gardens – T E Shepherd https://shepline.com author | illustrator | digital designer Sun, 26 Apr 2020 12:45:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://shepline.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/cropped-shepline-white-on-green-square_512-32x32.jpg gardens – T E Shepherd https://shepline.com 32 32 Went for a walk and adopted a dog for part of it… @evenleywoodgarden #woods #woodkand #gardens https://shepline.com/2020/04/26/went-for-a-walk-and-adopted-a-dog-for-part-of-it-evenleywoodgarden-woods-woodkand-gardens/ https://shepline.com/2020/04/26/went-for-a-walk-and-adopted-a-dog-for-part-of-it-evenleywoodgarden-woods-woodkand-gardens/#respond Sun, 26 Apr 2020 12:45:23 +0000 http://shepline.com/2020/04/26/went-for-a-walk-and-adopted-a-dog-for-part-of-it-evenleywoodgarden-woods-woodkand-gardens/

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]]> https://shepline.com/2018/05/22/birthday-outing-to-helmingham-hall-gardens-gardens-spring-flowers/feed/ 0 Out with the new; In with the old https://shepline.com/2010/04/18/out-with-the-new-in-with-the-old/ https://shepline.com/2010/04/18/out-with-the-new-in-with-the-old/#respond Sun, 18 Apr 2010 22:31:00 +0000 http://journal.shepline.com/out-with-the-new-in-with-the-old/ One of the upsides of the Eyjafjallajoekull volcano eruption and the resulting ash cloud has been a cloudless sky, devoid of any vapour trails. Saturday began with a trip into Headington to collect 1920’s original fireplace from Nicola. Having just about fitted it into Emma’s car we headed home and carried it indoors where straight away we saw what an improvement it would be. Then we popped into Bicester to buy our veggies from the market, a cornish pasty and a custard tart for lunch and went for a picnic and potter in the Lyde Garden, Bledlow (via my sis-in-law’s home-to-be in Chinnor).

Following a relaxing amble in the birdsong and sunshine we got stressed out and rudely woken back into the 21st century by a trp to B&Q – we were duped into believing they had affordable fire hearths, when in fact all they sold were cheap and nasty tacky things. Edit: expensive and tacky hearths. So we came home from via our own Homebase where we bought three pieces of Blue/Black Limestone (which we thought was actually slate) to make a hearth and a very large sheet of MDF make a backing for the fireplace. A sheet of MDF so large in fact that it wouldn’t fit in the car and I had to leave my driving license at the desk to be allowed to walk the wood home on the trolley round the ringroad!!

On Sunday, whilst Emma cleaned out the chickies and the bunny I worked on deconstructing the old fireplace and installing the new one, and it looks fab! So, so nice!

The old, an MDF Inca Mausoleum circa 2005…

The new, a 1920s wooden fireplace that cost £20 and a half a dozen eggs…

]]> https://shepline.com/2010/04/18/out-with-the-new-in-with-the-old/feed/ 0 Seven years of growth https://shepline.com/2008/05/18/seven-years-of-growth/ https://shepline.com/2008/05/18/seven-years-of-growth/#respond Sun, 18 May 2008 21:52:00 +0000 http://journal.shepline.com/seven-years-of-growth/ I’ve forgotten what I was actually looking for on my computer now, but I ended up finding photographs from 2001 on my computer. There aren’t many as its from my pre-digital age and so all my photographs are in packets under my bed. But there are some of my moving in to my house on 25 May 2001, and in particular the garden. The change is just astounding; particularly the front garden where it just looks empty – you really don’t notice how things grow as its happening as when you look back on it and realise that bush really did only used to extend aobut a foot up the wall.

I love my house. Whilst I want to move on, and in with Em, and make a new home, I’m always going to miss my first house I think.

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