Am currently living in terror that the garden will rise up and completely swallow the house, like a sort of untidy shaggy green monster. It keeps raining, causing everything to grow at a terrifying rate, yet making it impossible to mow things. The path in and out of the house has become perilously narrow, and the whole situation is starting to look ( Read more... )

I seem to have mostly escaped Aaargh Day for the last couple of years - that day when I have to admit that the Jungle That Is My Garden has got away from me and there is no hope of reining the damn thing in and my only hope is that winter will come before it manages to eat the house.

Alas, hot weather and rain and brilliant sunshine have come ( Read more... )

It is the time of year when I look around the jungle garden and am overcome with woe at all the things I didn't manage to keep up with. I've not taken any photos of the veg beds. They are just too depressing.
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I found a baby treecreeper this morning.  He wasn't abandoned, as one of his parents flew down and fed him just as I was approaching, but he was sitting right in the middle of a road!  This didn't seem like a good move, so I shooed him up the road to a layby, as he was reluctant to go into the long grass.

Mollydog's leg is mostly looking pretty ( Read more... )

- Our washing machine has died. Debating whether to buy a new one (probably more efficient, will take more stuff in one load!) or see if I can find a repairer (more economical and more green to repair than replace - IF I can find a repairer that will come out here for not-astronomic sums and who can actually fix a machine that's about 8 years old ( Read more... )

Every year, there comes a day when suddenly, everything in the garden seems to be growing terrifyingly fast, and I panic and realise that I can't hope to keep up with it all and that if I take my eye of it for a moment it will all rush the house like a gang of triffids and There is No Hope.   I have decided to name that day.  It is Aargh Day.

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