ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
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…
Just another week? Well not quite. On May 6th 2017 this post appeared on The Propagator, a blog I'd been following for a while. Scroll down to the comments section and you will see that I rose to the bait of a proposed new meme even in that very first week, posting an opening six…
We have a mini heatwave forecast for the coming week, with two days expected to reach the dizzy heights of 22°C. then going back down to maximums of 15°C by next weekend. It's no wonder the weather is a top subject for conversations amongst Brits, its just so exciting. In the absence of any significant…
It's raining. Our second full day of rain this week. The first was enough to refill all my water storage; this second lot will make sure the ground is well and truly soaked ready for a surge of spring growth. In short, enough already!!! The garden is mostly loving it, though that includes slugs, which…
The weather is set to change, essentially returning to normal; cooler with showers. It's getting rather dry out there so a bit of rain will be welcome, so long as it knows when to stop. The forecast is showing showery rain every day for the next fortnight, by which time I will be very tired…
After last week's excitement I am quite happy to report that this week has been relatively uneventful. Things are growing, the garden gets greener by the day. There will never be a better time to join the Saturday sixers; just post pictures of six things happening in your garden this Saturday and put a link…
Sometimes (rarely, it has to be admitted) my life horticultural (retired) goes through a frenetic patch. Like this week; Wednesday evening, talk to garden club (Camellias); Thursday and Friday, filming for Gardeners World (Camellias); Friday evening, talk to garden club (Begonias); Somewhen, write a Six on Saturday post; Saturday, escape to allotment for weeding and…
It seems stupid to be saying so, but the modest amount of rain we had today was very welcome. It's not that the ground is dry, just that if it does turn dry very early I worry that when growth takes off in the spring and the plants expect there to be plenty of moisture…
We've had nearly a week of cold nights, with frost forecast but not materialising to a significant degree. Tonight and tomorrow fit the same pattern, then it warms up a little. Sadly, it currently looks like the last cold night might be the coldest and there's a world of difference between +1 and -1. Just…
If Sue had still been in Australia she would around about now be experiencing the calm in the eye of a cyclone, in that the forecast track of Alfred is right over the top of where she was staying. It puts our weather, about which we complain so much, into perspective. The transition from winter…
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