These long, drowsy, lethargic days of summer tend to disappear in a bit of a haze, the weeks melding together. June is over before I’d hardly realised it had begun. Emails back up in my inbox awaiting replies; text messages go unanswered for weeks; my laptop is checked perfunctorily in the evenings. Any spare moments … Continue reading A bit of this and a bit of that
Daily life
At Blogtacular
Conferences don’t tend to be my cup of tea. For a start, the cups of tea are always tiny. You have to drink at least three to equal a normal mug size. But it’s not the tiny teas that are the worst thing. Not by a long shot. It’s all the bloody networking. It reminds … Continue reading At Blogtacular
Cotswold Wildlife Park: where garden design meets rhinos
Over the half term week we had a holiday – of sorts – down in Somerset. I say "of sorts" as the kids were both a little bit grouchy and clingy for much of the week and I returned home feeling somewhat exhausted. We were staying in a wonderful, atmospheric holiday cottage with a huge, … Continue reading Cotswold Wildlife Park: where garden design meets rhinos
You call this June?
June eh? I've got to confess, I've had the heating on these past two evenings. And looking out of the window, I can see that one of my tomato plants has been blown over in the winds. Sigh. Good old English summers... Moaning aside, I dashed out of the back door the other evening, and … Continue reading You call this June?
Turning one
We're just back from a lovely week in Somerset and I've got lots of photos I want to share with you of some of the beautiful places we visited. However, since I think I would need to change this blog's name to Gardens wot I have visited if I were to follow on with yet … Continue reading Turning one
Painshill Park: the weirdness of landscape gardens
Hot on the heels of my trip to Eltham Palace to check out the 1930s planting, yesterday saw me visiting Painshill Park in Surrey, this time to visit an 18th century landscape garden. A bit of potted garden history for anyone interested. The "landscape" style of gardening became popular in the UK around the 1700s; … Continue reading Painshill Park: the weirdness of landscape gardens
Falling in love again
Of course we loved our house when we first bought it. You’ve got to really love a collection of bricks to hand over the best part of half a million pounds, after all. I remember when we first viewed it: I was seven months pregnant, we were looking at 13 houses that weekend and we … Continue reading Falling in love again
Loving the 1930s: Eltham Palace day trip
I always wonder, at some point in a blissful three day bank holiday weekend, whether every single weekend would be as good if everyone only worked a four day week all the time. Surely so much office working is just faffing around, chatting, making coffee, checking emails and so on, that actually it could all … Continue reading Loving the 1930s: Eltham Palace day trip
All quiet on the blogging front
I’ve been a little quieter than normal on the blog recently. But don’t worry, I’m not stuck in the same lethargic funk as I was all over the winter In fact, quite the opposite. Chez Wolves in London has been a crazy hive of activity recently. The littlest is going to be one in just … Continue reading All quiet on the blogging front
A few flowers
We continued with Operation Sort-out-the-garden this weekend. It’s an ongoing attempt, that's been running for about, oooh, the 2.5 years we’ve lived in this house. It’s not that I’m not crazy on gardening or that I’m not actually really quite desperate to have a garden that's nice to sit in... it’s just that we’re also … Continue reading A few flowers
Wolves in London 