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What will you be doing in your garden this spring?

Monday, March 1st, 2010

The chances are that your garden has been left unattended over the chilly winter. My own garden hasn’t had much attention since late November/early December when Christmas was looming large and so there were plenty of other distractions. The wet, snowy winter that set in at the beginning of the new year has slowed down [...]

Awesome Image of Frozen UK from NASA – 7th Jan 2009

Friday, January 8th, 2010

Just found this amazing image of the UK blanketed in frost and snow.
We don’t get this kind of weather that often in the UK (I’ve heard 1963 and 1982 mentioned) so it is a bit of a novelty. It’s obviously a novelty my local council who seem to have on gritting lorry zooming around ineffectually [...]

London gripped by frost, at last.

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

OK, maybe ‘gripped’ is a bit strong but I was glad of my scarf and gloves this morning when I dropped the kids at school. The ponds were frozen in the local park and the water fowl were seen to be skating around.
I a temperate climate such as in the UK we get used to [...]