Hello and welcome to my June Newsletter. Like many people, after over two years of barely going anywhere, we have recently had a couple of short breaks. In April we spent a couple of days in Great Malvern, a place we had never been before...
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My May 2022 Newsletter
Hello and welcome to my May Newsletter. May is my favourite month of the year because everything is so fresh and green and I love the plants that flower now - primroses, bluebells, and wood anemones. Over the Easter weekend, we went for a local walk...
My April 2022 Newsletter
Hello and welcome to my April Newsletter. I always thought the month of March was supposed to come in like a lion and go out like a lamb, but it seems to have been the opposite this year. We had some lovely warm sunny weather in the middle of the month but...
My March 2022 Newsletter
Hello and welcome to my March Newsletter My garden is looking lovely at the moment. The snowdrops are past their best but they have been replaced with masses of crocuses and small Tete a Tete daffodils. Mind you, like many people, we did take quite a...
My February 2022 Newsletter
Hello and welcome to my February Newsletter. It's hard to believe we are into February already when Christmas doesn't seem that long ago. Mind you, we only got around to having a Christmas meal with all the family recently as several had covid during...
Happy New Year: My January 2022 Newsletter
Hello and a Happy New Year! I hope you all had a good Christmas and New Year? My Christmas was a little mixed - some parts good and some not so much. We were going to swap presents with Stuart, my eldest son, and his wife, Laura, on Christmas Eve, but they had become...
My December 2021 Newsletter
Hello and welcome to my December newsletter. Well, it won't be long now until Christmas! Fingers crossed the new covid variant doesn't upset everyone's plans. I'm feeling pretty organised at the moment. It was a relief to get my third book published and be able to...
My November 2021 Newsletter
Hello and welcome to my November Newsletter. I was looking back over my newsletters earlier and realised that I sent my first one out in November 2020. Where has the time gone? Last year I wrote that a vaccine for Covid was in sight and that, hopefully, there might be...
My October 2021 Newsletter
Hello and welcome to my October Newsletter. What lovely weather we have had during October, but sadly the sunshine has left us now, and as I write this it is pouring with rain outside. I guess it had to come sooner or later. I've made the most of the dry...
My September 2021 Newsletter
Hello and welcome to my September newsletter. I seem to be having a very busy summer this year. We have quite a big garden, laid mostly with lawns and flower beds, and keeping it tidy sometimes feels like painting the Forth Bridge. I work my way...
My August 2021 Newsletter
Hello and welcome to my August newsletter. Well, what a difference in the weather this week. A week or so ago we were in the Lake District, basking in glorious sunshine and now it is blowing a gale and pouring with rain. This was a holiday we should have taken...
July 2021 Newsletter
Hello and welcome to my July newsletter. This is always a busy time of year for me as I'm torn between lots of jobs in the garden, writing, or watching Wimbledon. I did a bit of all three yesterday. In the morning we went to our allotment and picked peas...