Mark Charan Newton

For those of you who have been following such updates, the garden keeps on giving. For those of you new to the blog, I apologise, but you’ll see a lot of this. This was from a quick whip around the blackcurrant bush – not bad for its first ever offering (this is a deceptively deep [...]

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Further to the last post on this subject (for any newcomers, my reason for boring you is “If Neil Gaiman can have his bees…”) I present the first signs of life from the garden. There would have been more, had I more time, and had my parents not visited and picked from the fruit bushes [...]

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If Neil Gaiman can have his bee updates, then I can have my vegetable updates. On a serious note, I genuinely think that working in the garden this year has saved me from going mad behind a computer screen. I’d recommend to any new writers out there who find themselves with a full-time job as [...]

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