We found the most attractive little garden centre today. Not far away. Just at the bottom of the main Cilfrew road and turn right for a few yards in the direction of Cadoxton. Take a left under the railway arch and it’s like entering a magic place.
They had all the vegetable plants I wanted, and also all the shrubs, trees and perennials we’ve been discussing for the garden proper.
I was thrilled to learn of the old guy who owns and runs the place that I am two or three weeks too early to be planting seedlings out just now and that I ought to come back when the time is right rather than try to nurse them on the window sills. I think he’s going to try to make me grow cabbage but otherwise his advice was right on the line.
Isn’t it good to get unbiased advice when you’re starting up in a new field!
When I go back I shall ask him if I can take some pictures. You have to be so careful with cameras these days.
Then, home, lunch, and a nap. I’m getting through my insomniac period now, and things are much better. Even so, I’m more than ready for my afternoon nap still, and some days find me wilting in the late morning, in need of twenty minutes power nap before I can proceed.
Hey ho.
A dearly loved man died today and the two of us were greatly saddened by it. One of Britain’s funniest and most erudite of men, Sir Clement Freud has had us in fits of giggles while listening to Just a Minute so many times it doesn’t seem right that he has been switched off. Ah well. He was 84, almost 85, and died while sitting at his desk. That seems appropriate in a time when almost nothing else does.
And, finally, we finished the last disc of our complete set of Stargate SG-1 two nights back, followed by the second of the two direct to DVD movies last night. We have the complete set of Atlantis series 1 to 5 on order but there’s going to be an interval of a few days before it arrives. Our evenings are going to seem strange until we get going on the new set. We could watch something else, of course–our DVD collection is pretty large–but somehow the Stargate team have made us part of the family and we’re not keen to desert them.
And that wraps it all up for another day. It’s been fine, in its own way.
