weeds 9 May 2009
I am going to take it as a compliment that my garden is so weedfriendly. The dandelions in particular are having a wonderful time, as is the ivy (which I think is a total pest) and the brambles. For no apparent reason the brambles on the left hand side don’t fruit whereas those to the right do, so I’ll be hacking back the lefties on the morrow. The sycamore that I let grow in a pot because it had pretty leaves and stem colours went nuts while I was in Devon and has now booked itself in for the summer – I just can’t bring myself to kill or simply chuck it when it looks so healthy and happy. Tomorrow I am going to add a metal angel to the collection of objets on the beautiful garden wall – it’s from Fowey, Cornwall, and will remind me of my recent visit. It’ll be alongside all sorts in terracotta and metal and concrete from all round the world. I love that wall so much that we have left a stretch of it that is now incorporated into the house (courtesy of the build), uncovered, and it’s a most unusual and pretty thing, I think.
No, no sign of the builders today, even though they said they’d be back around 11 to finish off the installation of a sliding door. I’ll be glad to be in London for the finishing of the whole project as I can do without the rising blood pressure that comes with the dillydallying ways of these guys!
The sausages and mash and Fine Wines at Ms Smurfits were a total success and we have lured new people into eating sausages with marmalade – a marriage made in heaven…try it, you KNOW you want to…
