A Gardener’s Gospel – Week 9
I’m feeling much better this week after a dose of penicillin. If I’d known that dodgy loaf in the bread bin could have helped my middle ear infection, I would have eaten it weeks ago. Although I’m feeling better, I still haven’t had a chance to get into the garden. Yesterday I took my daughter away for a day trip and today it’s raining. We’re also going to church in an hour, but if it’s clear when I come back I may plant out some pansies. I’ll let you know how it goes.
Continue reading ‘Birds of a Feather’
A Gardener’s Gospel – Week 8
Checking out the Neighbours
When I first announced I was going to write a weekly blog on my garden, my husband of 13 years warned me that I would never be able to keep it up. Don’t commit yourself to 52 weeks, he said, you might have to miss some. Of course, he was right. I’m now in my third week of a middle ear infection – left over from a nasty bout of flu. I’m almost constantly dizzy and struggle to spend any length of time reading, writing, or sitting in front of the computer. In the garden, it helps to be able to see straight too; at the moment I can’t tell the difference between a pansy and a petunia and I don’t have the strength to drag out the lawnmower. Woe is me. So for the last couple of weeks I have contented myself to look at my garden from the bedroom window, with the bonus of being able to check out the neighbours’ plots too. Continue reading ‘Tall Poppy Syndrome’
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