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My grandson says, like many nearly three year olds that he 'wuvs' things. Elephants - he wuvs them. Edie the dog? Wuvs her. Me, I wuv my windows. I'm going to miss my windows out onto the garden. It's

I left a boyfriend, who curled up on my front doormat to be kicked on the way out, but I left by the backdoor. I had been ready to leave for a long time, but he did not know it that I no longer loved him

It’s been a tough growing season, I’ll not deny it. Between relentless raids by marauding chickens, a stretch of unusually hot, dry weather and a non-stop battle with mildew, I’m almost at the point of

The older you get, the more you think about death. Or maybe, faced with the passings of loved ones, you spend a little time dwelling on mortality. Some monks meditate on death to prepare themselves for

...or at least, it shouldn't be.

Welcome to Week 19 of the Hive Garden Question! Thanks everyone for entering last week with the theme 'free stylin'. We love all your interpretations of the prompts and encourage you to be as creative

a 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫 i know how you can help, she offers — bring him kale from your lovely garden i looked at the woodlice gathered there tirelessly ravaging the sad little shoots, stripping

Brompton Cemetery, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London is the only London cemetery to be owned by the Crown managed by The Royal Parks. It is one of the "Magnificent Seven

This year, my best mate has spent five months apart from her husband. Work committments and the palliative care and death of relatives in other countries - just the sheer logistics of it has necessated

Bunnings is an Australian institution, in case you were wondering. It's a super store where you can buy anything from lemon trees to tie down ropes, mushroom growing kits to sheets of plywood, lighting,

The ancients knew the importance of self-knowledge. Some 2,500 years ago, the phrase “Know thyself” was inscribed on the Temple of Apollo in Delphi, ancient Greece. Sadly, humans have not spent millennia

Last night, I renovated our new bathroom in my mind ten times in my semi-dreams. You heard right. Our new house. Okay, well we have still yet to sign the contract of sale and do all of the paperwork, and

Today I've been tidying out the bus. It's essentially been a storage unit for two years, lacking the charm and beauty it used to have as a 'guest bus'. As we just yesterday signed with an agent, we wanted

I was thrilled when I heard @ericvancewalton was writing a new book. I came to this platform very young, and I think I can say without fear of sounding corny or over-the-top, I've always looked up to Eric

Welcome to Week 18 of the Hive Garden Question! Last week was about 'before' and 'after' and Hive Gardeners had some creative approaches to the question. @sanjeevm lamented the promised work on the empty

“The heart is just a muscle,” someone said to me the other day. I tried very hard not to explode into a rant about how this central organ is a little more than that. The heart is connected to your lungs,

I was chatting to a friend here on Hive who has connected far more to his partner's family than his own - they have given him a sense of belonging and being loved far beyond the complicated relationship

The other day, I saw a social media post by the ministry of internal affairs in Romania targeted at teenagers participating to music festivals for the first time. Since the festival season is in full swing,

Waking to the news that Ozzy Osborne had, not unexpectedly, died, Jamie went straight to the vinyl - sadly, not in the best condition, being well used and scratched. When you grow up with certain music,

As we prepare to sell the house, I've been thinking a lot about my father - he helped lay the pine floorboards, the gazebo, remove and instal windows. I remember him on the front deck, the last time he