It’s amazing what you find when you lift a few leaves in your kitchen garden. Today I found two cucumbers and three courgettes ready for picking. More beetroot were bursting through to the surface so I whipped them out as well. All of these will be making it into our picnic hamper for some special [...]
An affirmation used by Wellingtonians to get them through the cloudy, wet and windy says is to remind ourselves that “You can’t beat Wellington on a good day”. These good days have been few and far between this summer so with the sun up and few clouds in the sky I took the camera to [...]
This is what little basset thinks of me taking his photo when he’s on the run. What a charmer. I’m still trying to master the camera working in the darkness of the forest where my new lens makes it much more possible to work in the low light conditions. Next few days are forecast for [...]
This time last year we had scoffed our pea crop so I was imagining another flop crop this year. But lo and behold it looks like we might be in luck for a special Easter treat this year. There’s nothing like a bowl of fresh peas although I have plans for a perfect pea and [...]
Amazing how some cheap fancy pants gates can transform your vegetable patch into a kitchen garden. Not only do they look great they are great barriers to bassets and other long eared fluffy tailed friends. I feel like we have a show garden right here in our back yard. Looking back on those posts of [...]
A little like the finishing post, the final jewel in the front garden crown is almost in place. MT is plotting municipal planting schemes for the traffic island. I am thinking more rambling roses and lots of mulch. The bassets are thinking – new play pen!
I didn’t know it the time but the line of sight to the kitchen garden from the bedroom window is perfect. It’s the first thing that I see when I first open the curtains in the morning and the last thing I see when I close them at night. Every day I look down and [...]
There is something prehistoric about the way a basset moves. Perhaps it’s the low slung body and enormous paws like crocodiles feet. Having seen crocodiles in Australia I know I’d rather have a basset hound coming towards me across sand.
Switching off auto on your camera and going manual is like taking the stabilisers off your bike when you’ve only just learnt to ride. Although I’ve flown solo with my camera for a while the one part that I’ve never really cracked is the using the shutter speed to lead the photographic settings. This is [...]
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