Category: growing

Inconvenient, unexpected places

Inconvenient, unexpected places

Bloom where I’m planted?                  Walking is a mandatory activity now that Maisy is in my life.  That’s because our flat (apartment) is on the first floor and requires that I take her down stairs to get outside.  Just to clarify—in Britain we live on the first floor, because below us is the ground floor.  …

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Dungarees and Dirt!

Dungarees and Dirt!

Christmas 2001         As befitting a farmer’s granddaughter, and a “Wannabe Lady Farmer”, I chose to wear my dungarees today as I sat out on the balcony working on my “Farmer’s Tan” and organising my “Balcony Garden in Boxes.”  I was out in the glaring sun, mixing water with fertilizer, pouring it into dried out …

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