ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
It started with the Thursday night clap. Most of our neighbours were in on that from about week two. Then one of my sisters set up a get together on Facebook messenger and that has become a Friday morning ritual. Then one of our neighbours suggested we have a bit of a socially distanced street…
On the 6th of May three years ago I somehow stumbled across the innaugural six on Saturday post by The Propagator and felt moved to respond. I may have missed a week somewhere in those three years, I really don't remember. It makes this my 156th six on Saturday post. Perhaps you think I should…
Somehow gardening has become a full time job and I can't imagine how I ever had time for anything else. I seem to spend about 75% of my time at home in the garden, 25% on my allotment. Two or three times a week Sue will be up for a walk and we'll amble around…
We actually had a bit of rain yesterday, sorely needed but nowhere near enough. Still, every little helps. I torture myself by looking all too frequently at the Met Office radar; it's amazing how much rain just misses us. I've been up my allotment most days this week, almost on top of the weeds that…
And so it goes on. Applause broke out at 8pm on Thursday so I opened the window and joined it, then someone went for a bottle of wine and before long there were all our neighbours out with chairs and bottles, all keeping a sensible distance from each other but socialising in a totally unprecedented…
I considered doing my six as a video this week but having done so for the RCM group on Thursday wasn't ready to repeat the performance. Does anyone know a simple way to get video from an iPhone onto a Windows PC? I managed, but what a performance. (I tried again and succeeded, it doesn't…
One good intention that has so far fallen flat is the one about doing a bit more blogging while in theory I have more time to do it and readers more time to read it. I have excuses, the weather was too good and my allotment is a mess after a winter of doing nothing;…
I am just so thankful that I have a decent sized garden to keep me occupied, distracted, isolated and sane. It's all been said, I'll move on. If there's one thing in the garden that will lift your spirits it's flowers and by good fortune the weather has taken a turn for the better this…
It's not for improving, this weather. Looks like the week after next might be better. I'm clutching at straws. One. Right, let's get this one of my chest. On Monday I went to my local garden club and someone had brought along Daffodil 'Rapture' for the flower competition we have. Last year I planted five…
Six things happening in the garden eh, how about rain, rain, rain, rain, rain and more rain. I'm grateful I still have a garden, not a river or lake. Actually it's bright sunshine just now, but ten minutes ago it was sleeting. The garden is wet and windswept but by degrees it's waking up from…
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