Are beans what they seem?

I still get nightmares if I think of triffids so I’m ever so careful checking what’s happening down in the kitchen garden in case something starts to stir where it shouldn’t.  You never know what these beans might be in disguise.  It’s the...

Playing hard to get

Bassets can be the most stubborn dogs in the world.  The most willful and uncooperative.  Especially when it comes to being photogenic in the wonderful evening sun.  Do you think I could entice them to play nicely in the sunshine?  I did at least have a lovely...

The finishing post

I may have the completion certificate for building our house but the end is still far away.  Everywhere you turn there is something more needed to finish things off.  But step by step we are working our way through the list.  Like finishing touches to the gate...

When nature works its magic

As if by magic things are growing in the kitchen garden.  It’s been such a pleasure to be staking and tying up the tomatoes, building a brassica netting and spending time admiring how nature works.  I just wished this fennel bulbs were a little more grown up...

Arresting moments

It never ceases to amaze me how when you least expect it a photo moment comes along.  The sun peaking through the grass to illuminate this flower by the door onto the veranda.  Just as I was scooting along at speed and didn’t really have time to stop and...