Life at Corner Cottage, Braidwood
Well, with the holidays upon us and peace and goodwill reigning all around, it seemed a great opportunity to post up a short meditation on something meaningful. I did think about bashing out one of those deliberations on the true meaning of Christmas, but we were too busy eating and getting drunk to really focus …
Look, I know you come here for inspiration and the wisdom you need to negotiate life’s little ups and downs, but the fact is, I’ve been busy, OK? When I started this blog, I sincerely vowed that it wouldn’t be one of those fly-by-night, limp-as-lettuce, no-consequence attempts at online content provision. And by and large, …
It’s been a good few months since we established our veggie patch here at Corner Cottage, and I’d hate for anyone to interpret this silence as indicating failure. Quite the contrary – the two tubs of carefully-prepared earth have spent spring and early summer erupting with greenstuff. A froth of vegetation has risen in its …
It seems about time to relieve the tension, release you all from those tenterhooks, and deliver an update on the whole butterfly situation. When last the lepidoptera featured here, it was with some frustration that I had to report complete failure in fashioning a lure to bring the district’s butterflies flocking to the Corner Cottage …
A quick thought today that doesn’t qualify as something as deep as a meditation. Here we go. I managed to write a whole post about tea a few weeks ago without mentioning the very important topic of the herbal variety. Now, I know herbal tea has all the associations of hippiedom, plant-based diets, clean living …
You’ll be familiar with a special kind of obsession mentioned here before, that of making stuff: the intoxicating possibilities inherent in new tools and the unintended consequences of embarking willy-nilly on projects without adequate forward planning. For this amateur craftsperson, it’s is a long-term thing: from the early days at Hillside Nursery School, Bulawayo, where …
No need for improvisation on the latest Corner Cottage project. Creative juices not required to flow. It’s a pretty bog-standard sand-and-paint, and yet it’s all in service of an upgrade in quality of life as summer leans in on us more and more, bright and hot.Just to rewind a little, let’s think about the kinds …
Last time I got my head above water enough to post something up here, I mentioned stalking butterflies as a current, unsatisfying obsession. At the time, this was included to build a feeble case about the inexorable cycles of nature, blah blah. But we all know this was just a thin and ineffective balm for …
I never thought I’d be one of those people who obsessed about their roses. Turns out I am. Which means I was wrong about ‘those people’ as they are clearly pretty cool. It’s really because I've never had a garden of my own. And the fact that Corner Cottage’s previous occupants studded the grounds with …
If you’re coming here for words of wisdom – and who could blame you if you are – I have a doozy for you today. And that is that nature moves fast. Now I’ll be the first to concede that this message has been subtly embedded in a lot of the stuff that passes for …
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