I think it has been four or five weeks since I visited Sissinghurst. This is unprecedented. It has just been too hot to do anything other than languish in the shade of my own garden. But the temperature temporarily dipped, so I could move again. The castle is being engulfed by planting. That’s the built…
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Returning the egg boxes
I think it is fair to say that most of the UK got a wake-up call with David Attenborough’s BBC documentary series Blue Planet II. The image of the pilot whale carrying her dead baby around will, I hope, stay with me forever. I am using that dead baby whale to remind our children not to…
Up to the highest heights
On Sunday we took Stevie for a hang-gliding lesson. Stevie had made the mistake about a year ago of casually saying it looked fun. I made a mental note and proudly presented him with a gift voucher for his birthday. For some reason it has taken some months for him to book it. We all…
