One of the great luxuries of having a kitchen garden is being able to be generous with the herbs you use in cooking. Â My herb garden is just a few steps away from the back door which is just as well as his lordship is always requesting herbs for his culinary... 
Apparently there is only one thing worse than people constantly talking about their children, its people that talk about their pets. If that’s the case, then I have to plead guilty as charged. Â There is no getting away from it this blog is littered with basset... 
I know, the blog has changed again. It’s hard to stop myself sometimes. Â This time it’s just a spring clean and software upgrade. Â The previous home page was just too labour intensive to keep updating the photography gallery regularly so I’ve... 
My ironing board entertainment for the last couple of weeks has been to re-watch The Victorian Kitchen Garden. Â This was cult viewing in the 1980s when Head Gardner Harry Dobson spent a year bringing a country house kitchen garden back to life. Â Aside from the... 
Anyone who has worked with a personal trainer knows that they will push you harder than you think you can go on your own. Â In my youthful days of being a competitive athlete I used to hate my coach sometimes for pushing and pushing until you no longer had any pain... 