I’ve been tied up with all manner of “stuff” of late and somehow March has slipped through my fingers. A catch up is well overdue and a combination of truly miserable weather and the blissful peace of an empty house (I have been largely deserted for various holidays, meetings, lectures and what have you) meansContinue reading “Mad March”
Monthly Archives: March 2024
Mud wrestling
The speck of sun at the beginning of the month led to an ambitious order of bare root roses in the sale. Needless to say, immediately after the despatch notification pinged onto my phone the weather closed in and returned to unremittingly dreich. Thankfully, a commitment in Edinburgh delayed the inevitable for a day. ForContinue reading “Mud wrestling”
CARPE DIEM
Today I confronted mortality at close range. I had positively creaked out of bed with every muscle thrumming most unpleasantly, the inexorable after effect of two days of compost barrowing. Thinking that a few gentle pilates stretches would likely do the business I did the hamstring thing and limbered up to see if there wasContinue reading “CARPE DIEM”