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Summer – you blew it.
You got handed a golden opportunity on a plate to extend your reign by one full day, legitimately. And what did you choose to do with this one free day – not reign, but rain. All I can say for…
Read MoreBlast from the past: When gardening isn’t gardening at all
Sometimes it is a good idea to look back in time to see how things were at the same period years ago. It is interesting to see four years ago some things were very much the same yet others were…
Read MoreSigns of Spring
And so we have come to the final day of winter. When it comes to the spring and summer I prefer to go by the calendar as it brings the desirable seasons to me quicker. However for Autumn and Winter,…
Read MoreI’m running out of thyme
Well… not exactly. I have enough thyme. It is just it has been in the ground for so long now that the centre is dying out, despite the lush growth and the frequent clippings I’ve been giving it. It tastes…
Read MoreSpring turmoil
October is only two and a half days old and it is already a month of extremes. The first day was gorgeous. The sky was blue and the sun shone brightly and you could almost feel the summer in the…
Read MoreHolding out for a pea!
I am watching rain going across the hills in the distance sideways and now it is so heavy I can’t see the hills at all. Seriously, when is all this going to stop! There is water everywhere. The ground is…
Read MoreRain delays play
In the last 30 days we have had 26 days of rain and of those 14 had over 5mm. To be completely honest with you I did round up two days from 4.8 to the nearest whole number. One day…
Read MoreAnd today is going to be…..
When you’re not in it, your thoughts of winter are images of endless, cold, wet and miserable days. But once you are there in the heart of the cold season, sometimes it surprizes you and you get some days where…
Read MoreYou could say we had a bit of rain…
Not last night but the night before we had a huge storm the wreaked havoc throughout the country. There were 170km an hour winds and some areas got a month load of rain in a day. It was pretty wild…
Read MoreI think I broke the drought!
We haven’t had any rain in absolutely ages. In January we had 40mm of rain and while it felt like it was a wet and miserable summer only 10 rainy days were actually wet and most of it came from…
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