ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
All week the forecast has been for overnight frost or pretty close and so far it hasn't materialised. I want to start moving things out from the greenhouse to make room for veg being grown for the allotment. It looks like this weekend sees the back of it for a while. It being pretty cold,…
This has to be my favourite season, so much is happening or starting to happen. You get to see what has survived the winter, whether the apple grafts done in January have taken, which seeds have finally germinated. On the down side battle is joined again with the hordes of slugs and every dip in…
Way back in November I ordered the parts to extend Sue's cactus house. It all turned up yesterday. 18 weeks is, I think, a little shorter than was predicted but it's still a long time to wait in these days of instant gratification. Most of that time has not been suitable for putting it up…
The frost and gales of last week are a distant memory and the camellias that were trashed have mostly made a good recovery, with others just getting under way. It's Camellias all the way down this week; if you don't like pink, look away now. Or you could go back to the running man's link…
The weather has had it in for us this week. We hit -4°C earlier in the week then the wind set in. I don't like wind, it makes me tetchy. Another week has passed without me even getting into the garden much, far less doing anything useful out there. This morning it's doing that old…
The temperature dropped to -2°C overnight, -3.5°C the night before and -4°C the night before that. That's pretty cold for Cornwall and is what happens when you get a an easterly or north easterly air flow, low wind speeds and clear skies at this time of year. From all other directions the wind would be…
Very early on I realised that I couldn't remember what I'd posted in these sixes even a couple of weeks ago, so I started keeping a list of what I included week by week. Otherwise it becomes a diary in which it is hard to find anything. At some point I started putting in the…
The pace is picking up. The sun is shining, the flowery stuff is really starting to kick off. I've sowed more seeds, taken the first Fuchsia cuttings and finished chopping down all of last years dead herbaceous growth. In the autumn I sowed lettuce and potted them up in the greenhouse; we've had a couple…
Most of the time you can point a camera at a flower, focus in the middle, take the picture and get something acceptable. A wider aperture will blur out the background and the fact that the nearest and furthest points of the flower are slightly blurred won't matter at all. A typical single flower where…
We're off to get our jabs this morning, it feels almost like a day out, given that we are going to the Wadebridge Showground; twenty miles away, quite an outing. On top of a hill in North Cornwall when there are warnings out for rain and 50mph wind gusts forecast. Quite an outing. It's been…
