However many hours I garden right now, they are never enough! Each day at the moment is spent in the garden, with a bit of decorating in the guest room, a short walk, and bits of housework. Today it was he grocery shop too. I was quite tempted to go and explore Merthyr Tydfil but there is so much to do here, I decided to just go to Llandod as normal.
I had a Night Out last night, when some friends asked if I wanted to go to the cinema to see "Six". I said yes, thinking that it was a film about Henry VIII, but it turned out it was a Musical! I live a sheltered life here and hadn't heard of it but apparently it has been touring internationally. Anyway, the girls who represented Henry's wives were brilliant singers although their costumes were a bit like Snow White meets the Queens from a game of Solitaire. . . Despite my age, I quite enjoyed it but had I known it was a musical aimed mostly at youngsters, I wouldn't have gone. Anyway, the photos are of the Wye after we came out.
I have been making good progress with the garden but there is still SO MUCH to do. I need to try and crack on with removing tussocks of grass before May gets here and everything goes mad with growth.
This is my "path" up to the polytunnel, so I have to clear this too. Did just a little bit yesterday as I was working in that area, clearing grass from around the Rhubarb.
Definitely have one of our Swallows, but not sure that the other two it's flying with aren't House Martins from the stables in the next field. I dearly hope it hasn't lost its mate on the journey back from Africa.
I've been sat for half an hour or so resting my back, and enjoying the sunshine, and reading a new Murder Mystery book - Murder in the New Forest by Carol Cole. So far, very enjoyable, especially as I know the New Forest, having grown up in Southampton, which is half an hour by car.
Time to rest now and so I will depart to the living room.
I may well be going to Spain with Tam, Rosie & Jon in September. His uncle has a house out there and the family regularly go to stay. I just have to see if friend Pam will come and feed the boys for me, and get recommendations for a cattery for the girls to cover the few days we're away.
A trip to Spain with family will be lovely for you. Do you have Facebook, you could ask for cattery recommendations on there. I found a new Vet that way. But we will have a cat sitter who comes twice daily, will feed Madam, pick up post, put bins out and my daughter uses her too. I've sorted out my passionflower which is in an enormous pot, unfurled it all, laid it out draped over garden seats and cut off everything dead. Wound it all back onto its frame and fed with Miracle-Gro, fingers crossed. Xx
ReplyDeleteYes I do. I will ask and get recommendations. My friend Pam will come and o the cats for me, but the girls (or rather Pippi) have to be in well before dark and I don't want Pippi to discover that being Out After Dark is fun! Boys are ok as they've been allowed access to outdoors at night until we moved here - now they can go out, but no cat flap on the inner door into kitchen.
DeleteHope your Passionflower forgives you for a change of scenery.
Well done
You sure keep busy! Somehow I missed previous post--poor Rosie, I hope she is all better now? And I think you made the right decision to put aside the Heritage quilt, it didn't sound fun at all. Lovely fabrics tho.
ReplyDeleteHow fun to go to Spain, lovely end of summer treat. The evening photos in this post are beautiful. Did your new laptop come?
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Yes, Rosie's fine again now but not the least impressed at going back to the Child Minder's this week! The fabrics are lovely in the quilt but the blocks were doing my head in.
DeleteGot the new laptop and hope Tam will set it up tomorrow for me as this space bar not working is driving me mad! I am really looking forward to going to Spain. Glad you liked the evening photos.
I had never heard about that movie, perhaps it is just being shown in the UK. Those photos of Wye at night are lovely.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Caroline said people had been raving about it when it had gone (live) to Oz. We saw it on a video?? link.
DeleteGardening here is at a standstill until the ground can dry out. Weeds and grass are growing rankly with all the rain. Can you believe--a frost predicted for tonight and tomorrow night! It always happens again just as the clematis bud, the earlier cold having shattered the hybrid magnolias. Que sera, sera.
ReplyDeleteI don't want to move any more! Think I need a full time gardener and certainly someone to do the crouching down to paper below the dado rail. So sorry your weather is being so difficult and giving you frosts when you want sunshine. What with the torrential rain too . . .
DeleteI've been "gardening" too, ok, just clearing out my planters!
ReplyDeleteSwop ya!
DeleteA lovely holiday to look forward to.
ReplyDeleteDon't hurt your back gardening
I'' find out from Tam which part of Spain it is, as I've forgotten. Ref. the back - Too Late!
DeleteI like flowers that take care of themselves...food growing is enough work!!
ReplyDeleteA September trip is a good idea....I'm planning one too, but not quite so far South!
Well, the flowers do - it's the blardy GRASS! Enjoy your September trip too.
DeleteI don't miss the expanse of garden and land back in Wales, we drove to Isfryn on Sunday and it reminded me how much easier our gardening life is these days. Your header photo is absolutely beautiful.
ReplyDeleteThe garden will get too much for me as the years go by but for the moment I just need to keep ahead of the growing spurt for grass. The header turned out better than I thought, blown up.
DeleteWhat a beautiful header picture! I swear I would get nothing done at all. I would sit in a day dreamy way taking in the scenery and all that green. *Sigh* Spain sounds like a wonderful thing to look forward to.
ReplyDeleteThis was Ivy Cottage, which Tam desperately wanted to buy. It had a big well stocked (but VERY overgrown and neglected) garden, fab views but sadly had to go to a cash buyer as unmortgageable due to condition inside.
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