Dorset in January… Well, Dorset in January if you happen to live in the middle of a wood where the bracken and fern are rampant and where the deer decimate anything which does not have vicious thorns to protect itself. Believe it or not but there is a rather fine hamamelis tree buried under that lot. …
Whitstable beach
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….