Author Archives: Grace

Here we are, enjoying a delicious outdoor-reared waffle breakfast, all unaware that the next hour would bring… Garden progress. And… A giant swarm of bees. From our own beehive. We forgot to read the book, which said in chapter 1: … Continue reading →

Once again, it is very clear that I am a fair weather builder. A week’s rain is a week’s laziness, but when it goes all sunny and nice, I’m quite up for long days of work. And it’s just beginning … Continue reading →

It was a blessedly gorgeous weekend for working outside, so we got all sorts of stuff done that we’d been planning and (as often happens) got distracted by other stuff we hadn’t even realised we’d needed to do. Anna swept … Continue reading →

We got back from a trip to Vermont to find that our house-sitter had expanded our plant collection nicely, cleaned up all the potted plants and generally made the place much nicer. So in celebration, I went to the garden … Continue reading →

Well, it seems to be going well, so I think we can now start considering Jack our cat. Lily tolerates him a lot better than she did Balthazar, and he’s mature enough not to go looking for trouble with her. … Continue reading →