We’ve had a pretty good run on nice weather recently and it was a beautiful, sunny day again today. We spent a good portion of our time gardening: cleaning out beds from last year and planting some new flowers.
First, we took a trip down the street to the nursery. River’s friend Alex came along for [...]
Yesterday, the kids and I went to an Apple Day at Calke Abbey. The National Trust has been restoring the gardens and orchards at Calke for a number of years now and the orchards are now producing a wide assortment of locally developed apple varieties. Their apple event showcased these heirloom fruits.
We had slices of [...]
The weather was so nice while I was exploring Hardwick Hall that I spent most of my time exploring the gardens. I wandered down this path, just to see where it would go.
I found many wonderful flowers lingering among the garden beds.
I’m planning to return sometime to spent some more time inside the house and [...]
I’ve been doing some gardening recently. I converted a patch of grass into a garden bed a while back. The vegetables have been growing nicely.
We’ve eaten lettuce out of the garden several times now. River decided we should put the marigold pot in the garden instead of on the wall by the [...]
The cold, windy weather finally cleared off today. My arms are still sore from an enjoyable morning spent climbing at the Nottingham Climbing Centre. Mostly though, I’ve been obsessively re-reading the Harry Potter series. I’m most of the way through the 4,224 pages that chronicle the adventures of the young wizard and [...]
Many of the fields near our house are glowing with the brilliant flowers of the rapeseed plant. Their yellow blanket gives a cheery feel to the landscape
The kids are back at school beginning this week. They were talking about which class they like best the other day and ended up listing them all [...]
Some fairies have built a tiny house on our window sill.
We haven’t been able to spot them working on it yet, but they’ve been quite industrious. I wonder if I can persuade them to help with the housework?
I also thoroughly enjoyed the Henry Moore sculptures at Kew. I wasn’t very familiar with his work before, but I found that it really meshed well with the landscape at Kew. The undulating curves of his sculptures are very naturalistic. I hope you enjoy them as well.
