Lucy on July 3rd, 2011

Prologue: I wrote this about 5 weeks ago and never published it. Whoops. I’ve been so busy. SO busy - very sorry for the lack of blog updates. But I will be blogging again soon. Promise.
I’ve just been on a pre-lunch potter, and discovered that in just one square metre of our pretty substantial nettle [...]

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Lucy on May 1st, 2011

I sat down at my laptop a couple of weeks ago and thrashed out a blog post - it wasn’t very inspired, more like a list of everything that’s going down (or growing up) in my greenhouse. I wouldn’t want to read it, and I couldn’t see any reason why anybody else might, so it [...]

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Lucy on March 20th, 2011

We’ve been working on clearing out an overgrown corner of the Smallest Smallholding so we can have a Mediterranean-style eating area with loads of wildlife/bee-friendly, drought-tolerant plants. It gets sun pretty much all day and the soil is incredibly poor… but that’s OK for some plants! A massively, huge, immense job but I’m determined to [...]

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Lucy on February 4th, 2011

Batten the hatches!
It’s REALLY windy today. At least my new greenhouse panes are still in situ though - hurrah (above is a picture of me trying very hard to get the pane to fit).
I should be rattling through some freelance work at the moment, but the truth is, it’s gone 10am and I’m propped up [...]

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