Before accepting that I must keep my old tumbledown greenhouse in the garden, for the time being at least, I spent a long time searching online for a greenhouse slash garden shed slash potting house. It seemed such a straightforward idea to me. One little building that housed plants, tools, and all that junk that … Continue reading I want this so badly
Author: Wolves in London
Pimp my greenhouse
As spring turns to summer, my thoughts turn to the unwieldy beast at the end of my garden. I speak, of course, of my greenhouse. When we first moved in, I planned, immediately, to replace it with something sophisticated like this: Then I saw the price tag. And so, I must reconcile myself to living … Continue reading Pimp my greenhouse
Pretty soap packaging
Since moving back to our house after the builders moved out, we’ve only succeeded in getting two rooms anywhere near a finished condition. The kitchen has a single coat of paint up on the walls, but that at least makes it look better than everywhere else where the bare plaster sings out in all its … Continue reading Pretty soap packaging
The original ickle trousers
Sometimes you come across a craft pattern so great you can’t help but make it time and again. Sure, you think you to yourself, I could try out a different pattern this time round. I could make something new that I’ve not made before. In fact I probably should try out something new. Who knows? … Continue reading The original ickle trousers
Garden moodboard: June
I love my garden, but it sometimes feels as if I am in constant battle with it. And it with me. When I first started taking photographs for these garden moodboards, in May last year, I imagined that by the following year my whole entire garden would look beautiful, not just the odd flower. More … Continue reading Garden moodboard: June
Making stuff and pootling in the garden
Back in November last year I took part in a blogging course run by Holly Becker of Decor8 (www.bloggingyourway.com). At the end of the month-long course, Holly chose six blogs to critique and produced a screencast looking at those blogs. Guess what? My humble little Wolves in London was one of those blogs! Yes, that’s … Continue reading Making stuff and pootling in the garden
An impatient gardener
Last Autumn we spent a weekend laying new turf in our garden and re-shaping the flower beds. In the beds, we dug out all the bulbs and plants (regular readers won’t be surprised to hear that 80 per cent of the plants were rhododendrons) with the plan that the following weekend, once the soil had … Continue reading An impatient gardener
A love of trees
If you follow me on Instagram, you’ll know have a bit of a penchant for photographing flowers. (For which read, my feed is stuffed full of floral photos, mostly taken on my daily wanderings round Peckham Rye Park.*) But there was another reason that my feed was 90% flowers: my crappy iPhone 3 which objected … Continue reading A love of trees
Growing, growing, growing
With a May bank holiday weekend coming up, and everything settling back to normal life after the arrival of sproglet two, I'm hoping to spend quite a bit of time out in the garden. Everything, but everything, needs attention. The weeds are rampant. There are veg seedlings in the greenhouse outgrowing their tiny planting modules … Continue reading Growing, growing, growing
Rainbow chevron baby blanket
Prepare yourself, gentle readers, for some photos of... ...my favourite thing I've ever knit! Whipped up in a mere few weeks of late-pregnancy knitting fever, I present to you this rainbow chevron baby blanket, a present for my brand new nephew. I dillied and dallied about what to make for him, knowing that he was … Continue reading Rainbow chevron baby blanket
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