ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
The work on our driveway has ground on all week and will run a couple of days into next week. I've not done much in the garden, which continues to slowly awaken from its slumbers. Another foul spell of windy and wet weather is forecast for this afternoon which I'm not looking forward to since…
OMG I'm a nervous wreck. They arrived to start on our drive on Thursday. A day of breaking concrete ensued, a day in fear of them breaking much more than concrete. Friday was a bit of a respite as they were only here for three hours, levelling out the base layer. I'd had to clear…
It’ll be a miracle if this works. We have no proper internet connection, I’m working through someone else’s access, next door presumably. Just need to get pictures from my computer to the iPad as the computer won’t connect to the same Wi-fi. There’ll be a way to do it but I’m too old. One. Has…
I thought WordPress was being a bit odd yesterday and this morning when I went to publish my post the draft had vanished. I'm doing a Saturday rewrite. Yesterday was just a bit frosty, today is brisk and breezy with rain not far off. Our cats go a bit mental when it's windy. I've been…
It's not getting any easier to find six things to include. Things are sort of happening, two or three camellias with one flower apiece, crocus blooms that don't open because it's dull and cold, daffodil buds, weeds, slugs. Anyway, here goes. One.Camellia 'Quintessence'. This was planted out a year ago having been in a pot…
Another drab winters day here but a bit less cold than it's been. By the end of next week something might have changed out there but right now there's no discernible difference from a week ago. I seem to have this notion in my head that for something to be "happening" it must have progressed…
Thursday night was proper cold, a real shame because there are a few more Camellias starting to flower now and it has toasted them. Fortunately I took a few pictures on Thursday afternoon, having seen the forecast. It's what would have been happening Saturday had the weather been kinder. One.Camellia grijsii. As in many plant…
It was a beautiful day yesterday once it had warmed up a bit. Perfect gardening weather. What was I doing? I was clearing out the attic. All that junk I arrived with 30 odd years ago; a car load went to the dump this morning, there's a lot more still to go. If there'd been…
We had one frosty night this week, then the rain rolled in again. It blackened some hydrangea leaves and Hedychium 'Tara' is looking less chipper, though still standing. As far as things happening, there really isn't anything new, what I put in last week is still true and this week's six could have been done…
I imagine I'm not alone in putting my Saturday sixes together on the Friday, an arrangement that means this was written in one year to be published in the next. A 50:50 split between looking back and looking forward suggests itself but is not what's on offer. It hasn't been a great year so looking…
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