Gardening The Best Ways to Protect Your Garden from Pests Posted on October 10, 2017May 2, 2025 By Becky It can become very frustrating when all of your hard work and efforts to create a beautiful garden, are trampled on by the pests that like to wriggle their way into your garden and make their mark on your prized tomatoes (something that happened to us this year, the beasties… Read more
Gardening Top Tips to achieve a child-friendly garden Posted on October 2, 2017May 9, 2026 By Becky Having a child-friendly garden is the perfect way to enjoy the space you have, whilst encouraging your little ones to be active and have fun in the beautiful fresh air. It’s not always necessary to transform your lovely garden into an outdoor play area, but there are ways in which… Read more
Gardening A Little Garden Update Posted on April 28, 2017January 28, 2022 By Becky Since moving house nearly 6 months ago, one of the things I’ve talked about a lot has, understandably, been the changes we’ve made and want to make to the inside of our house. So far we’ve been lucky enough to complete our kitchen renovation, as well as decorating everywhere bar… Read more
Gardening Creating a ‘Man Cave’ in your garden Posted on September 23, 2016June 19, 2026 By Becky One of the things I have enjoyed very much in our current home, is having a home office, or creative space, where I’ve loved being able to work from home in an attractive environment, as well as having somewhere to store all my craft, DIY, party planning and photography bits. … Read more
Gardening Getting our DIY on with SGS Engineering Posted on August 29, 2016August 22, 2025 By Becky With our house move starting to actually progress a little faster now (praise the lord!), our thoughts are turning to the work that will need/we will want doing once we move into our new home. We’re fortunate that as far as houses go, our new one is actually in… Read more
Gardening Summer Evenings with our La Hacienda Murcia Chimenea Posted on June 25, 2016March 26, 2020 By Becky You know you’re a proper grown up right when you have ‘nice’ garden furniture? Well, since buying our first ‘posh’ set of outdoor garden seating at the end of last summer (making the most of the sales!), we’ve been looking forward to using it this year. Along with our (kinda)… Read more
Gardening Stylish Outdoor Living with Harley and Lola Posted on April 17, 2016August 13, 2021 By Becky Now that the weather seems to be getting nicer (I know I’m tempting fate here!), my thoughts home-wise have once again turned to spending more time outdoors. Whether that’s playing with the children, eating, drinking, reading, whatever- I’m all about creating the perfect space for doing all of these things. … Read more
Gardening Growing an edible garden with little ones Posted on January 21, 2016January 15, 2026 By Becky Ever since Freddie and Sasha could walk, we’ve grown our own fruit and veg. Starting small with tomatoes, we’ve progressed each year (with the help my green fingered Mum!) to growing raspberries, strawberries, runner beans, rhubarb, red currants, black currants and potatoes in a pot. I’m hoping that this summer… Read more
Gardening Our summer garden (a bit of colour in this gloomy weather!) Posted on September 15, 2015August 13, 2021 By Becky Well, I have to say that summer seems a looooong time ago now! It sure is one wet and dismal Tuesday, so to perk it up a bit I thought I’d share some snaps of our garden in bloom this summer. Since my Mum got her hands on it last… Read more