Good morning Mick and all GN's on a slightly breezy greyish morning but now with a hint of sunshine here in North Yorkshire.. Another absolute rubbish night, with my back and knees giving me hell. So bad I did take painkillers but wonder if someone forgot to put the painkilling ingredients in, didnt seem to make much difference!! Well at least it meant that I was up early and glad for the night to be over.
I am slowly getting stuff together to escape to Bridlington, or rather Bempton to see a lovely garden that I have visited before. Some people say to me why do you go back when you have seen it before. They are obviously not gardeners! Even if I went to the same garden at the same time of the year there would be differences. The changeable weather means that it can by further on or back from last time, and I enjoy seeing how it has progressed from the previous year. I am very good at recognising faces, but not names. In the same way I have a sort of photographic memory when it comes to gardens. sometimes I surprise owners and ask , Did you move the acer from here, or has your trillium finished flowering. The layout of the garden is sort of imprinted in my memory and an owner may say oh yes we moved the acer, but often they will say Oh i forgot that trillium was there, Havent seen it this year etc, and can be surprised that I have remembered it from a year or two ago.
So once I can actually get in the car and go, I will be in less pain and am anticipating a lovely run over the wolds, a great visit to the garden and then if my back allows it may go down to Whitby as it is regatta weekend. So fingers crossed for a decent day. At the worst it will be just the garden.
Have you noticed how it is always nothing happeniing on a weekend you have free and then another weekend you wish you could split yourself in two or three to go to several things at once? The little village I go to play whist at has a Beanbook sale once a year. and as a mad book hoarder it is of course something I usually go to, add my contribution to their sales and of course buy more books from them so my own library never gets any smaller. I love it for the chase for that new book you find and that old book by a favourite author you discover. Well the lady who runs it sent me an email as I know she values me as a big customer but I also pass on reminders to the womens group and anyone else I know. But sadly today I wont be able to go. Ah me it is all or nothing isnt it? And there is another country show on today as well.
Yesterday Jessy did not come as she wasnt well, so had to struggle to get the bed made etc etc., but there were various things dropped on the kitchen floor, that I had bargained on her picking up for me, and they will have to stay there still as cant bend down to them. Very annoying, and frustrating. One of my favourite fruit knives is underfoot and my grabber wont pick it up etc. I need to sort my picnic out and gather all my coffee paraphynalia together for today, but first will have to empty the boot!!
Went to Strikes , a local garden centre, and must have just arrived at the right time, as of course I go round the "sick bay" where there are plants at a much reduced price that need care and attention, but if you are a reasonable gardener, you can suss out those plants that can be brought back to life and those that arent worth the effort. So did well and came back with two different loniceras - honeysuckles, some dianthus , a couple of dahlias etc. So they are all languashing in the boot. I will get them all out and just put them together and water them well and let them revive a bit while I am out today. Of course as my back is so rotten today, I wish I had done this last night , but never mind a grand bargain buy is worth a bit of pain.
So once I am ready and off, need to just check the fuel will be enough for todays journey, put radio three on, make sure that I have got the Yorkshire Post on the way and I shall be ready to face the day, and whatever it brings. i shall be leaving the mess here with not a care in the world (until I come back and step on the knife again!)
Hope you have a pleasant trip to Bicester and meet lots of friends and enjoy your chinese later Wish I was nearer you grandMattie would love to see all the balloons. Hope they get the best weather for a lovely sky full of balloons. Hope they show it on the tv later on Bora Da JamesandJon, but in a north welsh accent!! Giope your garden plans work out. If the weather is warm I would leave the furniture moving for another day and sit with a drink contemplating your garden.
whatever you all do today may it be a good day , of a job done to your own satisfaction or a chance to meet family or friends. Enjoy your day
