Price Points: Garden diaries

Garden diaries

We’ll have been living in our cottage in Wales for two years in early August, and we’re still making little changes and updates to the lovely garden that we inherited.

We’ve had a few successes and a few failures; the latter have mainly been down to the local wildlife helping themselves to our edible crops! Furthermore, we’re getting our heads round what’s planted where, what works, what doesn’t work and what new projects we’d like to try out next year.

I’d like to start jotting down all the garden ideas we have – my memory needs a bit of help these days. What I’ve been doing a lot recently is scrolling through our Instagram feed to see what was at its peak and when. I’ve noticed that things are a full month behind where they were this time last year; the roses, the veg seedlings, the foliage on the trees… We don’t post that many images to our Instagram feed – on average, one per day – but it can take AGES to get to photos posted a year ago.

Anyway, back to jotting down ideas – one of these garden diaries would be just the thing. I’d want one that’s not just for edibles. For example, we have a great selection of roses that I’d like to record details about – names & descriptions, locations in the garden, flowering times etc.

The printables option seems like the best bet for us. I can pick & choose the pages that are relevant and print those out as and when they’re needed, in the quantities I need.

  1. Big garden planner printables: £8.04, Etsy
  2. The edible garden journal: £10.75, Etsy
  3. RHS A gardener’s five year record book: £15.00, RHS

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RHS A gardener’s five year record book
RHS A gardener’s five year record book
£15.00
The edible garden journal
The edible garden journal
£10.75
Big garden planner printables
Big garden planner printables
£8.04
RHS A gardener’s five year record book
RHS A gardener’s five year record book
£15.00
The edible garden journal
The edible garden journal
£10.75
Big garden planner printables
Big garden planner printables
£8.04
RHS A gardener’s five year record book
RHS A gardener’s five year record book
£15.00
The edible garden journal
The edible garden journal
£10.75
Big garden planner printables
Big garden planner printables
£8.04
RHS A gardener’s five year record book
RHS A gardener’s five year record book
£15.00
The edible garden journal
The edible garden journal
£10.75
Big garden planner printables
Big garden planner printables
£8.04
RHS A gardener’s five year record book
RHS A gardener’s five year record book
£15.00
The edible garden journal
The edible garden journal
£10.75
Big garden planner printables
Big garden planner printables
£8.04

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Personalised H is for Home Toad diary

Hey, it’s October – the new school year has begun, many universities get under way next week. And, yes, Christmas and the new year are just around the corner. Good thing we’ve been super efficient and already have our personalised 2018 H is for Home diary to hand!

Personalised and customised H is for Home 2018 diary

We can’t take all the credit for being organised though; TOAD got in touch with us to collaborate on a review and give-away for our readers. TOAD®, which stands for TodayOrAnyDay, is giving someone the opportunity to design their very own personalised, customised, hand-made diary.

Personalised H is for Home Toad diary

Need a diary that starts at the beginning of the school term? Want one that commences on the day you embark on a year-long trip around the world? What about a diary that begins on your birthday?

Personalised H is for Home Toad diary

You can not only select the start date; you can choose the page layout, cover theme, colour & design, even the type of binding.

Personalised H is for Home Toad diary

Even though I have a calender app on my laptop, nothing beats good old pen & paper. I find the act of writing something down genuinely helps me remember it! Call me old fashioned, I also think it’s often so much easier to retrieve information by quickly flipping through pages than tapping on an app.

Personalised H is for Home Toad diary

With the help of a personalised TOAD® diary, you’ll have your life going according to plan in no time!

Personalised H is for Home Toad diary

To enter this month’s competition, comment telling us what would be the first entry in your new diary. As usual, there are lots of extra ways to gain bonus entries. Best of luck!

Personalised & customised TOAD® diary

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Christmas gifts of the day: 2017 calendars

Selection of 2017 calendars | H is for Home

Whether you need a little desk calendar just for your own work appointments or a jumbo wall calendar for all the family to jot down all their activities we’ve found some 2017 calendars for you!

We keep our calendar just inside our front door on a thin bit of wall above where we hang our keys. We tend to choose ones with flora or fauna illustrations by indie artists such as this one we had a few years ago by Gail Kelly.

We’re just off to order ourselves the Matt Sewell birds calendar – we already have some of his illustrated books – and this will be just the right fit for our narrow little space!

Price Points: 2016 Diaries

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selection of 2016 diaries | H is for Home

2015 is almost gone – just a fortnight’s worth of sand left in the timer. I don’t know about you, but with the proliferation of tech gadgets and apps around, I still like having the physicality of pen & paper to record certain things.

Every year, I carry over everyone’s birthdays from the previous year’s diary to the following year’s. I love to flip through the pages to remind myself of what I’d been up to during the prior 12 months. The work I had on, the deadlines that I had to meet, the weekends away, the people who came to visit…

I’ve been searching for a bright one for next year – orange being my favoured colour. Here’s what I came up with for 2016 diaries – budget, mid-range and deluxe.

  1. Panama collection orange 2016 Portobello diary in cross-grain lambskin: £180, Smythson
  2. ‘Colour a Month’ daily planner: £31.99, Moleskine
  3. Letts Two Tone A5 week to view diary: £9.49, Filofax