After my recent debauched weekend, today I was back at the coal face. How I suffered in the cosseting rays of the benign autumn sun. With unremitting bravery I bore the hardships of garden gossip, planning the year ahead, collecting seed of aubergine hollyhocks, planting out hesperantha and gaura, shuffling out-of-place cistus and lobelia. Then, to add insult to injury, I was expected to partake in freshly baked tea loaf smothered in creamy butter. To be honest, if there was a medal for bravery in the face of great horticultural adversity, I deserve one.
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Off The Edge Gardening 
I dub thee Brave Garden Gossiper and bequeath you a Golden Marigold.
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I am greatly honoured! Thank you 🙂
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What horrors one has to contend with as a gardener!
Love that you took a day to recover from your ‘holiday’!
Any spare aubergine hollyhock seeds would be warmly welcomed up here! Delivery in person at the Spring Show quite acceptable.
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Got plenty to share, I will put them in a pack with your name on it 🙂
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Yay!
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“. . .freshly baked tea loaf smothered in creamy butter”–that sounds like adversity, indeed.
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I am sure you are weeping for me 🙂
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