We have a glut of green tomatoes at the moment as my mum came over last week and tamed our huge mess of tomato plants into beautifully neat individual stalks tied to canes. We managed to fill a whole wheelie bin full of tomato plant foliage, but saved some of the nicest looking tomatoes. Unfortunately since they were all hidden under leaves before ( Read more... )

so, i've come up with the best plan to take over the world... get tight with an evil genius, let him do all the grunt work and then overthrow him later :D

ok, any evil genii reading this, i'm only kidding... no really... *cackles evilly*

in other news, my mum had lunch with prince harry today. no kidding. he gave her a kitkat. so... maybe that's a ( Read more... )

my mum is a star. she is famous and super. (she is also looking at the screen over my shoulder...) to see this famous woman, visit http://www.spetchleygardens.co.uk and click on her gardener's diary. hoe hoe hoe.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOTH!!

(hippy pappy bathuduth thuthda bathuthdee)

it's been a good year... i'm so proud of you for getting all famous! Sky tv last year, RHS magazine this year, next year who knows...? hehe

this one's for you, courtesy of moppy :-D


( Read more... )

hello hello. have been staying at mum's for a while, and dad's before that so haven't been online. home now.

i can't believe how much my baby sister has grown! i know people always say that about kids, how they grow up so fast... but i suppose i noticed it so much because i have hardly seen her at all during her first year. i have to remedy that as ( Read more... )

on a happier note, i went to the theatre last night with mum to see the reduced shakespeare company again. i saw it a couple of years ago at the criterion in london with my flatmate. it's so excellent!

it had a few differences that i noticed, being in a provincial cotswolds town rather than our nation's capital... the english/american lie-chester ( Read more... )

swimming with moth was funny... there's all these hardcore senior citizens doing their serious weekly exercise regime... and then there's us... giggling so much we're almost drowning, sprinting up and down the pool in bizarre races, trying to do 'three-armed' swimming (holding hands... SO would have worked if i hadn't laughed and swallowed half the ( Read more... )

so... when moth came over to see me a couple of days before christmas, i asked her to tell me a story... and she made one up about a girl who lived in a sponge pudding (yeah i take after her in so many ways...) and today in my inbox i found another story she wrote yesterday to amuse me, about said girlie *grins* made me laugh... i love my mum, she' ( Read more... )