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 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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Lucy on January 3rd, 2011

Happy New Year!
I’m well aware that blog-wise, December was a washout for me. As you may or may not have read in my last blog post, I spent the majority of December either being too stressed or too ill to do anything interesting or Smallest Smallholding-related. It felt as if my laptop had become a [...]

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Lucy on July 22nd, 2009

I had visions of having a wall (or bank) of different types of sunflowers to disguise one of the less than attractive fences.
Hmmmm. Well, after all that wind and rain last week, my sunflowers got a bit of a battering. Most of the tall ones THAT I’D EVEN TAKEN THE TIME TO STAKE got blown [...]

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