24 April 2022
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I’ve made a start on the holiday snaps with this picture of the amazing foxglove trees (Paulownia tormentosa) that decorate St Peter’s Square: It seems that April is a good time to catch them in flower and the purple blossoms … Continue reading
24 March 2022
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Poor trees. They work hard to grow, from a tiny seedling that looks much like other plants to a mighty mass of roots, trunk and leaves and then someone comes and cuts them down. Yesterday, one of those tree cutters … Continue reading
10 March 2022
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Compared to last week’s tree planting, today’s Green Gym was a bit more destructive. I was working with the group at Outwoods on collecting fallen branches and pulling up brambles. The branches went to be shredded, along with a couple … Continue reading
18 February 2022
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It’s been a stormy day in Loughborough but not a patch on other parts of UK, particularly in the south for today’s gales (and the north for the ones earlier this week). I think one of my neighbours is going … Continue reading
10 February 2022
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I was up at Outwoods for a ‘green gym’ session. Normally it runs on Wednesday mornings, when I tend to be busy, but it got shifted this week and I jumped at the chance to take part. This morning’s task … Continue reading
22 December 2021
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Today’s Green Gym session involved taking down some birch trees at Outwoods. Birch is a lovely tree but relatively short-lived and wide-spreading, so this will make space for other native trees to grow up strongly. I’ve taken down some small … Continue reading
7 March 2021
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What a gorgeous day today! After lunch, we spend the afternoon in the garden working on various things. The last of the stumps came out and I got a pile of stuff shredded up for the compost heap. The main … Continue reading
12 December 2020
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I wonder how many trees I would have to plant to offset my carbon emissions over my life time? It’s a hard figure to calculate but, if you took all the car, bus, train and plane journeys (and perhaps a … Continue reading
22 October 2020
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There is some wonderful in our garden – and beyond. In previous houses I’ve owned, the back garden has ended in a fence, beyond which is someone else’s garden and house. In our new place, the garden backs onto the … Continue reading
17 July 2018
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When we first moved into our present house, about eight years ago, you could clearly see the back bedroom of a house in the next road. Nothing too untoward but sometimes you would see the young man living there doing … Continue reading