It is 12.30 pm so no more April fooling -
- where did all those days disappear to since the last time I posted on this blog?
Some of them disappeared in a kind of sleep-walk - there were a couple of 'zero-energy' days when neither of us could summon up the 'oomph' to get more than the absolute minimum done. The weather was cold and bleah, the days were samey and grey... all I felt like doing was eating chocolate and buying stuff on the internet. The cat felt the same way.
Luckily I had just enough strength of mind left to keep both chocolate eating and internet buying within bounds. Although I now have a great list of stuff due to be delivered over the next few days.
The veg plot is well underway now. I would like there to have been more signs of life, but so far I have two sticks of rhubarb and a fine display of tiny salad leaf seedlings. A few peas have emerged, and I am hoping the sun will encourage some more to appear. No sign of spinach, radish, brussel sprouts, spring onions or carrots yet.
Yesterday it was warm enough to sit in the garden and paint;
The cat is drawn using a method I call 'emergent drawing'. I just keep drawing and drawing until a cat emerges from the lines. I stole the description from a method of teaching writing which was popular back in the 1990s, or maybe earlier, called 'emergent writing'; I was a bit sceptical but it seems to work. The child (pre-school, or reception, or early years) starts by just 'pretending' to write - doing wiggly lines to make shopping lists or stories - and over time and with appropriate teaching and encouragement these first 'writings' become letters and words and sentences. Well, that describes my drawing method exactly.
The sunflower seeds are all ding well. But very floppy. I plan to stake them all using the bamboo skewers I discovered when I reorganised the cutlery drawers using these rather clever thingies.
Something about mischief and idle hands. The Devil's workshop? Sorting out the cutlery drawer. Really, at your age.......
ReplyDeleteWe are the same. Vicky says I have COPD because I cant stop gardening. We had 3 lovely days, shirt off weather, but today its dull and 7C, Snow is forecast too. _4 tonight I believe. Fortunately nothing much is growing. The rhubarb is beginning to swell but has not even shown its head. The apricot is in blossom though -oops! Staying home and doing hobbies. Vicky is practicing the piano for at least an hour a day, I am trying to do othe same on the concertina!