Ravendale House

I heard on the lunchtime news a few days ago that the average age of the first time home buyer in the UK is now 37 years. By teatime, on the same channel, this figure had mysteriously risen to ‘approaching 43 years’.  A 6 year increase in as many hours. Blimey I didn’t think things were deteriorating that quickly!!

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I seem to have been doing a lot of remembering just recently, a situation that probably comes with age, and the recent Remembrance Day celebrations, (if ‘celebration’ is the right word) have sent me back down memory lane.

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I wrote some time ago about the pub at the end of the garden, and how since February 2009 it had been in sad decline. I left the story at the beginning of 2011 with things looking up under the ‘new management’.

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I wrote some time ago about the old tree at the bottom of the garden and later how we were pleased when it was finally cut down. I think I would have been less eager to see it go if it had looked like this.

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Here’s a question. What can you buy for 48p these days? (That’s just short of 10 bob for those of you happier pre-decimal)

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Having a big garden means that as well as producing fruit, veg and flowers, we also produce a lot of rubbish. By this I mean weeds, prunings, hedge trimmings and the like, most of which we compost, but some we have to burn. On average we have a bonfire twice a year.

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There isn’t much gardening getting done here at the moment, it’s far too hot, so here is a little conundrum for you to ponder.

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If you ever have a few hours to spare and several hundred pounds to fritter away, why not take a trip to your local garden centre. If it’s anything like ours in Brigg, then you will be able to lose yourself in a wonderland of ‘stuff’.

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Much has been written in recent times about the sad demise of that much loved British institution, the public house. A combination of economic woes, the smoking ban and drink drive legislation, have all contributed to it’s decline. Recent figures show that each week 25 pubs are closing down for good.

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A few weeks ago I took the fleece barrier from around the strawberries. It had been a 100% success, and we’ve had the best strawberry crop ever.

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