Sunday, August 12, 2012

Why I still hate August!

This was a flower bed, a sea of green with a Japonica that I have been nurturing. I cleared it a little last Friday as it had got terribly overgrown but I left it green, on Sunday morning it looked like this. Who did it? Why did they do it? Why is the toadstool still smiling? I wasn't!  I kept my spare keys under the toadstool but fortunately I moved them, knowing that people come up here in August. The Toadstool had been well hidden, under a bramble that a neighbour admitted to poisoning for me! She denies doing the rest of the damage but someone has. Toadstool can go now.

Life isn't all bad, even in August. We had the village BBQ last night, apparently this used to be an annual event but it stopped, now it has been revived. There were 150 people, not bad for a village that only has about 25 inhabitants in winter.


I had my first tomatoes yesterday, 2 very small ones but it was a beginning, none today though :(
My vegetable patch looks full, mostly because of the 'courgette' but other things are doing well too. I will have loads of tomatoes eventually but they are much later this year. We have just had a very hot week, I thought it would have a positive effect but it hasn't done much. Once I gt a regular supply of tomatoes I will pull up the courgette as I have plenty in the freezer already and it is attacking everything else.

 There have been loads more birds this year. The House Martins have started their morning parliaments, those back 2 wires could not have fitted another bird on, there were well over 200. it's incredible how they all know to come at the same time because most of the day there is no sign of them, they meet for about half an hour and then disperse.

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