ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
Enough already. I get fed up with overly hot weather just as quickly as wet. Take your eye off something for a moment and its scorched or shrivelled. And everything is over so quickly when it's hot; last week I was waiting for a peony to open, a week on and both that flower and…
It seems to me that the heatwave that arrived today for most of the UK was being talked up a week ago. It's been a long time getting here. I'm resigned to a sizeable chunk of the next several days being spent watering. Not that I'm complaining, well perhaps a little. Everything is growing like…
It seems to have been blowing a gale almost all week, and none too warm either. It's been a fairly productive week garden wise though, coming along. I've been playing with a new camera, it's going to take a lot of getting used to but I'm seeing potential. All it takes is six pictures and…
Another week of doing precious little else but gardening. I don't feel I'm getting ahead, but maybe I'm holding my own. At least the weather is playing ball, dry but not too hot. I still spend a lot of time watering, the price of growing too much in pots. I'm just looking at one of…
Oh what a lovely day. Sunny, warmish, the wind had finally dropped and it was a simple pleasure to be pottering around in the garden, planting, watering, potting on. Should I run out of things to do in my garden I always have my allotment to keep me busy. No shortage of things to include…
Thank you all for your sympathetic words regarding Sue's passing. Many of you alluded to the solace to be found in gardening at times such as these and it is indeed where I have spent much of my time in the last couple of days. It seems to me that the solace to be found…
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…
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