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Men and Sheds

Published on: October 13, 2015February 12, 2023 by Croft Gardener Category:Island Life, Miscellaneous 25 Comments
Traditional Uist shed

I have serious doubts about the title of this post – should it be “people and sheds” ? As I contemplated the subject matter I began to envisage a whole minefield of political correctness opening before me. If I’m going to be gender neutral do I use the term spouse or is that too elitist?

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The late, late show

Published on: October 9, 2015February 12, 2023 by Croft Gardener Category:Cottage Garden 10 Comments

It is not just the seasons which have been out of kilter this year. I seem to have been doing a Carrollian impression of a white rabbit since Easter. Domestically my life has been topsy-turvy since the builders moved in and seemed reluctant to depart, except when they disappeared leaving me in chaos only to

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National Poetry Day – Seeing the light

Published on: October 8, 2015February 12, 2023 by Croft Gardener Category:Miscellaneous, Poetry 7 Comments

Helios rises Animating the landscape A haiku is born

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From the flowers of the field

Published on: October 2, 2015February 12, 2023 by Croft Gardener Category:Island Life 8 Comments
Cereal field Berneray

We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson The sight of a mixed cereal field on the machair in the Outer Hebrides is sufficient to give any East Anglian cereal baron apoplexy. You would not be

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Wordless Wednesday – Sunset Yellow

Published on: September 30, 2015February 12, 2023 by Croft Gardener Category:Rock Garden & Alpine House, Wordless Wednesday 2 Comments
Agastache-aurantica-Sunset-Yellow

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