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The Mystery of the Blue Grass
The Sister has a wonderful garden. It's awash with colour and raspberries. It's full of interesting quirks: Planting, statues, places to sit, bee hives and fruiting [...]
Dear Reader, He Moved In
The Toad is right up there with the viper when it comes to expressions of morality in literature. He's the method by which feminine goodness is [...]
The Spectacle Tree
The topiary at the top of my garden is definitely due a hair cut. I've resisted doing it myself because a lack of three dimensional vision [...]
Lockdown, Lies and Revelations!
Lockdown has probably led us all to discover things about ourselves and the people we live with. Some of our discoveries may be more palatable than [...]
The Antidote to Covid is Suduko
Gone are the days of my leaping heart at the sound of my text alert letting me know that the object of my desires was close [...]
A Useless Eater?
What do you call a boat full of lawyers at the bottom of the sea? So the joke goes, "a good start". At this point we [...]
My Dots Are Raised
The oven packed up. Why does this always happen when you have chopped up enough vegetables to sustain an anaerobic digester for a week? That's what [...]
Laundry Bags and Prophylactics
The mesh laundry bag is making a come back. It's a much under valued item that will preserve my clothes from the ferocity of the spin [...]