Tag: tree
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Wallpapering, knitting, birds of prey and plums
I spent much of my weekend redecorating Elizabeth’s bedroom. Never, ever put children’s wallpaper up in a child’s bedroom because the child will grow up very quickly and want something else. Five years ago we covered Elizabeth’s bedroom in flamingo wallpaper. It looked cool at the time but she’s 14 now and her interests have…
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The avocado tree
A few years ago I planted an avocado seed from a supermarket avocado I ate. Within a year I had a nice potted plant for the kitchen. Here it is back in 2020. Today the tree is close to 3m high. It lives in my office beside my desk. I’m not sure what to do…
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Plums into jam
We have a Victoria plum tree and this year it has been particularly productive so I’ve been making plum jam.
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Time to put up the Christmas tree
We always put up our Christmas tree on the first weekend in December and we’ve just done it today. We have a Timbatree which we use every year. I bought it because I wanted to reduce my impact on the environment and a Timbatree is a good way to do it while supporting a British business at…
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Our Christmas Tree
It’s Christmas tree time again. Last year we bought a living branch which was very full and beautiful and smelt delicious, but it inevitably turned into a very big dead branch. I’m not so keen on that again and I really hate the plastic trees. When I first moved to New Zealand, Ben and I…
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