~ Bees adore Phacelia!  While you're thinking about your spring and winter garden (you were  thinking about what to grow over wint...

I live about five minutes drive from Kings Cross in North London so when my car is due its MoT, I happily head down to a garage in that ...

Bulb catalogues are thumping through the letterbox so I'm thinking ahead to next year's garden with alliums on my mind. I'...

I don't like jam. I had that thought yesterday morning while trying to sort out some Morello cherry jam that hadn't set proper...

This time last week I was sitting at my computer in a right old blue funk. Thankfully, since then, my week has got a lot better - apart ...

Hoverfly on Linaria leaf While I'm on the subject of bees (last post), I've picked up lots of tweeting in the past few da...

A cookie jar rarely stays full for long in my kitchen; biscuits, as we like to call them in the UK, are a lovely thing to make in your kitch...