Joe's Diary

In case you’ve had a cold for the past few days and haven’t managed to pull back the curtains out of fear you’ll be missing out on something amazing, you’ve been missing out on something amazing – the sun. It’s been shining like mad. It’s almost like it went for a power nap before a [read more]

We’ll be straight with you: Marmite is a million times better than Bovril. There’s no contest. We know that’s got very little (read: nothing) to do with lawn care, but it was weighing heavy on our shoulders and so blurting it out seemed necessary. Now we’ve done this, we’ll be straight with you in lawn [read more]

Spring has arrived. Actually, let’s rephrase that a little. Spring was meant to arrive. Alas it snowed and rained and rained and snowed. But just because spring hasn’t arrived yet doesn’t mean it isn’t coming. It is. It’s just running fashionably late which, in gardening speak, means it’s about two-three weeks behind schedule. No. it’s [read more]

If you’ve been an adult for longer than six minutes, then you’ll know this whole being a “grown-up” thing isn’t the freedom you hoped it would be. You quickly learn that three takeaways a day is not feasible, mobile phone games aren’t that fun and having a bedroom floordrobe is a nightmare. Yup, eventually, we [read more]

It may have been sporadic, but there have been some serious bursts of sunshine recently, like real sunshine, and of the warm variety too. It’s not quite been t-shirt weather or anything, but we’ve definitely been out and about without a coat on and that’s got be worth a few hip-hip-hoorays at the very least. [read more]