Author: Joanna Hazelton
Keep Your Bike in the Bedroom and Your Husband in the Shed
8 October 2012 - Joanna Hazelton
We’re all well aware of the ‘pleb’ scandal that is surrounding Andrew Mitchell and what he did or did not call the policemen as he cycled past. I’m certainly not going to throw my opinion on what happened into the mix. But seeing the Chief Whip on his bike, together with David Cameron, Boris Johnson, Nick Clegg and George Osborne all championing the virtues of cycling to work, it did bring to mind an interesting question.
Time To Store Summer Away in a Box
4 October 2012 - Joanna Hazelton
Now I know size isn’t everything. And bigger isn’t necessarily always better. It’s what use you make of it and where you put it that’s important. But this is exactly my dilemma at the moment. I’ve come to terms with the fact that my time for lounging in the garden is finally over and it’s now time to store summer away in a box until next year. But where?
A Modern Woman’s Approach to Fruit Picking
27 September 2012 - Joanna Hazelton
OK, I’m going to have to admit it. I’ve never been one for getting my hands dirty in the garden. My sort of gardening is buying a few planters and sitting from the comfort of the lounger ‘advising’ my husband about what needs to be done.
However, I’m not completely inept in the garden. I can manage picking fruit from our fruit trees. And in the last few weeks I’ve had my work cut out with all the blackberries, pears, damsons and apples – all quite exhausting but it beats going to the gym!
Top Ten Garden Shed TV and Film Trivia You Didn’t Know – and Probably Didn’t Want To
21 September 2012 - Joanna Hazelton
I love a good challenge and my husband – my partner in life as well as Jack’s Garden Store – has set me a cracker! He’s bet me that I can’t come up with 10 obscure facts about the good old garden shed. (Sad state of affairs that this is what our pillow talk has come to after 22 years together!).