ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
Wednesday was a day of almost constant drizzle which by Thursday morning was registering 7.5mm of rain in the rain gauge. Even so, such is the total area of roofs from which I collect rainwater that it added a lot to my storage. More rain is forecast for the weekend which should add a good…
Friday evening again, on a very warm day that it seems wrong to complain about, given how few of them we get, so I'll say nought more about it. We are having to do a lot of watering and are getting through our stored water quite quickly. So far there has been no mention of…
Summer trundles on, doing its summery thing. Back in the 1980's our garden was literally the corner of a meadow, though there is very little evidence left now. The farmer whose land it was is pretty elderly now and while he has been round our garden in the past has not done so recently. I…
Nearly the end of June, high summer. I'm more or less into a ticking over phase, everything is planted and growing, it just needs watering and tying and tweaking to give of its best. It looks like we're due a short lived burst of heat, peaking on Monday at about 26C. Six items of interest…
One more hot day and then it cools down. I'm not a heat lover, 21°C is about my ideal; today's 27°C was something of a slog. Gardening as an active pursuit goes on, we've three more openings, two days each time, the next on 3/4th July. Changes need to be made soon after an opening…
Friday evening, still raining, as it has since about 1pm. Three couples braved the weather and visited the garden, three more than we had expected. Tomorrow should be better. Our antipodean visitors move on to London tomorrow, taking Sue with them, so it's going to seem very quiet. Between last minute tidying up and having…
Flaming June! Huh! We have family over from Australia and while we were never going to compete with their weather, we could have done without the demo of a proper Cornish summer. The garden is loving it, though the marauding molluscs are having a ball. There have been many fatalities and there will be many…
I was finally paying attention today when the sun reached the point it was running directly down the side of the house, i.e. at a right angle to the front wall. Bang on noon. Any plant close to that line of shadow suddenly finds itself in the full glare of midday sun. If we were…
The house painting is finished but the scaffolding is still up, so while the chaos has receded a little, we are far from back to normal. It looks like we have another week of sunny weather before a possible breakdown so everything is growing like mad, good for the build up to opening the garden…
We have a man painting the house, so scaffolding up and everything near to the house moved away. It's chaos, and I don't cope well with chaos not of my making. A week ago we had a fortnight of good weather in prospect; that's now changed and I'm dreading the painting job getting drawn out…
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