by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 19, 2019 | My Diary
The garden in July I took a few pictures of the garden this week. It’s been looking really good this year. I usually buy a basil plant and put it in a large pot, it lasts all summer. I’ve tried keeping one in the house over winter, but they really...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 13, 2017 | My Diary
Changing silk flowers to suit the season I’ve blogged before about silk flowers, showing what I chose for both a spring and summer arrangement. I like to keep a large arrangement in my kitchen to brighten up the place. I have a base arrangement of plain green leaves...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 2, 2017 | My Diary
Birthday celebrations. I’m feeling thoroughly birthdayed! I’m feeling thoroughly birthdayed today. It was my birthday this week, oh how those years whizz by! Mike bought me a magnificent double stemmed orchid, and a lovely soppy card. I seem to have success...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 26, 2017 | My Diary
A seasonal change over of my silk flower display I updated my silk flower arrangement today, to be used for the next three months. This is what it looked like before. A base foliage display, fixed in resin in the vase, white Ranunculus and three different shades of...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 18, 2017 | My Diary
Now it’s merely very hot rather than scorching, here are some piccies of the garden By heck it was hot today. Mike wanted to go for a walk, as he did yesterday. There was NO WAY I was walking in a squillion degrees! It was too hot to do very much until this...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 31, 2017 | My Diary
What a gorgeous time of year! Here’s a few pics of the garden I love this gorgeous time of year! Everything is hurling itself out of the ground and I’ve taken a few snaps of what’s happening in my garden. The Iris Ensata are loving our damp, clay soil and are...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 9, 2017 | My Diary
A bit of a walk and a day out in Alfriston Day out today. We pootled off down to Alfriston. I wanted to have a leisurely look around after visiting the village briefly on a WI garden group visit to Alfriston Clergy House recently. Cheekily, we parked in the massive...
by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 16, 2017 | My Diary, Saving Money
Easter Fun, Easter Eggs and half price posh chocolate How’s your Easter going? We decided to get a leg of lamb on Friday and drove to Aldi at Bexhill to pick one up. But we’d left it too late and they’d sold out, no matter. The shop was completely rammed! We got a...
by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 12, 2017 | My Diary
Lots of vegetables, houses, birthdays and plants I have got SO much to tell you! Can’t believe it’s been a week again! Tuesday On Tuesday – the U3A cookery group came to my house and as last month, I got them to explore more recipes using lots of vegetables. We did...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 20, 2017 | My Diary
Getting lost 3 miles from home, lots of digging and a few flowers Getting lost 3 miles from home I forgot to say last time, that I had a frustrating thing happen on Monday. I was supposed to go to the U3A committee meeting. It wasn’t at the usual venue, as that person...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 14, 2017 | My Diary
Bumps, crashes, walks and lunches. Are people out to get me? Bumps I wrote in this post about how a friend had accidentally bumped into me. On Friday, I took the car up to the repairers and they did a lovely job. On Saturday, I picked it up again and we now have a...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 7, 2017 | My Diary
Fresh flowers, and silk ones – a comparison Fresh flowers, and silk ones I like to have fresh flowers in the house. Not many, just the odd bunch. Last year, I bought a lovely display from Bloom, which makes high quality silk flowers. They are so realistic, that,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 16, 2017 | My Diary
Blooming fat demo’s Blooming fat demo’s? Well not quite! I’ve got three separate things to report and I was just playing with the title Long lasting poinsettia In the middle of December, Mike and I were walking in Eastbourne. We had a little browse round the...
by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 16, 2016 | Christmas
Flowers, more flowers, and exciting plans On Wednesday, we had our annual WI Christmas party. It was lovely! We all brought a plate of food to share. I was asked to hold a list of what people were bringing, as several years ago, we had far too many offerings with...
