ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
A bright shiny new year, just like the last one. The weather is on the turn, from relentless wet to something different. Might even get some sun. it doesn't look like it's going to get very cold where I am, a degree or two below zero at the worst. Enough to put the brakes on…
Not a lot left of 2023. This gardening year is drawing to a close with a minimal amount of gardening going on. The sun came out for a while this morning (Friday) and I went out to chop a few things down. We've warnings for wind both tomorrow and Sunday, as well as lots more…
Winter equinox is now history, the days are getting longer, currently about a minute a day longer. I went out with my camera to look for positivity, signs of growth in the gloom. I'm very pleased to say that I found them, so, notwithstanding the fact that they are not at all photogenic, I picked…
Even when it hasn't been raining in the last couple of weeks, the light levels have been low and my attempts to produce a film snapshot have left me with hours of profoundly dull footage. The conceit that I hold to is that I have an all year round garden with at least a few…
It's been a couple of weeks since we had a frost that pretty much drew a line under the 2023 gardening year. I've done a bit of cutting down and tidying but it is still something of a soggy mess out there. I thought I'd seen the last of the autumn flowering Camellias, the open flowers…
I dragged myself out this morning and did a bit of gardening, then found myself this afternoon taking the glass off someone else's greenhouse to remove the moss balls and try to get it a bit more watertight. The frost last weekend saw off just about every remaining flower and though some of the Camellias…
I wonder what proportion of my SoS posts start off talking about the weather; most of them for sure. We probably just about hit zero Thursday night and by the time this post goes live at 7.30am, I shall know whether we hit the BBC's -4°C or the Met Offices' -2°C or neither of them.…
Only a month until 25th December. Frost forecast for tonight, several more over coming days. Nothing extreme but enough to be worrisome; what have I forgotten to bring in, should I have covered this and that. We've had a run of around four dry days, which I've taken advantage of to the extent of raking…
It's raining; again or still or both. The weather seems to have been in the same rut since July and looks set to stay in it. I'm slightly surprised that more things haven't collapsed in a mushy heap on the ground. It hasn't been really cold, a frost would reduce a lot of the soft…
I’ve been out in the garden with my camera to take a snapshot of how it looks in November. It's still quite passable, provided you don't look too closely. I've done a bit of cutting down and tidying up, need to do more, but the great thing with a camera is you can choose what…
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