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Leaving Home

Tomorrow my next door neighbour’s daughter is leaving for university. She is a lovely lass and I am sure she will do well. We caught the train from St Ives to London, me and my Dad, and stayed overnight with my Aunty Joy. In the morning we drove down to Kent in her purple mini. Continue reading “Leaving Home”

Six on Saturday – I’m Back

After a couple of weeks absent from Six on Saturday-ing (what do you mean you didn’t notice?), I am back in the loving arms of the SoS family. You might imagine that whilst away I was undertaking exciting and adventurous exploits, about which you would be only half right. Half of the time, not halfContinue reading “Six on Saturday – I’m Back”

Cosmos ‘Dazzler’

Practically perfect.

Rescue

I rescued this bee today. Or perhaps not. She was stumbling drunk through the unmown grass, on a road to nowhere. I picked her up, asking kindly that she did not sting me, and put her on the ginger lily, Hedychium aurantiacum. If I was a bee it is where I would like toContinue reading “Rescue”

Lucky, Lucky, Lucky

Any day that starts with a rainbow has got to be considered lucky. And that wasn’t the last of the omens of good fortune. Next we found a lucky newt, especially lucky for him as he managed to avoid the tines of my fork. Then a mushroom portent, along with a lawn full of puffContinue reading “Lucky, Lucky, Lucky”

Walking

Due to the fact that my Mean Machine is still at the menders, I have had to walk to work for the last couple of days. Luckily these jobs have been relatively local and the sun was shining or I might not have been quite so nonchalent. This morning, on my trek to work, IContinue reading “Walking”

Precis

Ginger lilies, hummingbird hawk moth, Canna ‘Panache’, four lovely cats, chocolate biscuits, ginger rosemary cuttings, Helianthus salicifolius, brugmansia, horti-chat, sunshine, Colocasia ‘Black Magic’, road trip, Passiflora exoniensis, fine folk, school day, Ensete montbeliardii, plant aquisitions, dragonfly, Bidens ‘Hannay’s Lemon Drop’ and friends, fabulous visit – Devon Subtropical Garden.

Survived

We have just returned from the Edinburgh Fringe. We survived. Not the festival, I had every faith we would return tired but relatively unscathed. It was everything I thought it would be and more – crazy crowded, cosmopolitan, chaotic and great fun. We had a wonderful few days with some of my family and didContinue reading “Survived”

Six on Saturday – Anarchy

I’m not very happy with my garden at the moment, and I’m sure the garden would say exactly the same about me. I have once again slipped into a cycle of neglect – no dead heading, no slug watch, no bother. And it shows. Anarchy has ensued. My Six on Saturday this week is aContinue reading “Six on Saturday – Anarchy”

Contrasts

Today’s perpetual rain was a great contrast to the warming sun and frisky breezes of yesterday. I thought another “bee on flower” photo might redress the balance, if only a little.