Doing A Bit Of Gardening...

Thank you everyone for your thoughts on juicers and blenders...I'll have a look at them when we go back to Lidls on Monday.

In the meantime I've been planting some flowers out...Himself made me a bed using four pieces of wood he'd cut from our discarded telephone pole...Eilis and Mille decided all that lovely compost and muck from the compost heap was the ideal place to bury bits of bone they couldn't manage to eat...

So now I've stuffed the bed with plants...all special offers...you know the sort of thing...four plants for a tenner...buy three and get the fourth free. It's probably a con but I chose the ones I liked with the brightest flowers...

They're not from the little garden centre...these came from the farmers store in town where the staff pretend they can't see a woman waiting by the cash desk...they'd rather sell fertiliser and tins of Round-Up to old farmers who haven't washed in a while and smell of cow.

While digging the holes for the new plants I kept finding those dratted cutworms...fat grubs that nibble through the stems of newly planted seedlings so you look at your row of neat and tidy cabbages and find they've all keeled over in the night...I threw the horrid little beasts onto the gravel then watched as Sparrows picked them up and rammed them down their fledglings throats...

It was sunny and warm at intervals...between the icy cold showers of rain that is, so it was pleasant enough kneeling on a cushion and wondering whether the slugs would be out in force tonight to chomp through the Lemon Yellow Lupin...

I used to go out at night armed with a bucket, the garden trowel and the torch to seek out the slugs and snails...they'd end up tossed in the river at the bottom of the garden but I swear they just heaved a sigh and clambered back out again...

Don't bother now...too knackered by the evening!