ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
The weather has been in limbo for a while now, a benign limbo, which is extending autumn and holding winter at bay. I haven't cut much down, there aren't a lot of leaves to rake up, plants are neither growing nor dying, active gardening is on hold. Most flowering things are winding down but so…
November now and there's a sense that 2024 is winding down. However, the weather is benign and everything looks much as it did a week ago. Finding six things wasn't a challenge. Followers will know that the six to which I refer is Six on Saturday and to be honest, non- followers might have worked…
Look out the window and it's blue sky dotted with white fluffy clouds. Step out and it's cold, blustery and periodically threatens rain. I'm doing my gardening in short bursts interspersed with long tea and coffee breaks. Tomorrow (I'm writing this on Friday) I shall be at Rosemoor for the AGM of the RCM. That's…
We had a 24 hour holiday midweek, joining one of my sisters in a holiday rental place in Porthleven, a place I'd never been to. Tuesday afternoon and evening we saw the sights, imbibed the beer and consumed the local fare, not to mention getting a good measure of the local weather. Wednesday we headed…
For a couple of days this week I was enjoying the company of my four sisters, something that has happened only at weddings and funerals since we were kids. A lot more eating and drinking went on than gardening as a result. They are now gone and life has returned to normal, with today spent…
It's not been a bad week weather wise but I've done very little gardening as I've had my eldest sister staying. In a place like Cornwall that means that you switch from normal resident behaviour to tourist behaviour and go around visiting places you normally avoid like the plague, but also places that are not…
It was April 1st 2013 that I first took on an allotment, plot 6. In August 2014 my employment came to an abrupt end and I have a photograph from 11th September 2014 showing my second plot with the grass yellowing, presumably having been sprayed with weedkiller a week or so earlier. I took it…
There are things that are definitely not better late than never, Covid being one of them. I have it; I don't like it. I've spent a fair bit of this week on my allotment and almost none in the garden. It's looking increasingly autumnal, to a degree that is all the more noticeable for spending…
Friday evening has come round again and it's time to put finger to keyboard and knock out another Six on Saturday. Should I be concerned that today is Friday 13th? I'm not, whether I should be or not. The temperature dipped to 3.8°C last night, which is pretty chilly for Cornwall in September, but looks…
September and I did a fairly quick whizz round the garden snapping away, thinking it was all in a bit of a downward spiral and now I look through the pictures I have at least 15 things I could put in. Opening the garden to visitors would entail a huge amount of hacking stuff back…
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