ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
Arrrgh! This is getting difficult. There really isn't a lot happening out there right now. I wandered around this morning looking for inspiration and finding none. Could I scrape together six flowers, of absolutely anything at all, the real diehards? What about low life, mosses, lichens, a fern or two? Maybe I could take half…
A bright shiny new year, just like the last one. The weather is on the turn, from relentless wet to something different. Might even get some sun. it doesn't look like it's going to get very cold where I am, a degree or two below zero at the worst. Enough to put the brakes on…
Not a lot left of 2023. This gardening year is drawing to a close with a minimal amount of gardening going on. The sun came out for a while this morning (Friday) and I went out to chop a few things down. We've warnings for wind both tomorrow and Sunday, as well as lots more…
It's been a couple of weeks since we had a frost that pretty much drew a line under the 2023 gardening year. I've done a bit of cutting down and tidying but it is still something of a soggy mess out there. I thought I'd seen the last of the autumn flowering Camellias, the open flowers…
I dragged myself out this morning and did a bit of gardening, then found myself this afternoon taking the glass off someone else's greenhouse to remove the moss balls and try to get it a bit more watertight. The frost last weekend saw off just about every remaining flower and though some of the Camellias…
I wonder what proportion of my SoS posts start off talking about the weather; most of them for sure. We probably just about hit zero Thursday night and by the time this post goes live at 7.30am, I shall know whether we hit the BBC's -4°C or the Met Offices' -2°C or neither of them.…
Only a month until 25th December. Frost forecast for tonight, several more over coming days. Nothing extreme but enough to be worrisome; what have I forgotten to bring in, should I have covered this and that. We've had a run of around four dry days, which I've taken advantage of to the extent of raking…
It's raining; again or still or both. The weather seems to have been in the same rut since July and looks set to stay in it. I'm slightly surprised that more things haven't collapsed in a mushy heap on the ground. It hasn't been really cold, a frost would reduce a lot of the soft…
Looking at the garden from an upstairs window, especially when the sun is shining, it really doesn't look bad at all. Get down amongst it and things are less rosy; it's soggy and mouldering and if we get the dry day the forecast is promising for tomorrow I'm going to chop a lot down, shred…
Storm Ciaran came and went and in spite of dire warnings we escaped with very little damage as it seems to have tracked a little further south than it might have, with the strongest winds hitting the Channel Islands and northern France. The garden did get something of a thrashing though and I think it…
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