Odds and Sods - August 2017

Looking back at these photos for this post, August was clearly a very random month!   I had lots of outings which will get their own individual posts, but other than that, it just seems to be about Finn, jollies and dodgy headgear!

I've discovered a new plant nursery - Urban Jungle west of Norwich - and have been there twice now.  This place is purely about plants - there's no souvenirs, no greetings cards, candles, or fripperies - it's just about the greenery here!  And the plants are very reasonably priced - which we assume is down to the fact there are no overheads.  They have a lovely cafe there too - Cafe Jungle - which is totally gluten free.  I love it there and am expecting to spend quite a lot of time there going forward.  (In fact, they are looking for people to work in the nursery and I'm so tempted to apply!)

I've been given a new magazine - Modern Gardens - which is fab and is full of all sorts of labour and cost saving tricks for the garden, including quite a lot of crafty ideas.  I'm not at liberty to openly declare what I'm going to be making because I think there'll be some Christmas gifts in the offing, but I have bought paints, stamps and have "borrowed" some modelling clay in the meantime.  Watch this space!

For my birthday I received a lot of gardening kit - probably to be expected - including some solar lights - Andy has said we can have no more as there will soon be 'planes landing in the garden - spoilsport!  I love this colour changing globe - it's fab!

We've actually been spending a lot of time in the garden lately and Andy and Finn have been having lots of love-ins on the hammock!  Sadly no photographic evidence of them both on there, but it'll happen!

I have been after something to keep my hair out of my eyes while gardening and have found a horticulturally- inspired buff/ bandanna/ call it what you will.   I know it looks ridiculous but it does the trick and I love the watering can/ wheelbarrow fabric.

And, as usual, it's all about Finn ...