Coming out of my cage
I have been reluctant to post my blogs over the last few months of lockdown and its aftermath here in Lewes, UK. I didn’t feel I had much to add to the millions of comments about the pandemic over the…
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The second Covid-19 lockdown here in the UK allows me to work at staying fit.
The hot days of the summer lockdown here in the UK have passed but now it’s second time round for the covid-19 precautions and, in classic English autumn style, it has been raining and, more importantly, it has got cold.…
Wolfie Caged
How I survived lockdown. I have finally got round to writing a blog now that, wisely or foolishly, the great British lockdown is being eased. Until now, I haven’t quite managed to write about this, the strangest of times. I…
It’s St David’s Day and that means it’s daffodil opening time here in Lewes, UK.
Midway through February and the rain has come my way, here in Lewes, UK. It might get a guy down, damp feet and water down the back of the neck, but, somehow, when the bulbs are stirring , I…
Hopeful signs bursting out all over Lewes.
As we reach the middle of February here in Lewes, UK, our winter is releasing its frozen grip out there and I can already see signs of hope out there on the horizon. I, inevitably, have succumbed to the latest…
Unexpected exotic passion in my Lewes garden.
I planted a passionflower in my Lewes garden last year and it seems deliriously happy there. The passionflower or Passiflora edulis to its Latin scholar friends, is only just frost resistant so it usually grows in hot countries like…
Who says apple pies don’t grow on trees? They do in Lewes.
I harvested the Bramley Seedling cooking apples from the espalier tree in my small Lewes garden recently. After a slice of apple pie, I thought back over the year and was glad to have watched the process that led…
My Lewes weekend apple harvest
My little apple tree has been a source of pleasure all year and this weekend its season reached its climax with an unusually large amount of bright red fruit ready for picking here in my Lewes, UK, garden. This is…
… and the rain came to Lewes
Yep, after all that sunshine here in Lewes, UK, things changed…..but remember…. …rain has its charms and, anyway… …every time it rains, don’t run under a train or anything like that, it’s time to sit…
My new friend, the one-eyed Siamese cat.
I’m an enthusiast about my small Lewes, UK, garden and, I have to say in all modesty that it is looking particularly fine at the moment with all the roses in full bloom and much else on its way.…