ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
Oh so gloomy out. It's dry and not exceptionally cold, so usable weather for doing the things that need doing, but there's not a lot of pleasure in it. I need to get out there, I have things needing doing. One. Two years ago at this time we were down under in Australia. Their fruit…
For a while now, not a lot has been changing from one weekend to the next, at least where the garden is concerned. We have a couple of three frosty nights coming up, so that might be about to change, followed by a dry week. One. The only frost we've had here was on the…
There seems to be fair bit of stuff that is perhaps a bit too far on, at risk of getting frosted, vulnerable to slugs. Then there are last year's leftovers, things like Salvia and Plectranthus, that got singed by frost but are still hanging on. Difficult to know what to try and protect, what to…
It's been a dry week and I should have done lots of gardening but I haven't. There are a few minor things happening but I thought they'd keep for another week. Instead I've set myself a small challenge, to come up with six different takes on the same thing. It seemed like a good idea…
Well here we are twixt Christmas and a new year, again. I should reflect on the year just gone. . . . . . . . ., there, that's done. Perhaps some resolutions for next year? Nah, don't like the sound of that, let's go with good intentions rather than resolutions. One. Move the tunnel.…
The output from my solar panels gives me a check on how much we've seen of the sun this month and it's not a lot. It's still already higher than for the whole of December last year though. The total for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday this week wouldn't have brewed a cup of tea. In…
I've done a fair few of these six on Saturday posts and it occurred to me to wonder whether I'd missed anything, so I took a stroll round the garden and noted a few things I thought I might never have included, then came back in and checked. I could do at least three weeks…
Benign day today, gales tomorrow. We had a couple of frosts during the week so there's a lot of mush about but we're now back to the more usual succession of weather systems coming in off the Atlantic. It's not so much that nothing is happening outdoors, just that it's the same few things going…
I just listened to Sandy Denny's 'Late November'; first time in years. Getting nostalgic. How can she have been gone over 40 years? It's cold and wet and drear and dreich and I've got a cold. Must be winter. I haven't been out much lately, it never seems to stop raining and there's not a…
Just after I'd posted last Saturday's six, I loaded up the car with crocheted cacti and assorted other crafteries and took Sue down to Lanreath Church where she was partaking in a craft fair. With about four hours at my disposal before I had to collect her, I went across to Lockengate to visit one…
