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'Naked Gardening for the Over-fifties' is my latest novel, which I will be serialising on this blog with a new chapter posted every day. If you like what you're reading, please consider heading over to FeedARead to buy the paperback. Thank you, and happy reading! (Click on 'read more' at the bottom of the page to see the chapters I have posted so far.) PART ONE CHAPTER ONE I woke late that morning to the sound of a radio discussion. The studio guests were doing the nudge-nudge, wink-wink thing about Naked Gardening Day . I had never heard of such a thing. Yesterday had been all sleet and snow flurries and I’d had to switch the heating back on. Naked Gardening? Good God. What a thought. The bed was empty, meaning Bill had already left to pick up his new car. I wondered if lard was the answer. You could slather it all over yourself, like a cross-channel swimmer, to keep out the cold. I could ask Bill to do the lard slapping, but he would refuse w