My musings about volunteering at Charleston Farmhouse. Please note, everything here is my personal account of the enjoyment and experiences of working at this fascinating place.
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Gardening. It is in my DNA. The one thing that holds our dysfunctional family together is a love of gardening. I was a late starter. Now no surface is safe, and I think about gardens - a lot.
A twice-monthly exploration of life as an American in the UK, sharing stories of cultural surprises, recipe adaptations, and the charming chaos of bridging two worlds.
Tactical advice for streamlining your home with systems thinking and engineering concepts. Keep your home organized, feel peaceful, and get back your time.
For all the hours I spend planning what to plant and how to look after it, my garden has it’s own ideas about how it wants to grow. I can go along with Mother Nature, or steer my own course, but that's often where things go awry...
Life happens. We get interrupted. When my husband died, grief opened my heart. Writing, like grieving, is an act of love. I got interrupted, but I didn't give up. Join me! A Substack Featured Publication.
A newsletter for those who love travel, books, history, and beautiful things. I write about the inspiring history of women travel writers, and share my own travels - with a passion for sharing the stories of the people and places I meet along the way.
A multi-award winning home renovation and garden makeover expert. Home & Hort is a celebration of interior design, gardening, life, culture, crafts & seasons. Expert tips & dollops of joy from me to you.
Feminist life advice for very hard times. Analysis and practical posts about how men damage women via abuse, and how we can survive, and even thrive, in the aftermath of trauma and grief. From the perspective of a survivor.
Graham's Garden is about garden plants, native plants, new plants, plant trials, invasive plants, cut flowers, wildflowers, books about plants, the smartness and the absurdity of plant names, fishing, music, the second half of life and more.
Food and everything connected, by James Beard shortlisted and multi award-winning author and photographer Mark Diacono, of Otter Farm, once of River Cottage.
So many book recs, a behind-the-scenes peek at my novel in progress, and anything else floating around in my brain. By Becca Freeman, Co-Host of Bad on Paper Podcast and author of THE CHRISTMAS ORPHANS CLUB.
My biography of Daniel and Alexander Macmillan, Literature for the People, is out now. I mostly write about people, authors and history, late 19th and early 20th century. Now working on a particular group of 20th century women linked to the Labour Party
Passionate, RHS qualified gardener and designer, garden writer and Amateur Gardening columnist, sharing his passion and knowledge of gardening and plants, and generally with a trowel-full of humour.
These newsletters are a mixture of creative musings, garden notes, photography and extracts from my journals, time spent in the garden styling blooms and passed on to you for inspiration. All lovingly typed up from my office (local coffee shop).
Something odd will cross my mind, or a memory will catch me off guard, or my monkey mind will swing from the ceiling fan, or a tiny ant will crawl up the bookcase next to my chair. Then I get curious and curiosity is the first step in an unknown direction
