Archive for the ‘Thoughts’ Category

Think Outside of the Tree !!

Posted on December 5, 2011 at 1:37 pm

If you didn’t already go out this weekend and buy your Christmas tree and are excited to kick off the Christmas celebrations, then I’m going to refer you back to my blog post – To Tree or Not To Tree…? Here I give a little history of the Christmas tree and look at a couple… Read more ›

A Way of Looking at What We Do…

Posted on November 30, 2011 at 4:55 pm

This blog moves a little away from the garden/nature theme to share a piece of work written while I was working in the hospitality industry. It deals with the principals involved in a transaction and I’m posting it because I feel that it has uses in pretty much any industry or circumstance where an exchange… Read more ›

National ‘Cook From The Cupboards’ Week!

Posted on November 8, 2011 at 4:06 pm

Ok, at the risk of painting myself in an inappropriate light for someone pushing their business into stratospheric proportions, suffice it to say that although I have exciting projects gestating they are not yet fledged and I have found myself ‘resting’ for a period – of course I’m not resting, I’m doing the things in… Read more ›

To you who shot the stag…

Posted on October 30, 2011 at 9:26 pm

You have probably seen or heard in the news last week that a 250lb, 19 point-antler stag was shot dead by a poacher or trophy hunter on Exmoor. The Red Deer (Cervus elaphus,) nicknamed the Goodleigh Giant, stood nearly 9ft tall and was thought to be destined to grow into one of the largest wild… Read more ›

The earth and the heavens…

Posted on March 17, 2011 at 1:32 pm

I came across this paragraph in Les Miserables. It is writing about the Bishop of  D– in his garden.

What’s new in green garages ?

Posted on February 16, 2011 at 8:44 pm

When you force things they tend to break !

Posted on February 10, 2011 at 9:29 pm

I said in the January Naturescaping blog that I would like to look at some of the guidelines that I try to work with when working on the land. Last time I spoke of ‘effort’. This time I would like to start with ‘force’. I believe that it is Newton’s third law of motion that… Read more ›

Elbow grease v’s Engine grease.

Posted on January 5, 2011 at 5:08 pm

I’m very aware that I am somewhat behind on my blog feeds, although I am hesitant to name it as a New Year’s resolution I do feel that I would like to put more energy into it this year and would hope to add something once a month. Something that would help me do that… Read more ›

Brambles are, in a sense, incredible warriors!

Posted on February 4, 2010 at 10:13 pm

It struck me, when in a position of being somewhat powerless over a circumstance at work, that I found a renewed zeal for my allotment. Some of this I’m sure was to ‘dig out’ my frustration, but on reflection I wonder if the planning and structuring of my allotment was a subconscious desire for order…. Read more ›

To tree or not to tree..?

Posted on January 18, 2010 at 5:26 pm

  In 1841 Queen Victoria’s new husband Albert introduced a German Christmas tradition into the British royal household. From that point on the Christmas tree has, apart from a small dip in popularity after the death of the Queen, been on the up and up in this country, Western Europe, America and most other parts… Read more ›