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In the garden: Pink Echinacea

In the bee garden…

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In the garden: red (velvet) snapdragons

These snapdragon were rather desperate to grow in the rose garden, even though I planted them on the other side of the back yard (where they declined to grow). I didn’t have the heart to rip them out and now they look like velvet – what a colour!!

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Around The Web: After The Virus, etc.

A Book Vacation recently read After The Virus and ranked it 4 stars! Shana seems to be looking forward to a sequel, but she’ll have a bit of wait ahead of her as a prequel/sequel is not currently in the works (though there are always ideas… ha!) If you are a writer and not reading […]

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In the garden: green beans

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Around The Web: After The Virus, etc.

Oops, this was supposed to go live yesterday!! ——– Instead of doing individual posts, I’ve decided to do a link round up every Wednesday (if I have collected enough links to warrant a round up!!) So, since I last posted about my novel, After The Virus, (buy and sample links found on the right hand […]

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In the garden: red, red rose

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From garden to kitchen: Zucchini

Last week I found this monster zucchini hiding behind a garbage can full of crazy potato plants (more on those later). Under this stealthy cover the zucchini was able to grow beyond tasty eating size and into what-the-hell-am-I-going-to-do-with-this proportions. So this: Monster “Ambassador” Zucchini Became this: Monster Zucchini = 8+ cups when grated!! Became these: […]

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In the kitchen: possessed (suicidal) bananas

Michael, while packing for his lunch, found these in the cupboard this morning: After staring at them for a moment – cut him some slack, how often do you come across suicidal bananas – he laughed his ass off and then took the one which declared itself “like brains but better” for a morning snack. […]

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After the Virus — Another New Review!

This review is copied and pasted from Patrick D’Orazio’s Blog and can also be found on Amazon & Goodreads. WARNING – spoilers ahead   4 out of 5 stars Quite a few post apocalyptic novels have attempted to inject love and romance into their pages. Some do it by cramming it into a high action, gore splattered […]

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In the garden: pepper

This is the largest pepper I have ever grown (in the 3 whole years I have been gardening – ha!). I attempted to grow peppers for my first 2 years by seed and was never successful, so this year I purchased 2 plants (a chocolate and an orange pepper), planted the seedlings in containers by […]