I’ve been writing this blog for a long time now. It’s 2025 and what I started out to blog has changed and metamorphosed into something I find hard to categorise.

As I’ve said before, it’s mainly about gardening. Of my attempts to keep on top of my own garden – it’s menaces and the things I’d like it to be (a family space which adapts to the needs and health of us all) – but it also features my visits to some of the many, many gardens open to visitors in the UK and beyond.

The period of restrictions the whole world suffered under a worldwide pandemic meant that my wee blog got to quite a lot of readers. Since then it has been fluctuating and sometimes I post it out to places I think will attract new readers, but it’s still growing slowly and going beyond the UK.

Sometimes I visit a beach which I can photograph at length. I love the ever changing nature of seaside landscapes. Like nature reserves and country parks I like to show or discuss the essence of these places and my ability to access them while I am still ambulant and not reliant on a wheelchair. (I don’t know what my MS will do to me…)

Recently I’ve been answering the daily prompts set by WordPress/Jetpack, when one catches my attention and I can post something relevant to me. Often the strange aspects of Life in this decade will prompt me to discuss a bit extra. Life was cruel when it sent me the variables of an MS diagnosis and it’s taken a long time to accept that into my life. But life goes on, and having one diagnosis doesn’t mean that another can’t come along and knock you for six.

I’ve gone through other scares and written about them. They’re in my blog, some hidden way back, but I’ve also talked about making a garden for myself which fulfils my interests in landscape and gardening design. I’ve never managed to create a digital drawing which sets out what the different areas of my front and back gardens will look like.

I need to teach myself a new skill on the digital devices I own to enable those drawings to happen. But I don’t find that an easy thing to do. I’d much rather take photos! So most of the photos are mine, occasionally supplemented by family shots or digital images I’ve found.

People need visuals to read a garden blog after all!