31 August 2024
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In this month’s edition of The Garden (the RHS members’ magazine), the featured site for the East Midlands was a place called Hill Close Gardens in Warwick. It isn’t quite on our doorstep but not too far away and so … Continue reading
30 August 2024
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Earlier this week, I was investigating the Bible story about a woman anointing Jesus with expensive perfume. It occurs in all four gospels but there are some significant differences between the accounts – for example, was the perfume poured on … Continue reading
29 August 2024
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Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve spent a lot of time using my garden shredder. That’s mainly because I’ve been helping various friends reduce the size of various trees and large shrubs. For the first one, I brought all … Continue reading
28 August 2024
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I’ve been reacquainting myself with MS Access recently. Since I seem to be mainly in a Windows mode at the moment and since I have an Office365 subscription, I’ve got access to Access and it provides tools for building an … Continue reading
27 August 2024
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The sky is looking greyer than expected but I’m back at the Queen’s Park Café for one last summer outing with Simon and Kev, with me on double bass. Time to start getting loaded up – we’ll be playing from … Continue reading
26 August 2024
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Have you heard that saying, “you’d lose your head if it wasn’t screwed on”? I felt like that today when I realised I’d left my Bible, notebook and pens at St Theo’s church, where I was helping with some music … Continue reading
25 August 2024
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I can’t often make the Café Live events that Rob Newton hosts because they run monthly on Sunday evenings and I’m normally rehearsing with the Charnwood Symphonic Wind Orchestra. However, the next season for that doesn’t start until next week … Continue reading
24 August 2024
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This week, I’ve been doing some garden planning for the autumn and beyond and it is time to get back into germinating some seeds. Today I’ve set off some Pak Choi and Mooli, both oriental vegetables and both towards the … Continue reading
23 August 2024
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I don’t particularly like swatting flies but sometimes they can’t be persuaded to disappear out of an open window or door and so the swat has to come into play. Our swat has been held on the fridge with a … Continue reading
22 August 2024
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I’m still teaching my friend, Tony, some banjo playing. He is keen to have a go at the Ballad of Jed Clampett (theme tune of The Beverly Hillbillies), which was composed by Paul Henning and performed with the banjo part … Continue reading