ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
The last post for October and the clocks go back this weekend. It's also forecast to be a good deal cooler this weekend than it's been. So what, I say. This is Six on Saturday, there must be something going on out there. And so there is; flowers, fruits, successes and failures. Then there are…
Past the middle of October and the garden is getting scruffy but there's still plenty of flower and I'm certainly not at the stage of doing an autumnal clear up. Which is not to say I haven't made a start on some of the tasks on my winter check list. Anyhow, finding six things to…
Well, storm Amy came and went and we're all still here. Seems a long time ago. I don't know how other people in the UK fared but there was no significant damage done in our garden and the slow autumnal descent into chaos continues at a very leisurely pace. There are lots of flowers still,…
It's Friday and I'm not going out to take any more pictures today. Hopefully I have enough in the can to put together a Saturday Six without an excess of repetition or deviation. There may be a bit of hesitation though. I've said it before but I'll say it again, Six on Saturday is a…
The traditionalists around me at my allotment site have cleared away their summer crops and dug the ground over to be left rough over winter for frost to break it down. NOT my plot I'm not a traditionalist and have come to regard such behaviour as sadly misguided. For me they are damaging soil structure,…
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