Arts
Postcard From Borrowdale
It seems an age now since I wrote about the 40 things we were going to do to celebrate our 40th wedding anniversary. To give you some idea, in 8 weeks we’ll have been married [more…]
Photography
Arts
Gardening In A Pandemic & Adventures in Photography; The Living World
Welcome back to the greenhouse. I touched on it briefly in my last missive from the garden, but one of the problems with having an inordinate amount of time on ones hands is finding something [more…]
Diary
Signs and Pottering; Rough Gardening During A Pandemic
For what seems like weeks now I’ve been describing, in laconic detail, just how tough it is keeping a 600 (or so) square foot greenhouse in an adequate enough state of repair to do its [more…]
Arts
Ooh, Aar A Progress Report On Rough Vegetable Gardening
Hello folks, being a rough old gardener has both pitfalls and rewards. The greenhouse itself has obviously seen better years and it’s a bit like Triggers rake. It’s the same greenhouse that was erected, along [more…]
Arts
Ooh, Aar, A Guide To Rough Vegetable Gardening Part 4
Hello folks and welcome to part four of a guide to rough veg growing. It’s impossible to grow vegetables, even roughly, without a large number of containers, a decent space to work the magic, an [more…]
Arts
Artwork In My Home – Part One
Finding myself with lots of spare time on my hands I thought it might be interesting for one or two Puffins on GP if I shared pictures of some of the artwork in my home. [more…]
Arts
Postcard from the Past: Noss
Despite being in the Shetland Isles, Noss is one of the more accessible seabird colonies in the British Isles, at least for humans. There is a small roll-on roll-off car ferry from the centre of [more…]
Gardening
Ooh, Aarr, A Guide To Rough Vegetable Gardening, Part 3
Hello Folks, the pace is hotting up and we’re closing in on the really good part of rough vegetable gardening, apart from the harvesting that is; it’s time to get things in the ground that [more…]
Arts
Postcard from the Past: Ailsa Craig
Most people will be familiar with Ailsa Craig as the big rock on the horizon during the ferry journey between Loch Ryan in Galloway and Ulster. It stands as a sentinel at the seaward end [more…]