Mother's Garden

My April of remembrance

mothersgarden.es@gmail.com (Martin Kirby) — Wed, 02 May 2012 14:43:19 +0000

Squalls and sunshine; legions of broken clouds shunted westward by a pepper wind; double rainbows two days on the trot; a myriad of wild blooms reigned over by the poppies; the intoxicating beauty of Mother’s Garden as, brimming, I stare at one of life’s great milestones. Am I really so old? During the long month of April [...]

Loose leaf tea and fine literature

mothersgarden.es@gmail.com (Martin Kirby) — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 09:53:12 +0000

Ah, the ethereal contentment of loose leaf tea and fine literature. Since November 10 we have spent an hour every Sunday morning wandering the fields and lanes of 1930s north Suffolk, England, in the irresistible company of Adrian Bell; living with him, lost in the colours and truths reflected in his eyes, walking in his measured [...]

Static attack (and I don’t mean the cat)

mothersgarden.es@gmail.com (Martin Kirby) — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 04:23:41 +0000

There has been something in the winter air at Mother’s Garden, and it hurts. Strangely, as the clear night temperatures in the Catalan mountains slid to minus 10 after a mild January, the ache of brittle cold was not adorned with jewels of frost. Instead the startling absence of humidity caused sparks to fly. The static here [...]

Our fresh olive oil now in Canada and America

mothersgarden.es@gmail.com (Martin Kirby) — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 09:12:15 +0000

Do you live in Canada or America? Would you like to try our fresh, top award-winning extra virgin arbequina olive oil? New harvest olive oil straight from the village mill here in The Priorat, Catalonia, Spain, will be arriving in Toronto – where Maggie was born – any day now for immediate delivery to private clients [...]

Fossils, mistletoe and great warriors

mothersgarden.es@gmail.com (Martin Kirby) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:29:33 +0000

The cold has bitten deep in January, but December was deliciously mild and the memory warms us. On Boxing Day, unable to amble beside the whispering pines and stout marram grass on Norfolk’s Holkham beach (Christmas always spells distance for us) we took off for a neighbouring village in these hauntingly beautiful Catalan mountains, following [...]

Dear Meryl, I have a Moon Daisy for you

mothersgarden.es@gmail.com (Martin Kirby) — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 19:22:26 +0000

I am releasing a seed of hope on to the ceaseless airs of the internet. What chance is there I can get a message to an outstanding actress via one of you? Well, you never know unless you strive. If you don’t ask you will never have an answer. Read on. With vivid imaginings of the wetland [...]

Christmas thoughts from The Garden

mothersgarden.es@gmail.com (Martin Kirby) — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 08:51:04 +0000

The wood burner crackles with life after damp mornings of downpour or mist, but still no hard frost as, overall, the weeks and days running up to Christmas have been in contrast to the economic storm embroiling the continent. I continue to track Jupiter at night and ponder on Voyager, the space probe that is now [...]

Rush for New Harvest Unfiltered Olive Oil

mothersgarden.es@gmail.com (Martin Kirby) — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 11:19:10 +0000

Our annual NEW HARVEST UNFILTERED olive oil shipment has now landed in England for Christmas feasts – and 90 per cent has already been sold! Every year demand for the freshest, finest olive oil grows as, thankfully, more and more people appreciate that freshness is as equally important as provenance and a guarantee that the olive [...]

Handprints, relics, whispers and wonderings

mothersgarden.es@gmail.com (Martin Kirby) — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:23:18 +0000

There are places where time concertinas, when history thumps you in the chest. Marçà-Giné’s ledge, a 60-seconds eagle glide from Mother’s Garden, is one such cradle of whispers. A vast lump of limestone, as big as a bus, rests, tilting slightly, at the rear of this human eyrie, beneath the summit of the little Miloquera mountain. [...]

Sing Away holiday at Mother’s Garden

mothersgarden.es@gmail.com (Martin Kirby) — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 06:54:10 +0000

We are excited to announce that in April 2012 we will be holding a week-long singing holiday here at Mother’s Garden, organised in collaboration with singing teacher Teresa Verney of Sing For Joy. Teresa will teach a wide range of simple songs she will show participants how to explore ways of using the voice to express [...]