Yeay for cloud cover!
Aha! It's OK in theory to celebrate the summer sun, but yeay for cloud-cover! I must garden while there is cloud-cover. Very much more pleasant in summer than the glaring sun.
Saturday 18th January
I must, must, must finish clearing the Herb Spiral Garden. If I don't there will be serious consequences. I will have to spend a morning doing housework!
Shasta Daisies
So for the next two hours the sun came out, then the cloud came over, then the sun came out again, and so on, and so on. This all resulted in a semi-hot-and-bothered gardener, and an semi-finished Herb Spiral Garden. I did my best.
Sunday 19th January
This morning I started work on this year's arrangements for my Jazz choir. After two hours my poor head was buzzing with music - repeat this chorus? Change key? Write a scat section? How about something fugal? Time to go gardening.
The Herb Spiral
I finished the Herb Spiral Garden (could hear it sighing with happiness, as the weight of mess was lifted, collected, and dumped. Looking at the photograph, it isn't nearly colourful enough. Hmm. Needs some pansies and marigolds, perhaps? Then for something completely different - I trundled over to the Frisbee Lawn. Started by the big blobby conifer, worked my way up towards the dog kennels. Lots and lots and lots and lots (you get the idea) of Euphorbia to trim and gum leaves to rake up.
New Phormium
Impressive?
Three barrowfuls of mess uplifted. NGP arrived to see what I was doing. One word from him - 'impressive'. Yeay!
For my apres-gardening enjoyment I have a 'new' jigsaw. Eek! Another stinker - a huge castle in Germany called Neuschwanstein, with squillions of windows, swathes of grey sky above and swathes of red leafed trees below. It will take me weeks!
Am still waiting for my dog and cat shirts which I ordered online. One day they will arrive, and then I will be so happy. I am hopeful they will arrive any day...