ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
The glasshouse floor is finished, I have staging and shelving on order. I'll make it item number one even though nothing much is happening in there today. If a thing is just statically there, in situ, going nowhere, does it qualify as happening on a Saturday? A flower or plant is transitory, so it is…
Where do the weeks go, it's scary how little time seems to have lapsed since last week. I'm in full on project mode in the garden, sorting out the glasshouse that I used to call my propagation house. It's still essentially a sideshow to moving the tunnel but it needs doing so I have somewhere…
Almost the end of August, the year seems to have slipped through my fingers. I finally got around to dragging the roll of polythene out of the attic and measuring it; nowhere near big enough to re-sheet my tunnel. Yesterday I ordered a new sheet, and hot spot tape. I may have passed the point…
Hmmm, I seem to be in the WordPress block editor, so the outcome, or output, is uncertain at best. I'll give it a whirl before I throw my toys out of the pram. The last couple of days, especially yesterday, have been windy, so both the garden and I are looking a bit battered. I…
If this weather had wanted to do one redeeming thing it could actually have given us some rain, which both garden and allotment need quite badly. All the heavy stuff has contrived to miss us or to fizzle out just short of us. I'm a weather radar junkie, there has been massive rainfall all around…
The major event of the week was getting a visit from our local NGS organiser, resulting in provisional agreement that next year we will be opening for the National Garden Scheme. I'm in shock, I don't think the full implications have sunk in. There are things I've been putting off that I'm going to have…
Summer holiday season in Cornwall is always manic and I tend to hunker down and steer well clear of the busy bits. Sue was down in Looe during the week and said it was heaving. If you know where to go you can avoid the crowds completely. It's a safe bet that you could sit…
I seem to be accumulating drafts of blogs that never make it to being published. Nothing like a deadline to concentrate the mind. The weather is very much in blog finishing mode, endless drizzle. It always amazes me how much drizzle it takes to fill my water tanks; everything seems to be soaking wet but…
On thursday I was sowing cyclamen seeds, then yesterday I planted up some of the bare space in the front garden. It felt way too early to be sowing seeds and way too late to be planting. I have Cyclamen and Japanese anemones flowering. It seems like the chronological signposts have been removed. At least…
There's a mini-digger parked up on next doors drive, shortly to go into action to remove most of the soil from their front garden, to be replaced by gravel so they can park their vehicles. I'm finding it hard to see it as progress but maybe I'm just a grumpy old codger. Hey ho, where…
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