# helping hand (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover helping hand. Page: Feed: --- ## [The abandoned garden](https://ropersmiscellany.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-abandoned-garden.html) _2025-11-05 · Patrick Roper · Roper's Miscellany_ 7th November 2025. In spring Sammy was dividing up some plants of flowers currant and I took one piece to turn into a container grown, single stem cordon. It has settled down well and now it is putting out small new shoots and buds some of which may turn into early spring flowers. Pruning is best done after flowering and I shall look forward to that if I can get to the plant. Pruning and training… ## [1973 autobiograpy](https://ropersmiscellany.blogspot.com/2025/11/1973-autobiograpy.html) _2025-11-04 · Patrick Roper · Roper's Miscellany_ ## [1974 autobiographical notes](https://ropersmiscellany.blogspot.com/2025/11/1974-autobiographical-notes.html) _2025-11-04 · Patrick Roper · Roper's Miscellany_ 1974 Age 35/36. My team at the English Tourist Board consisted of Bill Richards, Caroline Gillies, Jean Ashton, Pauline Martin, Jean Cuthbertson and Michael Dewing. This year I wrote a little booklet called The Mini-conference Market about, believe it ornot, mini-conferences at hotels. I think I also started the survey of the Wild Service Tree following a Botanical Society of the British Isles… ## [1975 autobiographical notes](https://ropersmiscellany.blogspot.com/2025/11/1975-autobiographical-notes.html) _2025-11-04 · Patrick Roper · Roper's Miscellany_ These notes were written fifty years ago and are my particularly significant as the ye@r our son Charles (Dobby) was born. 1975 Age 36/37 - from my notes. Early in 1975 we saw our old friend John Newbery, now living (rather unhappily we felt)in Bull Cottage, Battle. He had had a series of strange misfortunes. On one occasion he had been standing in front of a log fire when their had been a loud… ## [4 November 2025](https://ropersmiscellany.blogspot.com/2025/11/i-have-been-going-back-over-some-of-my.html) _2025-11-04 · Patrick Roper · Roper's Miscellany_ 4 November 2025. I have been going back over some of my old notes that I discovered after thinking they had been lost in cyberspace. They stretch back over 70 years and my challenge is how to annotate and present them. Some of the better standalone essays have been copied to my website: www.patrickroper.co.uk