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Garden July 2020

Post author:tejvan
Post published:July 17, 2020
Post category:flowers

Garden in July View from above Kale doing well this year. Summer calabrese and spring broccoli Courgettes Swiss chard and Tomato Coriander all went to seed. Toms! Front garden Penstemons…

Garden June 2020

Post author:tejvan
Post published:June 18, 2020
Post category:book

Peas

Leeks (more…)

Garden Photos June 2020

Post author:tejvan
Post published:June 6, 2020
Post category:flowers

Broad beans make a salad. Last year the black aphids killed them off. This year I’m fighting back with hosepipe.

Lots of salad (more…)

Garden May Photos

Post author:tejvan
Post published:May 20, 2020
Post category:flowers

View from back of garden Alium Kale Beds Earlier May Lettuce Small tomatoes Bike ride in Toot Baldon.

Garden March/April 2020

Post author:tejvan
Post published:April 28, 2020
Post category:flowers

These are some photos from the past few weeks. Growth has been quite rapid in the past week due to warm weather.

Veg are coming along well.

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Sardinia and Crete photos 2020

Post author:tejvan
Post published:January 24, 2020
Post category:photos

The path to the summit in Crete mountains.

Crete

Sunset in Sardinia.

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Recent Photos October 2019

Post author:tejvan
Post published:October 30, 2019
Post category:photos

View from bedroom window. Rainbow over Oxford.

Rainbow over Annam Brahma, Jamaica, Queens, New York. (more…)

Garden October 2019

Post author:tejvan
Post published:October 8, 2019
Post category:book

There is not too much left in the veg garden, apart from the last of the runner beans, courgettes, and tomatoes, but from lawn and borders, there are still quite a few leaves to make a salad.

Some greens still going.

Sorrel – a big leafed kind of herb. I thought I pulled it up last year, but it regrew in August, to my surprise. A neighbour gave it. I was pleased it grew back.
Dandelion leaves
Tomatoes
Spinach – a few slug holes
Lettuce – only one or two plants left, but get a few leaves
Flowers of Borage
Swiss Chard
Rocket

Other photos

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Inspired by 3100 Mile Race 2019

Post author:tejvan
Post published:August 11, 2019
Post category:book

Every year, I follow the Sri Chinmoy 3100 Mile Self-Transcendence Race from a distance. This year seemed a particularly good edition. I know Nirbhasa (who finished in 2nd place) and…

Garden August 2019

Post author:tejvan
Post published:July 17, 2019
Post category:flowers

Courgettes

This courgette plant is flying – 1 new courgette daily. It takes up half the bed and more.

Border

Coreopsis.

Sunflower

The chair collapsed under my colossal weight and I unceremoniously fell within the chair. It was comedy gold, but can a funny act be funny, if no-one is there to see the joke? I wasn’t laughing! (It is like the Zen koan, if you tell a joke in the forest but no one is there to hear it, was it really a joke?) (more…)