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A View From The Greenhouse (End Of The World, innit?)

12th July 2022 Colin Cross 3834 Comments

It hardly seems like two minutes since I was writing my last meandering offering and here we are again. It came to my attention, a couple of weeks ago, that I’d never fully installed the [more…]

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A View From The Greenhouse, A “Mini” Postcard, The Right To Choose

28th June 2022 Colin Cross 3134 Comments

I never enter the greenhouse these days without at least a sense of trepidation. The worst’s over, that much is clear and those plants which haven’t been totally ruined, even if they aren’t looking as [more…]

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A View From The Greenhouse; Lies, Damned Lies And Immigration

14th June 2022 Colin Cross 3586 Comments

As you read this, dear friends (assuming you do and you are) I’ll be relaxing, possibly with a pint in hand, somewhere in the North East, on a short break with the wife and the [more…]

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A View From The Greenhouse; (Pain and Loss)

31st May 2022 Colin Cross 2899 Comments

Welcome dear readers; before we get started, a warning. Those of you that aren’t interested in the maudlin, or the philosophy of loss, or the pain which accompanies it, look away now, this isn’t going [more…]

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A View From The Greenhouse; Far Right Extremism (Innit?)

17th May 2022 Colin Cross 3111 Comments

Welcome everyone, to my bi-weekly missive on all things “green”, some things bizarre and some things which may appear “made up” but which most definitely aren’t. Back to something like 90% fitness I’ve spent the [more…]

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A View From The Greenhouse; Bath, A Chance Encounter, Long “Covid”

3rd May 2022 Colin Cross 3158 Comments

It’s been a month now since I last posted from the greenhouse, although, somewhat thankfully, it hasn’t been a month since I visited it. With the arrival of spring we see ewes and lambs arriving [more…]

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A View From The Greenhouse; The Truth Of The Matter

5th April 2022 Colin Cross 3222 Comments

I’ve mentioned the “yawk” up before, although it’s fair to say I may have miss-spelled it in the past. Suffice to say, the term has nothing whatsoever to do with the fine city of York [more…]

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A View From The Greenhouse; This Sporting Life

22nd March 2022 Colin Cross 3395 Comments

Life carries on much as normal, given the increasingly bizarre times we live in. The weather, thankfully, has picked up and jobs that have been on hold for a couple of weeks have risen to [more…]

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A View From The Greenhouse (Putin-Mad, Bad, Or Just Being Vlad)

8th March 2022 Colin Cross 3740 Comments

“It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good” as the saying goes and it’s as true for owners of large glass structures as it is for anyone else. Since my last epistle we’ve faced [more…]

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