ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
My beautiful, creative and wonderful wife and soulmate passed far too early from this world yesterday and I am heartbroken. She passed her last few weeks in the care of Mount Edgcumbe Hospice in St Austell and I cannot adequately express my gratitude for the exemplary care they have provided not just for her but…
No six from me this week, you’ll have to post your links down below and talk amongst yourselves. I’ll be back as soon as I’m able and will let you know what’s been going on.
April. It's bursting out all over and threatening to overwhelm me, same as every year around this time. At least the weather has not been a hindrance for the last week or so and with luck the storm forecast for the weekend won't affect us much down here. I'm doing a lot of weeding, getting…
Life is more than a little complicated just now so this post was compiled earlier this week and scheduled for this morning, just in case I was indisposed. It's turned cool and somewhat rainy so it's a fair bet that things will slow down in the garden and not much will have changed. One.I took…
Tonight's the night I am on TV, on Gardeners World. I've set the recorder to record it and may not watch it until later. It's a good thing they filmed it last year and not this, they haven't been as good this year for some reason. We've had three days of sunshine and I've probably…
Two Friday the thirteenths in succession. Good thing I'm not superstitious. The gardening season continues to pick up slowly and in the case of this week it perhaps went back a bit. I'm up at Rosemoor tomorrow (Saturday) for their Spring Flower Showcase, including the RHS Early Camellia Competition. We've had a couple of days…
We've had two dry days in a row and tomorrow is set to make three. We really do seem to be moving into spring. I'm itching to get stuck in to gardening tasks but it must be too early to contemplate no more frost and start putting things outside. I need to be patient and…
Another month down, March tomorrow. I'm slowly getting back to gardening, tidying up mostly, but some seed sowing too. I started the long deferred task of cleaning out my propagator, with a view to getting cuttings of a few things under way; Fuchsias for one, not sure what else yet. Taking photos for this week's…
I had it on my to do list to sow some tomato seeds today and somehow or other it didn't happen. I took some pictures in the drizzle this morning, then it brightened up so I chose to go out and take them again. What else did I do? Where did the day go? Now…
A week ago I was getting a bit excited about a pot of snowdrops I'd been given. This week I have nothing to get excited about and last week's excitement was probably overblown, now that I've realised what I had been gifted. Oops, that sounds very ungrateful, which was not my intention. I've done the…
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