Category: Vlog

With temperatures getting too high for gardening again I hunker down at home……and get even hotter! I’m pressing linens and chatting about a conversation with a garden friend which gave me a bit of a light-bulb moment. Plus….a little TMI moment at the end that gets me even more steamy.

With all the watering and garden time recently it feels like an age since I had a chatty catch-up with you…..so while we’re sweltering again I thought we could all do with a time out, maybe with a chilled drink….or ice-lolly, for a natter.

It’s time to go shopping…….but with a difference. This week’s shopping costs a whopping zero pounds! Once the ‘shopping’ is done I chat through my meal planning/meal ideas.

The shed is a bit tidier now so I have space for bringing some harvests in…..today I’m lifting my sad little onions and harvesting my monster Lemon Balm ‘bush’. With a bit of chat about storage and uses. And a ‘before’ and ‘after’ of the shed.

It’s a chatty one as I work. The focus over the last few weeks has been very much on getting the garden planted and keeping it alive with lots of watering….as a result the shed is a chaotic mess. It needs a good sort out and tidy up in readiness for the harvests to come so today I am cracking into that task…..and while I am at it I begin the process of preparing to leave the garden.

It’s the first day of August and time to see how the garden is doing. It’s all about four weeks behind but there are some signs of growth…….and even the first few pickings to be had.

July has been a bit of an odd month………not in a bad way, just a bit fuzzy!

A special couple of days away as I meet up with my sister to collect Aunty Teapot and take her on her last trip. We start in Kent in Teapot’s home town of Westgate-on-Sea before heading to Whitstable (also on the sea), then some time in Canterbury (with a visit to the Cathedral) before heading north…..we have a stop off in Essex at the lovely RHS garden at Hyde Hall where I leave my sister to come back to London…..my sister will carry on north to take Aunty Teapot to her final resting place in beautiful North Yorkshire.

Continuing with our challenge of having a low (or even no) spend year; today I’m tackling the tricky subject of gifting. I say tricky because gifting invariably involves other people……and they may not be on the same page as you regarding spending. Let’s get stuck in.

It’s the end of another hot week here in London…….so hot (40c/104F) it became a bit of a challenge…..fortunately I have had some good stuff to distract me!