Wood Stuff
These are all the posts in the “wood stuff” category, part of the “making” section.
I’ve just taking advantage of another lovely autumn morning to cut some more wood for use over winter. I was enjoying the sweet victory of finishing another log when I accidentally grazed the blade of the saw against my finger. It’s nothing – the hint of a graze, it drew red but not drops of [...]
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I had some company while cutting the kindling this morning. Lily was taste-testing each stick as it came off the axe. “Mmm, bit of a woody flavour.” And a few minutes later, after Lily had gone into a sulk because she’d heard the fake camera click of my phone (she HATES all cameras for some [...]
A few weeks ago, our next door neighbour with the gorgeous show house revamped his garden for summer. His deck is decorated like a room of the house (including an old vintage dresser, which looks fab with bedding plants draped out of the drawers and is currently topped with a birdcage and some matching framed [...]
Continue reading about Adventures in frugal vertical gardening: salvaged planters
Yesterday, we went to see John’s mum & dad, and spotted that one of their neighbours had put a fancy (curtain) pelmet out on the street in front of their house to be taken away – either by John’s dad (who they know is a salvager of random things or by a scrap person). I [...]
Cor, I feel like I’ve not written here for weeks! Like Christmas, Easter doesn’t mean anything to us here – not even the consumption of chocolate – so we’ve just had four days of doing nothing. Well, not doing nothing… On Friday, I spent a lot of time reading about Square Foot Gardening. It’s something [...]
Last night on Twitter, I asked people to put their hands up if they’d had a lovely afternoon in their garden/at their allotment yesterday and I got a sea of hands waving back – it is really bloody lovely out there at the moment, isn’t it?* On Saturday, I blew my no spending month thing [...]
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