After quite a few years of growing veg in our little city garden I’ve decided to give flowers a go this year. I started with bulbs thinking even I can’t mess them up but hadn’t banked on the crazy weather this spring. My snowdrops tried to come up to early because Christmas was so mild […]
gardening
Top tips for getting kids involved in the garden
Gardening has become a much more popular hobby for younger people over the last few years. Before we had kids Hubs and I would regularly spend a happy afternoon pottering round a garden centre and find ourselves chatting about tomato plants over dinner with friends. Now we’re trying to find ways to encourage the boys […]
The Versatile Blogger Award
My 5 Guilty PleasuresI’ve been tagged by in a new meme by both the delicious Mother Venting and lovely Pudding Girl. They have kindly given me the Versatile Blogger Award so a big Thank You to both of them for that. It is a bit of a double-edged sword though as with this great accolade comes great responsibility. The rules are: […]
#Silentsunday – 18/9/11
5 Posts You Should Read This Week
This week T has been feeding ALL THE TIME which, combined with the appearance of his first two teeth, has not been a wholly enjoyable experience from my point of view particularly as only having one hand free at a time has rather hampered my attempts at blogging. On the up-side, one hand is all you need […]
My Garden in the Sun
I’ve been a bit distracted from blogging over the last week or so. We’ve had a lovely wedding to go to and I’ve been trying to make the most of the nice weather by getting out into the garden with the boys. Here’s a little bit of what we’ve managed to grow this year.