In this life
Thursday, April 03, 2025
Moving on...
Saturday, March 29, 2025
Variety
Ah, spring, lovely spring. The garden is very daffodilly.
And a bit tulipy.
Friday, March 21, 2025
Monday, March 17, 2025
Lottery
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Time flies like an arrow...
Thursday, March 06, 2025
Spring
Spring is a-cumin in and Littlest Granddaughter can play in the park after school.
The great excitement in her life is that she's now got two guinea pigs. She's thrilled! I hope they live long lives...
Daughter 1's garden wall fell down during Storm Eowyn (well, it was pushed over by a blown-down buddleia in between it and the fence next door) and today Darren the Patio came and sorted this out.
It's now all fixed and much smarter, with a smaller wall which can be weeded behind, and slabs for putting pots of flowers on, maybe?
My friend Janet wanted a fish tank with fish in it, but her family persuaded her that it would be a lot of work, so she got her friends and family to colour in a fish each and she's mounted these. I sent the daughters a photo of the finished "tank", and asked which one they thought I'd done, and within something like 20 seconds, Daughter 2 had screenshotted (is this a word?) the correct one and sent it back to me. How well she knows me! I wasn't surprised at the correctness of the answer, though the speed did surprise me somewhat. (It's the lower middle one with a yellow face, blue body and stripy fins. It's a bit pale compared to some of the others.)
Crocuses and daffodils splashing their colour in the garden. Gosh, a garden - or at least, mine - is a lot of work at this time of year.
These come up by themselves, but I've been slaving away cutting down last year's herbaceous perennials and waging war on bitter cress and that little willow herb with surprisingly long roots. Still, it's all worth it. I do love flowers.
Friday, February 28, 2025
Offspring and snowdrops
Son and family came down at the weekend when Daughter 2 and Littlest Granddaughter were here, and Daughter 1 and family came over too, which was nice. Here are quite a lot of them playing with Lego. The person in blue, sitting on the sofa and bending over, is Big Grandson (13). He is currently rather long-haired. However, he does have beautifully thick hair and is still a lovely boy, though I would prefer that his hair didn't get any longer.
We also played hide-and-seek in the garden. Here is Small Grandson, hiding (not entirely successfully) on a bench.
But now, sadly, Daughter 2 and Littlest Granddaughter are back in London, getting trains.
So Mr Life and I went to an exhibition. I like this painting by James McIntosh Patrick (1907-1998). It's of Stobo Kirk in the Borders. The light and the shadows and the roof shapes are very pleasing.
Coincidentally, Mr L and I were down near Stobo yesterday, to visit Dawyck Botanic Gardens and to wander among its snowdrops.
We did this last year too, and I probably took exactly the same photos then.
There are millions of them. Well, I didn't count them. But certainly tens, if not hundreds, of thousands.
It was very lovely. Isn't spring just wonderful?