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Dig this or in my case don't dig it at all.

I have reached a stage in my life and illness, where digging hurts like hell and I just don't have the strength to dig deep anymore.

So when it came to making new gardens at our new abode I thought to hell with all this digging lark I am going in for no-dig gardens. They are so simple to make...

As you may have guessed we have moved to a new abode high on the hills over looking the Hutt Valley and to the south, on a clear day, Wellington harbour and city.

The wild life up here is amazing. This morning as I was making a new garden for our Incredible Edibles (raspberries, guava, plum and apple trees), I was being serenaded by a tui. Well...

I haven't blogged for a while. Things have overtaken the blogging part of my brain including what the word 'blog' stood for and then I found out it means 'web log'. Quite clever how all these words have come into being since the internet began.

It has a language of its own. Twitter is a good one since I thought that's...

I am looking out the window to the north of the valley and there are grey high clouds, yesterday it was clear fine and very warm, tomorrow it will probably be raining. It is possibly snowing somewhere in Great Britain, hailing in Moscow, boiling in Jakarta or flooding in India. I can’t change any of this. No one as far as I know, has any way...

I caught a thrush digging up the garden mulch yesterday. He wasn’t at least shamefaced about being caught; in fact he gave me a sneering look and continued. It wasn’t until I got closer to him that he flew off up to the top of the cherry tree and proceeded to scold me with some rather angry bird-talk.

They seem to like all the mulch in the...