Apart from admiring the beauties of Sarah’s finely turned sods when I visited her last week, we also took a walk (with Harold obviously) along Whitstable Beach. It looked so very English and wintry I feel I needed to share… And if you look on the right in the next image you will see what …
Winter gardening
Gardeners seem to be divided these days between the traditionalists who like to ‘put a garden to sleep for the winter’ and those who have bought into the theory that you should just abandon a winter garden to get on with itself. Abandoning it allows wildlife to do its ‘thing’ before you get going on …
Newsletter and garden update
Regular recipients of the FoodsMatter newsletter may have noticed that it has been conspicuous by its absence since August. I am afraid that, not only have there been a great many pressing tasks to perform since James’ unexpected death in late August, but he had a somewhat complicated way of mailing it which was several …
A celebration of James’ life and work
As many of you will know, on August 24th, James, my partner for over 50 years, died suddenly after a very short and totally unexpected illness. If you had come across James it would either have been as the FoodsMatter/FreeFrom Awards webmaster and IT guru or as our video cameraman. But he had another life …
And now for the evening….
Looking out of my office window at about 4.15… and half an hour later looking out the other side of the house….
Sky over Belsize Park….
7am this morning…. …and 10 minutes later…. Five minutes after that it had all gone.