Month: April 2023
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As the sun rises
The daffodils at the top of our new-to-us garden nod towards the dawn of Easter Sunday. We seem to have been imbued with a surplus of joyful moments, this weekend, with more to come. Yesterday I finally sat down and did my hour’s stint on this month’s VisualVerse.org prompt. It had taken rather longer in…
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When the entire garden is open to explore . . .
I could never feel right by embarrassing her, except by relating the tale, but we have never seen a cat in such excited ecstasy before, and when she’s happy, well, she drools. Three months on, and since we’re finally settled in our permanent home, it was time to introduce Kali cat to the garden. As…
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A spot of light gardening
The two specimen plants outside our front door seem to have perished in the heavy December frost. There’s no sign of life, anyway, as this supplementary example, still mouldering in the back garden, evinces. I’ve already removed the floral corpses from their pots, in preparation for new planting. Our delightful morning job, in the bright…
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À la recherche du temps perdu
So we are unpacking at a steady rate. When you’re packing up to move, things start out well, and then, in my recent experience anyway, things deteriorate into a frenzy of desperation: gots to clear the place; put everything in a box for the movers to shift! The joy arrives with the unpacking. In a…
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The enchanted temperate rainforest
In the midst of moving-in frenzy, getting things sorted, arranging so many things in a bid to be comfortable in our new home, we were able to take a short amble around the lovely woods next door. Thanks to David Attenborough’s Wild Isles program, we now understand that much of the east coast of the…
Roads to Joy 