by Tylluan Penry | Jun 18, 2015 | Tylluan's Blog
Poets and writers – let alone gardeners! – have tried for centuries to describe their perfect garden. It isn’t easy, but at least they’ve tried, and in the process created some wonderful, lyrical work. Not so some would-be arbiters of taste,...
by Tylluan Penry | Jun 15, 2015 | Tylluan's Blog
How did your day begin? Mine was not good. Well, I’ve certainly known better. At breakfast I cut my gum on a cornflake due to a combination of missing teeth and bad gums (caused by some of the meds I take). And then, after breakfast, I managed to jam my...
by Tylluan Penry | Apr 2, 2015 | Tylluan's Blog
I first blogged this (true) story back in about 2007 I think, but every so often I am overwhelmed with the desire to blog it again. Because there is really nothing quite like it, I feel. At least, not in my experience, I’m pleased to say. For this is a tale...
by Tylluan Penry | Mar 30, 2015 | Tylluan's Blog
Yesterday (Sunday) I posted on Facebook that I thought there was a Spiderwight in the outside loo. (Only I wrote Spiderwiht instead – sorry for any confusion… fingers had a mind of their own, methinks.) Anyway, I promised I would write some more about this...
by Tylluan Penry | Mar 20, 2015 | Tylluan's Blog
I was really excited about the eclipse today. I wasn’t expecting anything spectacular and I certainly wasn’t going to risk looking at the sun (since I don’t have any suitable glass to hand and if I fill a bucket of water than Noah usually sticks his head in it...
by Tylluan Penry | Mar 19, 2015 | Tylluan's Blog
The Equinox approaches and with it, the earth change gear once more. Each gear is appropriate for the time of year, although sometimes it will screech and shudder a bit, just as it does in a car. Many people are unaware of these changes. Let’s face it, there’s little...