Alan's Musings
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So we enter Christmas week , the house is quiet, as I decided this year not to put up a tree, but I will put out the many cards I have received and they together with this Christmas Rose, a gift from George and Angie, will bring some festive cheer to The Firs.
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Monday the 4th was a case of Gardening in the rain, the singing part gone. We had almost, if not, a month’s rain in 24hrs. Fields flooded, schools and roads also.
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Where has the year gone? Bring it back - still got plants to place, things to do, places to go.
The song “Let it snow, Let it snow, Let it snow”. Is to close to the weather. Devon which is only 20 miles away have had SNOW. Well, they can keep it.
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Today, after some typical November weather, the sun popped out for a short while and the garden lit up with Autumn glory. The colours at this time of the year are so vivid and sharp - the hues of red and gold - I feel these words from the song Autumn; “When the Autumn weather turns the leaves to flame One hasn't got time for the waiting game”.
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A day of sunshine and showers. I sat for some time in the morning room watching the large billowy clouds drift up from the SW like enormous cream puffs whilst the western sky grew dark with surety of more rain.
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Autumn has really settled in - rain heavy at times, then sun and back to rain again. It’s not as if we needed it, but every butt is full. Yesterday we purchased a cattle trough to collect all the rain from the front of the greenhouse. P and I looked at it this am and its already half filled.
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As I write this, there is a blue sky and sun. Something we have missed over these last few days. Whilst we have had a good deal of rain, not so much as the NE and Scotland it’s really good to see that Autumn sun again.
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The year has turned and we are in the grip of gales and rain, yet there is still some warmth in the air and when we do see the sun, it’s a pleasure to sit out for a while.
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There is a song with the words “ I can’t help but wonder about these last days of summer”. Today is the last day of summer! So the weather man says, well SUMMER where for art thou! From those hot heady days of June, summer has not or may be it is a coming in, it’s just a bit late.
I once again have spent the last of July and the best part of August viewing the world from a hospital, bed but am pleased to say I am back home and surrounded by catalogues from bulb and plant companies, the best of which I find is Parkers for variety and price.
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One of the plants/flowers we grow and which I like very much are the Double Hollyhocks. I had never come across these until last year, which I know is strange for they have been around for sometime, the garden is not yet two years old but is beginning to show a maturity which In am pleased with as I feared it would take much longer.
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Oh dear! “Once popular in the hippie era of the 1960s, morning glory seeds as a hallucinogen seem to have sprouted again. Local gardening shops have noticed their seed stocks depleted by adolescent hands, and poison-control centres in the District of Columbia and its suburbs have received calls from hospitals with patients experiencing bad trips from the seeds.”