Quiltingorchardist

   I have just finished this book. I  really enjoyed it . Fiona writes a great tale. Hard to put down.  fionamcintosh.com/books/     I have ...

  5 days into a new year already and not a great deal to show for it.  I did complete this new jigsaw in about a week after Christmas. A rec...

 Yesterday was our 57th Wedding Anniversary. It is a busy time of year and it's all to easy to just overlook the date, so we went out to...

Thing s are looking a bit different because on Monday morning this week ( 18th ) I had cataract surgery on both eyes. The right one first an...

Much needed rain and drizzle here today.  So fruit mince pies it is. Everyone  in this family seems to like them better than Christmas cake ...

  The final and largest flowering cherry has been out for weeks but is now getting its leaves and carpeting the ground with pink. As the win...

   I decided to try trianglar buttons as the centres of these mauve flowers. That's  anatomically incorrrect but they are imaginary flow...

 Quite a few times I have meant to put something up here and haven't. Maybe I getting old and lazy or worse slow!  We have had family bi...

Our bright early cherries are now finished and in leaf. The next to flower called Awanui are  coming out nicely. They are in properties all ...

I know for many of you your sewing room is your happy place. For me its my garden ( you would never have guessed ).   I still like to sew bu...

This is the new edging R has put in where we dug out the agapanthus.  It needs more soil fill on both sides.  Along the piece of garden ther...

Since we left the orchard ( 6 years ago now ) I haven't had a bird bath in the garden only water dishes. Now I have. Purchased at a clo...