Thanks for all your presents

Had a great time with mum on my birthday . Amongst all her many contacts and reads she found a tiny but ver significant international expert cut out an article out of the press which calls for more professional biodiversity work - what a wonder .If you want to keep up on environment debates-and not join the panic merchants on water or any other big threat- click here.

Muscatels out of the garden

Mum's not one to deny the short time we have left with her here on earth , but she's also not one to stop tending the garden and sharing in everything . It was almost 75% clean when we dropped in last week and she helped drive in the posts to train the vine . Would you believe on the table were the last muscatel grapes from a bag that had been on the bush since about january this year - beautiful .