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Gardening with Lucy

'Less Haste, more speed' is a quote that frequently rattles around inside my head in terms of stress. My reason for feeling stressed is usually that I've left an important project to the last minute, and I never, ever allow for a time contigency....

The Language of Flowers

Christmas is over. The Christmas decorations are finally packed away. I've given up debating whether or not we should keep my son's 20 metres of home-made 'paper chains' under his bed or not for another year and waved him back off to school dressed in his 'Transformers' hat, scarf and gloves. Ah, peace...

Wettest summer

As the nights draw in and thoughts start to turn to winter coats and christmas I'm still waiting for our summer! I feel, as I'm sure many of you do, very short-changed this year. I'm sure I believe in fate but I do wonder if I sealed the destiny of the British weather this summer when I booked our family camping trip to Cornwall this August....

Family Gardens

My son is going through a stage at the moment. A generous grandparent bought him a power ranger suit as a birthday present and he's refused to take it off since. You name a place, Red Ranger and I have been there...

Room Outdoors

I read recently that more and more people are choosing to work from home. Well, it makes sense I guess. I've worked from home for the last five years and it suits me very well. The only thing that I have come to notice is that you really must be very disciplined...