Like many people in southern Britain, we have spent the last 4 or 5 days waiting ominously for a great storm to arrive. We were promised that it would be comparable to the “Hurricane” of 1987, an event I very much remember as a child and not just because of an inability to get to… Continue reading The Great Storm of Saint Jude
Tag: Gardening
With silver bells and cockleshells
Something amazing has happened this summer. We actually got one! I’ve had a my own house and garden for 5 years and this is the first time that we have actually had a summer. We’ve had 5 or 6 weeks of “hot” weather and another month or two of fine warm weather with just the… Continue reading With silver bells and cockleshells