Right, despite the country going to hell in a handcart, my foxgloves have germinated, the sun is shining and I've got an ice cream cone in the freezer with my name on it. I'm going to concentrate on the positives today.
Working in the garden today and the local Youth Orchestra have been practising for their concert in the Church this evening - music whilst you work - fantastic
What about 2 hours of bell ringing practice. 😫😩
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Working in the garden today and the local Youth Orchestra have been practising for their concert in the Church this evening - music whilst you work - fantastic
What about 2 hours of bell ringing practice. 😫😩
Just a wild guess, but I suspect the church and its bell tower were there when you purchased the property. The price of living near a church I guess.
Got back from the hospital about 8.00 pm after my wife had the all clear on the mammogram. It was only a routine annual check up but, having had two previous incidences of breast cancer (and four more cancers as well) even routine stuff cranks the stress level up to ten.
We sat on the terrace with a celebratory bottle of wine and it was almost silence but for nestlings chirruping and distant sheep bleating. So, so faintly we heard a distant plane about every 10 minutes and used the tracker app, recommended by someone on this forum quite recently, to see what was flying from where to where. Fascinating stuff.
The garden is getting a little crisp around the edges but still looking lovely and as twilight crept in we watched the bats followed by a squadron of raucous roosting rooks. We must count our blessings because blessed we truly are.
Here is my ongoing current reason to be cheerful. I have always admired the wild Golden Rod plant and really wanted it in my lawn meadow. Hence, several years ago, I dug some up from a piece of waste ground but nothing happened for years.....and this year they are resplendent and now gracing my garden!
Also, above them, is my loquat tree - bearing fruit for the first time in decades! Luscious tasting (cross between apricot and mango, texture of plum) and high in antioxidants. 😋
A 'weed' is just a plant in the wrong place - subjective!
Sparrows are paying a debt of honour! To repay me for stealing my cherry plum blossoms every spring, they're now busy eating bugs on my rosa glauca. I hope they're sawfly larvae but any bug will do😋
@wild flower I’ve had this house for three years, the inherited loquat tree has fruited for the first time (tmk) and is smothered. The Persimmon tree has also set tonnes of fruit. Same I don’t like either but I’m sure the wildlife will love them! OH has threatened to make loquat and pomegranate jam though, which might or might not be interesting...
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
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Got back from the hospital about 8.00 pm after my wife had the all clear on the mammogram. It was only a routine annual check up but, having had two previous incidences of breast cancer (and four more cancers as well) even routine stuff cranks the stress level up to ten.
We sat on the terrace with a celebratory bottle of wine and it was almost silence but for nestlings chirruping and distant sheep bleating. So, so faintly we heard a distant plane about every 10 minutes and used the tracker app, recommended by someone on this forum quite recently, to see what was flying from where to where. Fascinating stuff.
The garden is getting a little crisp around the edges but still looking lovely and as twilight crept in we watched the bats followed by a squadron of raucous roosting rooks. We must count our blessings because blessed we truly are.
To repay me for stealing my cherry plum blossoms every spring, they're now busy eating bugs on my rosa glauca. I hope they're sawfly larvae but any bug will do😋