ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
A week ago we were hunkered down waiting for storm Darragh to blow itself out. We had a bit of damage, which has provided me with a couple of items for my six that I'd have been happier without. Now we're in a quiet spell of weather, very dull, pretty cold but at least dry,…
I've had a horticulturally interesting week which included an out of season visit to Trewithen Garden to look at their autumn flowering camellias and a day getting a very large piece of fallen tree off a garage roof. So much for retirement. The latter is threatening to draw me into the complexities of Tree Preservation…
A week can be a long time in gardening. A week ago everything seemed in remarkably good shape considering how late in the year it was; now the weather has at least caught up with itself, if not running slightly ahead. We've had frost and snow and are forecast gales and lots of rain. Suddenly…
Every time I look at the weather forecast for the coming week the lowest temperatures seem to have gone down a degree. A couple of days ago it looked like we might escape a frost but that is no longer the case. I need to set up heaters and check thermostats and get more things…
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…
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