Gwenfar's Garden and other musings
Notes on growing ornamentals and edibles, and musings on other matters that interest me.
The Peak District is very close to Sheffield, in fact so close parts of Sheffield are in the Peak District. We haven’t had much of a chance to visit since moving to Sheffield at the end of March, so with …
Outside the Isis Farmhouse, Iffley Lock, Oxford After living in Oxford for c. 15 years, we will be leaving for Sheffield, Yorkshire on Monday. We are planning to go to our favourite Oxford pub one last time tomorrow, and this …
This is the 3rd in a series of blogs based on my recent visits to Singapore and Australia. Dry and big sky, good for vines Yarra Valley: from De Bortoli winery A visit to Melbourne isn’t really complete without a …
The first goodbye in Oxford, as the house sale and move to Sheffield gets closer, was to the wonderful Oxford World Development Movement Group. On Tuesday evening we attended our last meeting before going to the pub for a goodbye …
This is the 2nd in a series of blogs based on my recent visits to Singapore and Australia. The Singapore Botanic Gardens takes up a large part of the island of Singapore (183 acres), and is one of Singapore’s greatest …
This is the first in a series of blogs based on my recent visits to Singapore and Australia. Singapore is a large metropolitan city, with 5 million people on it’s small island (only 272 sq miles). The thing that strongly …
Why Sheffield? The first question everyone asks us when we tell friends and colleagues that we are moving from Oxford to Sheffield. It’s a good question as anyone who knows us will know we don’t have any particular connection to …
Several friends have asked us about the process we used for making our decision on where we might want to move (moving to Sheffield if you haven’t seen the other posts!) to in order to try out new work and ideas. …