My mental picture is of a group of kind, talented people with boundless energy and beautiful (weed free) gardens. Please don't shatter my dreams, it gives me something to aspire to.
No weeds on this site. They are in the area of the garden which has been allowed to 'naturalise' to support more wildlife. Well that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.
My RTBC is that the plumber has come, a mere 6 months after I first asked him to service the heat pumps... the earth leakage I wrote a curmudge about, became terminal last night - we had to turn off the hot water system in order to restore power to the sockets. Fortunately the plumber considered this an emergency...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
As it's International Dawn Chorus day and l was awake, l stood at the open bedroom window at 4.30 am, and for over half an hour listened to the most beautiful sound. Just for a while it was possible to forget the problems of the world. It has calmed down now and is starting to be drowned out by the sounds of aircraft, cars etc. so l have made a cup of tea and gone back to bed. An uplifting start to the day
😁😁😁 @pansyface. The first sound to break the magic was some pillock on a motorbike belting down the bypass, followed by his mate. The spell was broken sadly, but it was lovely while it lasted.
I spose the noisy pillocks might have been heading to work … few folk are up and about that early on a bank holiday Sunday morning from choice, whatever their mode of transport. They might even have been heading for a dairy farm to get the cows in and do the early morning milking … that would’ve been my Pa one May morning many years ago … when he passed a hawthorn bush in full flower (no full face helmets then) and sneezed, crashed his motorbike and ended up in hospital. Ma was livid ‘cos his brother wouldn’t help and there was only early evening visiting and because she had to do the milking on her own she couldn’t visit so his parents did all the visiting. They’d only been married a few weeks. That’s one of our family stories that always got told at the beginning of May … I always think of it around now.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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No weeds on this site. They are in the area of the garden which has been allowed to 'naturalise' to support more wildlife. Well that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.
It has calmed down now and is starting to be drowned out by the sounds of aircraft, cars etc. so l have made a cup of tea and gone back to bed.
An uplifting start to the day
The first sound to break the magic was some pillock on a motorbike belting down the bypass, followed by his mate. The spell was broken sadly, but it was lovely while it lasted.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.