365 days to be greener

I am currently trying to help my dad move down here to be nearer to us.
Bizarrely, in they way that only people of a certain age can be, he is more worried about getting his things down here than the small matter of me actually being able to find him a place he can afford before he [...]

I found this on E-bay – Garden Pourer.
It turns any bottle in to a watering can with a very positionable spout. Handy when the water is running off the grow bags because you canit hit the openings through all the foliage…also worth noting that it works for pretty much any bottle – even a pretty one!

Found this website – Lally’s  Closet-  specialising in Vintage and re-conditioned clothes.

Worth a look if only because I bet every single one of us owned at least one of the “cocktail” dresses from the 80’s when we were teenagers….

Today we did a massive family exhibition up at the race course in Brighton. My stand was two days in the making, my cupcakes, luscious and my brow, fevered by the time the doors opened.
Five thousand people came and hopefully the same number went home again in time to watch us get beaten four nil [...]

Very sad to see the last in the series tonight but still utterly in awe of the casting (the “new” doctor should not have been better than David Tennant and I find I want to travel space and time with him even more – despite the fact I am old enough to be his mum), and the [...]

Today we are doing a fashion show to celebrate the culmination of national breastfeeding week and to raise funds for the local breastfeeding support group MILK. It is totally representative of how times have changed for a modern mother that we now have to have state funded groups to help women to establish effective and comfortable breastfeeding. [...]

After years of being too frightened to encourage birds to visit us in case they are dispatched by the neighbour’s cat, we have decided to risk it. Not least because the neighbours have such a tempting smorgasbord of treats on offer in their garden, we feel it is our moral duty to try and tempt them over there so they at least [...]