The Good, The Sad and The Freaky

Posted on 25th January 2011 in Bugs, Crazy Car Man, Field at the Front, Just Stuff, Side of the House Garden, Sunflowers, Vegetables

I would love to be a lady of the land – in much the same way that I’d love to be the lady who ate all the pies – but in both instances I don’t think my heart could handle the strain.

Farming is for the strong and for the gamblers. Or maybe the ability to gamble comes first and the strength is merely a subsidiary skill. Either way, so much of the process is left, quite literally, in the hands of someone else. In this instance, Ma N, who we all know is going through a bit of a tanty phase. And my goodness, is she not screwing up a lot of livelihoods right now?
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The Face of Evil

Posted on 10th January 2011 in Crazy Car Man, Field at the Front, Sunflowers, Update

Do not be fooled by the pristine whiteness of it’s plumage. This bird has a soul as black as the pits of Hades. Blacker even – as black as Hades’ pits after a hard day chopping wood. It’s purpose in life is to make me run screaming out of the house, waving my arms and shrieking like a banshee. And the little snotrag waits until I’m within whacking distance before shrieking back and then taking to the heavens on it’s pristine white wings of wrath inducement.
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2010 Round Up

Posted on 2nd January 2011 in Carnivorous Plants, Chickens, Cooking, Crazy Car Man, Field at the Front, Foreign Lands, Hugh of River Cottage, Just Stuff, Musings, Not For Eating, Round Up, Sunflowers, The Bush, The England Files, Update

2010 was an absolute corker of a year. This garden malarkey sunk it’s teeth in with a vengeance and quite suddenly I was looking at the world with new eyes. I fell off a motorbike and got married in a Lahu hilltribe ceremony, I fell off a step and discovered Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, I got a new job and found a new career. And I grew loads of plants, battled snails and weeds, contended with Mother Nature’s temper tantrums, experimented madly, got things badly wrong and occasionally got them right.
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Have a Crazy Christmas

Posted on 24th December 2010 in Christmas, Sunflowers

Wishing you a fabulous, safe and happy holiday season.

Cheers from Crazy Garden Lady, Crazy Car Man, Crazy Garden Lady’s Mum (Carmen Miranda), Crazy Garden Lady’s Sister from London who escaped the cold for a hot Chrissy and of course, the Happy Sunflowers x

(no sunflowers died in the making of the Happy Santa Sunflower – Ma N chucked another tanty last night and like the Red Queen called ‘off with their heads’ and so it happened.  I managed to save the corn though)

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