Most readers of this blog will have met Boris (the ginger one) and Arwen. Possibly even in person at Lawn Road or during one of our summer concerts here in the garden in Highgate. Despite the fact that all of their lives had been spent at Lawn Road, they were both very tolerant of the …
Michelle's cats
Autumn in Highgate Lane
I hadn’t actually appreciated, when pulling metres of clinging tendrils out with the over grown ivy earlier in the year, that what I was pulling out was Virginia creeper – which would burst into a brief blaze of crimson glory come the dark days of October – as indeed it has. Fortunately, it is incredibly …
Hampstead Lane update
An April and May with lots of sun and no rain – and a June with lots of rain and no sun – has meant that my lawn has scarcely grown at all. Mind you, to call it a lawn somewhat flatters it as a smooth green sward it definitely is not. However, I did …
FreeFrom Food Awards virtual knees up
So there I was last night, sitting at my desk in the front room all alone with the cats, uploading web pages to the FreeFrom Food Awards site as the category winners were announced. You could have heard a pin drop…. Meanwhile, the virtual me was being viewed 492 times (according to Vimeo)… and that, …
The garden
I promised Micki a tour of the new residence soon and, as I am ‘self-banning’ myself from the heath over the Easter weekend, I thought now was the moment. Although I am afraid that for today it is garden only as the house has been temporarily turned into a film studio so that I can …
Christmas ramblings….
Well, where else could we start but with Boris in his Christmas hat…. To be strictly honest, these are not Christmas but post Christmas Dorset/Wiltshire ramblings, kicking off with most amazing 14th century barn – the longest thatched barn in England according to Wikipedia, now restored to glory and and turned into an art gallery. This …