Things you can do when you're retired

When you're retired, you can drive with your daughter and grandson to a garden centre and have coffee. Then you can look at all the stuff you don't want to buy, such as this big bird puppet thing, which your daughter can make squeak. You can take a photo of your grandson laughing at it. You resist actually buying the bird or any of the other stuff because if there's one thing we're not short of now that my mum's possessions have to be dispersed, it's stuff.
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I didn't quite so successfully resist buying some night-scented stock seeds and some echinachea seeds. I love cone flowers but they die over winter in my garden so I'm not going to buy any more as plants - they're expensive. Let's see if I can get some to come from seed. And summer isn't summer without night-scented stock: that lovely perfume drifting across the garden as we sit under the moonlight in the balmy Scottish summer air. Or as the wind whips across the lawn... .
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I may also have bought a couple of iris rhizomes, one blue and yellow and one pink and dark pink. Irises grow quite well for me. Must be the dry climate and baking sun.
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