The Nook - A Garden Blog

So it is over a year since the operation on my neck. So much has happened. My talented brother Steve died at the age of 85 and we had a wond...

 A dry Christmas, with no rain or snow or hail - actually no rain would be good. So Happy Christmas to all those in more balmy (barmy?) clim...

 Just have to brass it out I suppose, sitting here with a gilet and a fleece on. (Oh! And a shirt, socks and - well you know.) Have to remem...

Dry-ish at the moment, clearing beds, failing to light bonfire again, running the sit on mower in shed so battery does not go flat, time for...

There are still flowers in the garden and autumn colour and sparrows in the rain. The  third week in October used to be the peak of autumn t...

  From drought to sog in a few days and the rain just keeps falling. The stream burbles, plants fall over weighed down with water.  The gard...