Behind The Child

We spend quite a bit of time together, Mog and I, usually when she is unwell and the Little Princess is in school. It's nice, ...

There's something about Autumn which brings out the dormant domesticity in me. After a summer of shoving stuff here and there and settli...

This week's fruit and veg box looks particularly appetising, perhaps because I now have the leisure to decide what to cook and when with...

It's Monday. The girls are back at school, Great Grannie is back at home, and I have the house to myself and no special agenda beyond ma...

Take one Grandad, and post him up a tree Spend the next three weeks converting the apples into a whole lot of this and a freezer full of pur...

I recommend raspberries. Buy half a dozen canes, poke them into holes in the ground, and then enjoy a sprinkling of raspberries for breakfas...

"Hey! Grass!" You leave a soil bed when you go to school in the morning, and when you get back in the afternoon someone has laid a...

One gardener turned up today- the first fine Wednesday since Autumn! Little Fish was very keen to supervise him, and he seemed surprisingly ...

We went in search of Spring this afternoon. I think We may have found it! Photos (mostly) by Little Fish who seems to be proving the need fo...

So, today , as I cleaned the third cat turd from the bathtub in as many days, I decided that things really couldn't carry on as they are...

Yesterday, I woke up, drew the curtains, and saw a heron, half a dozen geese, same again of ducks, a coot and a moorhen (we think - one had ...

Whether the weather be hot Whether the weather be not We'll weather the weather whatever the weather Whether we like it or not. And it...

A heavy rain to melt away the snow, and then a beautifully sunny afternoon. Only one thing to do - drive over to Blenheim Palace for a walk...

Stuffed marrow. Even better the second day; Mog fighting for a bite and Little Fish taking a mouthful, then gasping for a sip of water to ta...

Blackberries and apples picked from a friend's garden in the morning and baked for tea that evening. A stuffed marrow; also from a frien...

Now promise you won't laugh. I haven't many flowers* And I haven't cut the grass. But now I'm going to dig and plant And soo...

I had a garden last year. It was beautiful. Young, not perfect, but a lovely place to slip out to in the early morning before the girls were...