Yesterday could have been a disaster: we not only ran out of milk but found, when we got to our local shop, that they had almost run out too. Luckily, they had a whole truckload of the stuff being unloaded just as we arrived. (Now that’s what I call perfect timing.) We only had to [...]

It’s often said that there’s no such thing as a free lunch, but thanks to Hovis, you can at least have a free sandwich. Shana filled out a short online survey on Farcebook last week, and yesterday evening a courier’s van turned up with a free loaf of Hovis Hearty Oats bread, which is apparently [...]

A couple of weeks ago, we planted about 200 assorted bulbs in our back border around the pyracantha bushes. As with all gardening projects, we don’t like to get our hopes up too much. If they grow, they grow, we said. If not, well, at least they weren’t too expensive. It’s all a bit of [...]

Our weed patch/wannabe wildflower meadow now has at least two ‘proper’ plants growing in it: cornflower (which, admittedly, is described as an arable weed in some books), and a couple of beautiful deep-orange Siberian wallflowers. Both of the above were listed on the pack of two million seeds that we scattered last autumn, so we [...]