We’re well into May, and there’s still no end in sight to the rain. In the poly-tunnel my chitting potatoes are perfectly ready for planting, while a few are beginning to throw out long, spindly shoots that will be too fragile to plant if I leave them much longer. What should I do? Wait a [...]

Well, weeds are my nemesis. I absolutely hate weeds. They drive me nuts and stop me getting on with what I like to think of as proper gardening. This last torrential six weeks of weather has driven my weeds to take on triffid like proportions. I swear that if I walk round the garden that [...]

At the bottom of the garden my gooseberry and redcurrant cordons stand like three verdant tridents, rising from a sea of soggy green lawn. Behind them, three blackcurrants raise their rain soaked branches to catch the drips from the overhanging lilac. This past month of rain and cold has called a halt to progress in [...]

Today i went to meet my first household! I was a little nervous and double checked the website and my folder as to what I was to do. I needn’t have worried, just filling in the registration together was a great way to start the conversation and find out what my household would like to [...]

I am engaged in something of a losing battle in the playground at the moment, as every encounter with other parents seems to begin with another complaint about the ‘disgusting weather’. Isn’t it strange that the same people also like to complain about hosepipe bans? I’m not pretending that a fortnight of entertaining children through [...]