Some of you will have read Alisha’s great post about the progress her collection of chilli plants is making. I’m pleased to say that I took possession of one of her Super Chile plants in April, after she was so lovely as to bring it all the way up from London to Leeds on a… Continue reading Super Chile

I’d love to say that we’ve been making good progress with the allotment. That would be a lie. Instead, I’ll say we’ve made *some* progress. Trev had done lots of rock moving and started to tidy up – and then we had what felt like three weeks of solid rain. So of course, the weeds… Continue reading Allotment Update

I wrote last August about some work that we’d done to put a little herb garden in the shared communal space at the front of the house together with putting a few bits in the yard to add a bit of colour. Our little herb garden looked like this: Unfortunately, due to the lack of… Continue reading Our Back Yard

On Saturday while I was teaching my learn to spindle spin class (5 newbies aspinnerated, yay!) Trev wandered off to the allotment treasurer’s house, paid our rent for the year and collected our key. So yesterday we took the short walk over to our allotment and started trying to wrap our head around the scale… Continue reading Allotment