Tag: Just Joey

Can It Be Mid-October?

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The lingering virus from which we have now recovered has really rather reduced gardening for a month. Today, I wandered around on a survey mission, and was pleasantly impressed.

View across grass

The grass could do with cutting, but there is also colour in abundance.

Dahlia

Dahlias we would expect;

chrysanthemums

and chrysanthemums;

Clematis
Clematis

but clematises?;

Rose Just Joey
Rose Margaret Merrill

roses Just Joey, Margaret Merrill,

Rose Penny Lane
Rose Altissimo

Penny Lane, or Altissimo?,

Begonia

begonias?,

Geranium

geraniums,

Fuchsia

and fuchsias in abundance?

Honeysuckle

Not to mention honeysuckle,

Bee and asters

or bees frequenting asters.

This evening we dined on Jackie’s delicious pasta beef arrabiata. Her beverage was Hoegaarden, and mine Santa Julia malbec 2015.

 

A Virus

I am ailing. I am sneezing, I am coughing. I ache. I shiver.

This morning, I dozed over my laptop. Back in bed this afternoon, I vainly attempted to still the words wandering at will across the pages of Rumer Godden’s  (Mr WordPress, Ms Godden may be regarded as a goddess by some, but that is not what I wrote.) ‘China Court’.

Brick path paving

At noon I walked out to admire Aaron’s work on refurbishing the Brick Path. He has nearly completed the task.

Hoverfly on clematis Natacha

After this I photographed a hoverfly on a clematis Natacha in the New Bed,

rose Gloriana

a rose Gloriana, now in bloom,

rose Just Joey

and Just Joey, now fully opened.

Owl

Finally, I imagined I saw an owl in the dead maple. Perhaps I was hallucinating.

This evening Jackie produced delicious pork chops cooked with mustard and almonds; mashed potato; and crisp carrots, green beans and cabbage. I thoroughly enjoyed it, but could only eat a small portion. Cherry crumble and custard was to follow.