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Garden Monkey\'s Guide on taking care of Poinsettias.
One from the archives:With Christmas bearing down upon us, lots of people will be buying Poinsettias, so here's a little tip on the best way to treat them.Find them a nice shady spot and place the plant there without delay.I find that a dustbin is id...
We Will Remember Them
So much about today is moving.This story mentions "the wastage of Loos", just a line in a story, but one of my family members was amongst that wastage. We have just a blurry photo of him. No known grave. No children. No legacy.He was killed, along wi...
Garden Monkey\'s Guide to the Idiot Box and Radio Ga Ga
A couple of things made me smile recently.Firstly, on Friday's Corrie uptight shopkeeper Norris wanted a tool to get the weeds from between some paving. Of course you and I know that such things are called patio weeders or weed knives. The street's r...
Garden Monkey\'s Guide to the Idiot Box
King of Concrete, Diarmuid Gavin is appearing on Market Kitchen tomorrow (7pm on Sky 249 & Virgin 260).Apparently he is talking about worms.Presumably as it is a cookery programme we can expect Lumbricus terrestris Pad Thai....
Garden Monkey's Guide to Foraging
I've been reading and hearing so much about this foraging malarkey that I thought I'd give it a go and headed off, bright and early, to my local park in search of wild food. I did think about going out to the country, but I thought it better to a) st...
Garden Monkey's Guide to Poetry
As any of you who've visited Martyn Cox's blog will know, today is National Poetry Day.There is a theme of Heroes and Heroines.This poem, which I did post way back on the old AOL blog, is by a very flawed hero of mine Spike Milligan and is one of my ...


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Posted: January 21st, 2009 | More Reviews From IanBrown | Report This Comment