Summer gardening
Mary Roses
Summer in my lovely garden - yeay! Gardening, listening to the cricket... And Non-Gardening Partner on holiday - even better. I'm sure I can fill up his days with garden related tasks.
December 26th
Have done some wonderful Boxing Day gardening. Continued my clean up underneath the glass-house. The wind was blowing fiercely, so it was externally unpleasant. But I was in a lovely gardening bubble, making good progress while listening to the cricket (the Ashes) on my wee radio. Go Australia!
Struggling...
Then I moved to the Herb Spiral and - first things first - cleared the woodshed path of Alkanet (my old favourite), Orlaya which had flowered, and lots of cheery yellow dandelions. Australia struggled to bat on the 'spiteful' MCG pitch. Dug the first of my potatoes, came inside. England struggled to bat. Hmm. It's fast becoming another ridiculously low scoring test match.
Listening to the Cricket
Saturday 27th December
In the morning I went swimming and Op Shopping with my friends. Back home, tried on my new flouncy apres-gardening blouse, sat outside to listen to the cricket. But apres-gardening clothes are for afterwards, right?
So I changed into grubby gardening clothes and continued my clean up beneath the glass-house. Almost immediately blobby rain started to fall. Ignored it. Then thunder boomed, almost overhead. I refuse to garden in thunder. Pity - things were going rather well. And now it's pouring with rain. OK. Not a problem. Will play some Brahms.
Summer Brahms
My summer holidays idea (AKA challenge) is to play ninety percent of the notes of every solo piano piece that Brahms ever wrote. Brahms and weeding on the same day give my fingers a bit of a hard time, but never mind.
A bit later...
The rain sort of blew away, so I went back into the garden below the glass-house. It's now cleared enough to spread compost and buy in some more roses. I'm thinking of The Active and Ghislaine de Feligonde, two robust large shrubs whose flower colours will complement each other (and Jacquenetta, who will be growing nearby).
In the early evening the Ashes cricket match petered out in a disappointing fashion. Put it this way - it was not worth looking forward to. Oh well.