres as we know...

Maria's chrysanthemums

Our neighbour, the tiny, totally mad, 92 (well, to our knowledge she has been 90...

singing hedgehog, part three

The latest, brief update on the hedgehogs. Around midnight last night, OH, asleep...