I’ve started several poems and ground to a halt with them ... I might have a go at writing a poem on the difficulty of writing on a difficult subject ... 🥴
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
@Dovefromabove I'd be tempted to write about the dangers of allowing taboos to exist, or the harm that feeling you must keep other peoples' secrets can do to a person.
Our new dog has a shoe fetish.
The grass and weeds are growing like topsy but it's still raining. I'm worried about going out to the shops in case I can't find the house when I came back
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Your right to free speech, versus hate speech. The right to free speech, versus the right not to be abused. Anti-semitism, versus anti the policies of Israel.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
I could write a socio-political essay on it ... that would be easy ... but it’s not what I do and it wouldn’t ‘nourish’ me ... I need to subvert the subject somehow and I don’t have a lot of time ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We've been to Horning, had booked a short trip up the Broads on a paddle steamer. It was a lovely morning but now looks very cloudy and gloomy. From the boat we saw a beautiful thatched cottage which was sinking sideways. Just seen it on ITV East Anglia news. The poor owners, they can't reach their insurance company. They had re-thatched the roof in December.
We had lunch in Horning, no cooking tonight.
On the way there we went to a camping shop and GC. OH bought a shooting stick so he can sit for a bit if his leg is tired. I bought plants Half the price of Wyevale, big perennials for £5. On the way back we went to another GC and I bought more plants, including a big golden hosta with green leaf middles It's called "Velvet Moon", wonder if Hosta has it. I haven't yet dug up the huge red currant bush in the flower bed where most of them will go.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Sounds a lovely day @Busy-Lizzie ... a good day for a trip on the broads ... we had a day on the paddle steamer with food and music and dancing into the evening in 2000 marking some special events with colleagues from the Early Music and Art Centre where I worked. It was wonderful.
Shooting sticks are great and that hosta sounds fab.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Evening. Hope inspiration has kicked in Dove. Good title for a TV drama about something sinister, maybe an incriminating or evil secret...
My upcycling project has started! It was in the garage when we moved in. I think the piece is 1940s Utility. I’d like to think the first owners of our house had it, through the rationing system, as newly-weds maybe. There is a name in faint chalk on the back ‘Morgan’. I might varnish over it - keeping a bit of history.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Our new dog has a shoe fetish.
The grass and weeds are growing like topsy but it's still raining. I'm worried about going out to the shops in case I can't find the house when I came back
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
The right to free speech, versus the right not to be abused.
Anti-semitism, versus anti the policies of Israel.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We've been to Horning, had booked a short trip up the Broads on a paddle steamer. It was a lovely morning but now looks very cloudy and gloomy. From the boat we saw a beautiful thatched cottage which was sinking sideways. Just seen it on ITV East Anglia news. The poor owners, they can't reach their insurance company. They had re-thatched the roof in December.
We had lunch in Horning, no cooking tonight.
On the way there we went to a camping shop and GC. OH bought a shooting stick so he can sit for a bit if his leg is tired. I bought plants
Shooting sticks are great and that hosta sounds fab.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hope inspiration has kicked in Dove. Good title for a TV drama about something sinister, maybe an incriminating or evil secret...
My upcycling project has started! It was in the garage when we moved in. I think the piece is 1940s Utility. I’d like to think the first owners of our house had it, through the rationing system, as newly-weds maybe. There is a name in faint chalk on the back ‘Morgan’. I might varnish over it - keeping a bit of history.
I hope you'll send us a photo when you've updated it, AuntyRach.
That sounds a fun day, Dove, they must have removed some chairs for the dancing.
We are going out to a lunch thingy with friends tomorrow.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.