Our Garden: the digging commences
Two major house projects have begun over the last two weeks; the internal rewiring (lots of dust!) and the external landscaping/drainage works (lots of mud!).
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Our Garden: play space update
Our very first project in the garden was to get rid of the old (dangerous!) play structure and to install a new fence. We managed to do this at the end of the summer, and now have a safe play
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Our Garden: as Fall begins
I look out at these trees from my front porch. The green has been changing to yellow and is now deepening to burnished gold. In the bright blue of a gorgeous autumn day, the leaves glow against the sky.
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Our Garden: the Easter egg bush
One afternoon the boys came running in to the house. Mummy, you have to come and see this, we’ve found an Easter egg bush!
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Our Garden: more flowers
Each week that passes more, and different, flowers open in the garden. It really is going to be a year of discovery.
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Our Garden: the first project
When I gave you all a first peek of our garden I mentioned that one of our first projects was going to be to create an enclosed, safe garden space for the kids.
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Our Garden: flowers
This week, I took a little walk around our garden looking at all the flowers that are still in bloom. Stomping around in my welly boots in the heat I felt a bit silly, but my poor legs need protecting
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Expat: moving house in the US
I’m sitting in my new kitchen (on the only chair we currently have here). I’ve just connected the iPad to the wireless for the first time!
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How does your garden grow?
I have been absent from How does your garden grow? again. This has been the longest winter ever! I haven’t felt particularly inspired by the outdoors. Then, suddenly, it was as if Spring had sprung overnight.
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How does your garden grow?
It may be the first day of Spring, but I have to admit, it’s still not feeling much like it! The words that spring (sorry!) to mind are: Dull… Brown… Soggy… Hibernation…
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