Arthur Little
19th July 2013, 15:51
Invariably ... :anerikke: ... much time and discussion's spent on these two topics. Here they ARE again albeit from a refreshingly different perspective:
Thanks to my wife's natural talents as an 'agriculturist' her "green fingers" have made a TREMENDOUS difference to the appearance of my [now our] garden over the past 4 years (and a bit) since she first set foot on British "soil" in March 2009.
Now don't get me wrong :nono-1-1: ... I'd put one helluv an effort into converting - what amounted to one LARGE rubble heap when my late first wife and myself became the occupants of a brand-new house in *June 1968 - into a nice garden ... one I'd structurally altered many times in the 23 years between *then and the summer of 1991, a few months before she died.
However, for the greater part of 17 years following her death, I found I simply couldn't be bothered tending to the "showpiece" we'd created together. Oh ...:anerikke: ... I continued to cut the grass ... keep the ground generally neat & tidy, etc. But I didn't really add to the existing collection of plants or shrubs.
Anyway, Myrna and I are about to order a ton or two of gravel. So - in spite of the current heatwave - I've spent a good deal of the past week hacking away at the bone-hard earth surrounding the borders of her beautiful flowerbeds with the aid of a pick borrowed from a friend, levelling the ground in preparation.
:yeahthat:'s been MY work! And bloody hard graft it IS too in the blazing :sunshine: for a (more or less) lifelong penpusher rapidly approaching the age of 70!
"Benefits"?? Well ... :anerikke: ... if we've been the envy of the local neighbourhood ever since Myrna's arrival ... we'll soon be even MORE so! :xxgrinning--00xx3:
Thanks to my wife's natural talents as an 'agriculturist' her "green fingers" have made a TREMENDOUS difference to the appearance of my [now our] garden over the past 4 years (and a bit) since she first set foot on British "soil" in March 2009.
Now don't get me wrong :nono-1-1: ... I'd put one helluv an effort into converting - what amounted to one LARGE rubble heap when my late first wife and myself became the occupants of a brand-new house in *June 1968 - into a nice garden ... one I'd structurally altered many times in the 23 years between *then and the summer of 1991, a few months before she died.
However, for the greater part of 17 years following her death, I found I simply couldn't be bothered tending to the "showpiece" we'd created together. Oh ...:anerikke: ... I continued to cut the grass ... keep the ground generally neat & tidy, etc. But I didn't really add to the existing collection of plants or shrubs.
Anyway, Myrna and I are about to order a ton or two of gravel. So - in spite of the current heatwave - I've spent a good deal of the past week hacking away at the bone-hard earth surrounding the borders of her beautiful flowerbeds with the aid of a pick borrowed from a friend, levelling the ground in preparation.
:yeahthat:'s been MY work! And bloody hard graft it IS too in the blazing :sunshine: for a (more or less) lifelong penpusher rapidly approaching the age of 70!
"Benefits"?? Well ... :anerikke: ... if we've been the envy of the local neighbourhood ever since Myrna's arrival ... we'll soon be even MORE so! :xxgrinning--00xx3: