Simon's home and garden

A mixture of posts about our home and Garden. We do love our Gardens and have always treated then as another room or set of rooms in our home. I also like making things and there are a few special projects here.

Posts about Simon's home and garden

• Gluten free veggie sausage roll recipe

  on Wed, Dec 24, 2025 ~ Post | Home | Misc
  My version of a classic vegetarian sausage roll recipe.

• Home network set up changes

  on Sun, Aug 4, 2024 ~ Shorticles | Home
  Simon Cox details his home network upgrade, replacing powerline adapters with Devolo Magic 2 for better coverage and performance throughout the house.

• Then I built a new bin store!

  on Mon, Jun 3, 2024 ~ Post | Home
  Simon Cox discusses designing and building a bin store, highlighting the challenges and solutions in creating a functional and aesthetically pleasing structure.

• How I Built a Log Store (Plans, Materials List & Costs)

  on Tue, May 28, 2024 ~ Post | Home | Featured
  Simon Cox built a new log store for my firewood to replace the pallet crates the logs come in and this includes a plan and materials list.

• Plots and scheming - digging out a raised bed for fresh food and herbs

  on Thu, Nov 14, 2013 ~ Post | Home
  We’ve always wanted to grow our own vegetables—not to an extreme, but as a nod to the post-war "make do and mend" lifestyle.

• Spring has sprung

  on Sun, Apr 20, 2003 ~ Shorticles | Home
  Despite the lack of entries here we have been doing a lot to the garden over the winter.

• New Bamboo!

  on Sat, Jun 22, 2002 ~ Shorticles | Home
  ur visit to Coolings Garden Centre found us a stunning coloured-cane bamboo. The garden's blooming beautifully with saxifrage still flowering since April.

• Clematis go in

  on Tue, Jun 4, 2002 ~ Shorticles | Home
  I made a small trellis, from bamboo that I had pruned out of the garden last month, which I have dug in with the first clematis up against the fence.

• Black fence

  on Sun, Jun 2, 2002 ~ Shorticles | Home
  We have painted the eastern boundary fence black. We tried to get some more of the black fence paint that we had already used.