Gwenfar's Garden and other musings
Notes on growing ornamentals and edibles, and musings on other matters that interest me.
Gwenfar I have been interested in Permaculture for a few years now, and have recently been trying to apply it more readily in my daily life. I feel permaculture principles offer a positive alternative to the corporatist, capitalist, anti-nature and neo-con …
Last Saturday was members Potato Day at Garden Organic. I think I’ve gone nearly every year for the last 10 or so years, apart from last year. We moved house the day before and Kevin was deaf to my view …
I’ve just been reading through my Feministing RSS feeds, and came across the laugh of the week, for sure. Apparently Apple computers has named it’s new tablet thingy – iPad. hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha And the pic they doctored is hilarious, viz: Feministing …
After a productive 18-months working at INASP, my contract ended last Wed (20th). As a goodbye gift, they very thoughtfully choose something garden-related that I’ve always wanted: a years’ subscription to the Garden Organic Overseas Organic Support Group. Through this group, …
It’s been a couple of weeks since I’ve blogged. I’ve been finishing up at my job at INASP and busy applying and preparing for interviews and it’s rather taken over a bit. However, I did finally get down to the …
I was just wandering around the gardening and cookbook section at Waterstones today (they are next to each other) and out of the corner of my eye I saw the words ‘girls’ and ‘dirty’. Swinging back to take a closer …
I did manage to get down to my lottie today. I was clearly the only one who bothered, as I had pristine smooth snow to walk through (nearly 2ft deep) to get through the gate and to my plot. And …
A couple of hours on from my last post and the snow is really really heavy. In this picture, my usually 6-8ft Bamboo (Phyllostachy Nigra) which is the bottom-left to middle section of the photo, has been crushed under the …
The weather people have been promising for days and days, but FINALLY we got the heavy snow that Kevin and I have been waiting for. Here is the back garden this evening as the snow was falling. Hoping it won’t …
We bought a new doona* and barely got it on the bed before Merlyn claimed it as his. *Doona is the Aussie word for Duvet. I prefer Doona, it sounds snug and warm. Duvet sounds like Bidet, and well, I …