It's roasting in the bedroom but the neighbours' VE day celebration has now turned into a full party with DJ playing over a PA system. No sleep until he shuts up Luckily the kids seem to be sleeping through it for now. I feel bad for the couple with a newborn a few doors up though.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Wild Edges, people have few enough opportunities to blow off steam at the moment so they naturally take advantage when they can. It's not reasonable to expect everybody else to adapt their lives around your needs. That was one event.
When did I say they had to adapt to my needs? The kids slept through it and we stayed up until they were done. They put their families at a lot of risk and potentially undid all the weeks of work of the lockdown for a night of fun but that's up to them. I'm sure they weren't the only ones.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Since I have to rely on public transport and all the garden centres on a bus route near me have closed over the past year I feel my one chance to make a useful escape from 'house arrest' melting away.
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." Sir Terry Pratchett
I've been digging over and weeding a shady border. The ground is still quite sticky, although I can remove the weeds, but the sun is blazing down on me and I think I'm about to melt.
Some small rodent got into my (zipped up) "blow-away" growhouse last night, and upset two seed trays full of little pots of just-sown seed... I've transferred all the scraped-up compost, with unidentifiable seeds distributed throughout, into a tray, and put all the labels in, so if anything germinates (a long shot, but you never know) I might have a chance of working out what it might be. Probably a dandelion, knowing my luck.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
That must be so annoying @Liriodendron, mice seem to be able to get in anywhere, I hope your seedlings survive. I found a chewed hanging basket liner in my cold frame a week or so, god knows how they got in.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.