ruminate vb. to chew (the cud)
Seems like the less I have to do, the harder it gets to do it. In busier times I would have done my Saturday six on Friday so it was locked and loaded for launch. I started this yesterday, got as far as number four. Then this morning we popped out earlyish to get more…
Looks like WordPress are pretty much forcing everyone to use the block editor from June. Groan! Better get this six done and start on next weeks right away, see if I can cope with the change. Blustery and not especially warm here, not great for gardening in that the wind takes the pleasure out of…
I'm running late again, in that I am doing this on Saturday, when it's supposed to be done, rather than on Friday. There's a reason, involving cars and batteries, but let's not go there. The garden is dry but we have water. The nights have been cold all week but just above freezing. The world…
It started with the Thursday night clap. Most of our neighbours were in on that from about week two. Then one of my sisters set up a get together on Facebook messenger and that has become a Friday morning ritual. Then one of our neighbours suggested we have a bit of a socially distanced street…
The nation's favourite flower, so if its very identity is threatened by an alien invader, it's a matter of great national import. I realise now, with the great benefit hindsight brings, that my early gardening years were a time of great innocence. Innocence is perhaps the wrong word because what I probably mean is ignorance.…
On the 6th of May three years ago I somehow stumbled across the innaugural six on Saturday post by The Propagator and felt moved to respond. I may have missed a week somewhere in those three years, I really don't remember. It makes this my 156th six on Saturday post. Perhaps you think I should…
I've been trying to get to grips with the video editing side of Adobe Elements. I've use Photoshop Elements for picture editing for many years and through several versions of the program but only on my recent update of it did I plump for the video version as part of the package. Like the picture…
Back in January I did a short blog about grafting apples in the simplest way possible. https://wordpress.com/post/gardenruminations.co.uk/8269 Here, exactly 3 months later, is a progress report. I grafted three scions onto three shoots of apple that had appeared in my garden. I think they may have been suckers from the roots of an apple tree…
Somehow gardening has become a full time job and I can't imagine how I ever had time for anything else. I seem to spend about 75% of my time at home in the garden, 25% on my allotment. Two or three times a week Sue will be up for a walk and we'll amble around…
We actually had a bit of rain yesterday, sorely needed but nowhere near enough. Still, every little helps. I torture myself by looking all too frequently at the Met Office radar; it's amazing how much rain just misses us. I've been up my allotment most days this week, almost on top of the weeds that…
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