Mud, Sweat and Beers

Well, mud and sweat. Two out of three ain't bad. It's been pouring with rain today (Sunday), the only day I've had free this week to do any work in the garden. The garden was parched, though, and I certainly don't begrudge the lawn having a bit of a drink. Will Squidling and I spent a happy half hour in the greenhouse while the rain poured relentlessly outside, pricking out delphiniums, wallflower, gazanias (one or two) and a lone dahlia.














It's a pity that we didn't get some time to continue work on the first of the new flowerbeds. We've been collecting plants from various garden centres to put in it, and I'm worried that some of them are becoming pot bound. Yesterday I went to a plant sale put on by the local horticultural society, and was charmed by the enthusiastic gardeners. I even joined the society, and might try to get to a meeting. We bought about 5 or 6 small perennials and a couple of lovely scented geraniums. Here you can see the pots awaiting planting in the gloom of the rain earlier:














The rain does look lovely on the leaves of a tree poking through from next door.













The sun has now come out, but it is too late, not to mention too muddy, to do any work out there. I might just go out and enjoy it for a while before I start to cook for this evening.













The next SquidBlog will be about a venture into film. Well, sort of. There is a BBC competition to compose a soundtrack to a three minute nature film clip.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newtalent/music/newcomposers/

I realise that I probably have no chance of winning, but it should be an interesting and informative process having a crack at it. I've not attempted any audio/video synching before, and I've been wanting to try some audio visual work.

Hopefully I'll give you a step-by-step review of my progress. Right, I'm off for that beer...