Dandelion Soup

Garden Archive: March 2019

My first experience of the beck flooding. Photo taken to get an idea of how far the water extends re. plant habitat boundaries

Garden Archive: winter 2017/18

Photos from before I lived here, when perfect lawn was order of the day. The previous people who lived here had visiting grandkids, and the people before them were an older couple who had lived here since the house was originally built. There’s a lot of mature trees (will have been planted in the 70s/80s/90s […]Read Post ›

Website Update

I’ve had multiple changes in the pets I keep over the past 4 years, mostly on account of declining health. Which of course left even less time and fewer spoons for writing about them. Then in 2018 I moved house, twice. I’ve gone from having a tiny amount of outside space (mostly bins and strawberries […]Read Post ›

Nothing says spring like half a tree

Growing up, I was never really someone who enjoyed warm weather. This was partly down to being a winter baby, partly down to preferring to wrap up warm than be too hot, partly because colder weather had fewer people out of doors so it was easier to go outside for peace, and partly because London […]Read Post ›

Tank topper mods

Update October 2019: I no longer have any gerbils, and I sold both this tank&topper and a subsequent DIY tank&topper a couple of years back. However throughout the period where I wasn’t updating this website at all, this page has kept regular viewing figures. So I’ll leave it live in the hope that it’ll still […]Read Post ›

ShinyNew

From 2011-2014 I had a website, Toothbrush Rats, for my pets. Rats were my primary pet at that point (hence the name) although everyone else eventually sneaked in too. Last autumn Weebly had a security breach and even though I had backed up the website, it turns out that for some utterly bizarre reason they […]Read Post ›