ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
My beautiful, creative and wonderful wife and soulmate passed far too early from this world yesterday and I am heartbroken. She passed her last few weeks in the care of Mount Edgcumbe Hospice in St Austell and I cannot adequately express my gratitude for the exemplary care they have provided not just for her but…
Following a talk to our garden club by a lady from Prickles and Paws, a hedgehog rescue centre in Cornwall, we signed up as a release site for rehabilitated hedgehogs. Our first arrival was in February 2024 and he didn't seem to hang around for long before disappearing.Earlier this year, on 19 August, we took…
I seem to have killed off the section on my home page entitled 'blogs I like', which is what happens when you start fiddling around without knowing what you're doing. I wanted to remove a link from the list, having received an email yesterday saying the blog in question had been taken down. I'm not…
It's beginning to look as if summer hits the buffers next Tuesday, with a big Atlantic low incorporating the remains of Hurricane Erin arriving. I feel like a dying man in a desert eking out his last few drops of water with civilisation just visible on the horizon, a few days crawl away, praying the…
We are opening our garden on eight days this summer under the NGS, in four sets of two consecutive days. Our latest was the 3rd and 4th of July and this video is for those of you who were unable to make it. Unlike my video of our last opening I have put a partial…
I suspect that if I look in my draft posts folder that there will be one from earlier this year about my allotment. I'm sure I at least started such a thing and I would be unsurprised if I never finished and posted it. The allotment ticks over in very small increments so there never…
We're just about to move into meteorological summer so I suppose if you don't have six things happening in your garden now then the only reason you're reading this is for the vicarious pleasure of seeing pictures from gardens that do. Or you're a long way down in the southern hemisphere maybe. The name of…
We look set for a lot of weather this weekend and with a Met Office amber warning hanging over us I am getting a little nervous. I write these things on Friday evening and by the time it goes out Saturday morning I will probably know whether that nervousness was well founded or not. We're…
There are people with large gardens who never water anything and there are people with small gardens stuffed with water hungry plants in pots stood in full sun, who never seem to do anything but watering. On a sunny summer's day we're in the second camp, or at least feel like we are. It would…
We had a very wet and windy day yesterday so I figured the algae that was starting to reappear on the roof of Sue's glasshouse would be easily brushed off. When I got there with brush and hose it was to find broken glass on the floor and a hole in the roof. My first…
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