It’s all kicking off in my garden
Spring has most definitely sprung in my garden. I had today off work and was out there planting some veg seeds (already off plan, somehow) and re-potting a bay tree. In the process of all this I spotted many signs of new, edible life. Including:
The first of hopefully many strawberry flowers (above)
Some tiny baby figs
Some [...]
Plan plot scheme!
“PLAN PLOT SCHEME!” is what I wrote on my To Do list last weekend.
…Not realising until I read it back that it’s just the sort of thing Guy Fawkes (not that one) may have typed into his PDA-equivalent one October weekend in 1605.
What I meant was the relatively innocent task of planning a planting scheme [...]
Mission creeping into 2009
Predictions abound for digital media in 2009 (even in the government space) and I’m excited to see what the year will bring.
It’s also a good time to reflect on personal highlights of the year just ended and hopes for the one ahead. So for my first new year as a blogger I hope you’ll permit me the [...]
Spoils from my tinyholding
Not a bad crop from my garden plot today:
We got your eggs, we got your beets, yer luvverly carrots, a pair o’courgettes (not as big as Laurie’s – oo-er missus), some disappointingly small onions, a few cherry tomatoes, we got your crispy fresh runners, and 3 green chillies (which are going straight to wok later [...]
Hello, I'm Neil Williams. I'm a government web geek, a dad, a husband, a grower of veg, a keeper of hens and a lapsed comedy writer, roughly in that order. 
