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A View From The Greenhouse; Check Your White Privilege….Innit?

23rd May 2023 Colin Cross 0

The world turns Postaliers and life moves on apace. This time of year is fraught with many and various dangers though, as we negotiate our way from heatwave to heatwave and through the resultant “Catastrophic [more…]

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A View From The Greenhouse; On Matters Monarchical And Sartorial

9th May 2023 Colin Cross 0

The sheep are back. The rent for the ground is conditional, a bit like having a caravan at the seaside, on it only being “occupied” for a maximum ten months of the year. Consequently, although [more…]

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A View From The Greenhouse; The Un-flushable Turd

25th April 2023 Colin Cross 0

Life carries on apace and although the weather still refuses to settle down, there’s always time in my horrendously busy schedule to take a walk, often with my camera and occasionally with a group of [more…]

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A View From The Greenhouse; Please Make It Stop!

11th April 2023 Colin Cross 0

Finally got the layout finished with the completion of the four (slightly) raised beds. In the final analysis (for this season at least) I decided not to permanently fix them down with corner pegs as [more…]

Diary

A View From The Greenhouse; Eid Mubarak, Suckers

28th March 2023 Colin Cross 0

Along with every other part of the country we’ve had a bit of “Man Climate Change Made Warming Cool Global” weather over the last couple of weeks or so, (more of which later) which has [more…]

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A View From The Greenhouse; Burn Down The Mission

14th March 2023 Colin Cross 0

Welcome once again Postaliers to the continuing adventures of this singularly rough gardener and his occasional “partner in crime”. In this weeks instalment we get radical with a plum tree, find out what “root stock” [more…]

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A View From The Greenhouse; New Beginnings

28th February 2023 Colin Cross 0

It’s that time of year again, when I choose to bore the bi-weekly pants off you all by relating my erstwhile greenhouse adventures and, more often than not, misadventures. As always this “diary” will be [more…]

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A Postcard From India; The Food

14th February 2023 Colin Cross 0

You’ll have heard all the scare stories, especially if you’ve travelled to the Middle East, Eastern Europe or Asia; before we set off I lost count of the number of people who warned me about [more…]

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A Postcard From India; Gandhi, His Politics, The People

31st January 2023 Colin Cross 2

As I’ve said before during this series of posts, following my recent trip to The Sub Continent, India is a land of often stark contrasts. Its population (official figure) is approaching 1.5 billion people, nobody [more…]

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