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Pussy galore

By James Alexander-Sinclair on 17/09/2007 10:32:02

Like Richard I too own a cat of which I am quite fond - she is what my daughter calls "middle sized" in other words tending towards the tubby. She is very good at sleeping and dismembering mice on my office floor.In spite of all this feline bonhomie


Spring flowers - my least favourites

By James Alexander-Sinclair on 25/03/2008 13:26:00

sink is the flowering currant with its limply hanging pink flowers. Not only is it extremely boring but the slightest contact with the leaves releases an unmistakable smell of cat pee. (I could just about accept Ribes sanguineum King Edward VII if I


Moles and molehills

By James Alexander-Sinclair on 25/08/2009 16:31:35

number of interesting remedies (apart from traps) put forward for driving moles away. These include putting one of those annoying greetings cards that play tinny music in the run, burying mothballs and either blowing smoke or putting cat litter


Garden wildlife

By James Alexander-Sinclair on 11/10/2010 13:22:55

be good to state that I am not anti-wildlife, just pro gardens. I welcome all creatures great and small. Except rabbits. And maybe the next door neighbour's cat.


It was a dark and stormy day...

By James Alexander-Sinclair on 11/12/2007 08:51:02

Scott's tree planting habits).- The Merry Hall Trilogy. I adore these books: beautifully written, light and fluffy sagas about a new garden taken on in the 1950s by novelist Beverley Nichols. He writes very amusingly about people, places, plants and cats


Plant hunters

By James Alexander-Sinclair on 25/11/2008 14:44:31

) and cat wrangling (definitely) have their enthusiasts, but there's something about plants that makes people bubble and froth with excitement. This can be lost on a great deal of the population who can't understand what all the fuss is about. To those of us


Frightful forsythia

By James Alexander-Sinclair on 31/03/2009 16:23:16

tends to ruin anything it is planted with, particularly the pink Ribes sanguineum. This is another large shrub which may not be perfect (apart from anything its leaves smell of cat pee) but the poor thing is completely ruined when teamed with a forsythia


2011 in the garden

By James Alexander-Sinclair on 01/01/2011 06:25:58

the hours of darkness or when you are at work: never at the weekends.May your bindweed throttle itself.May your neighbour's cat be less generous with its toilette.May all your trees grow straight and true.May all your post-digging back aches disappear after


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