Cutting sweet peas, layering thyme, dividing spider plants and making lego space rockets 🚀🚀🚀
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Hello friends - Plenty of gardening this week, also plenty of swearing. Monday When will I ever learn? my Cobaea seedlings, so perfect and green and delicious have fallen victim to my negligent brain. I put them out last week, to soak up some rays , meaning to put them in a cold frame over night; the beginning of their hardening off process, and instead, I just left them there, on my propagation table, to endure the shock of outdoor nighttime temperatures, without warning. The leaves have turned a sort of papery purple, and growth has basically stopped. it’s the shock. I’m not at all worried - they’ll be utterly fine eventually - it’s only that I like to feel I’ve done everything possible to give something a good start in life, that’s all. I swear a bit as I sweep and put out cushions and pick sweet peas and water. I also pinch out the remainder of my sedums, and I put the hose into the pond, which is becoming more of a bog for lack of rain. I leave it there, while we go off to tramp around the park, with strict instructions that Rotter must switch off hose in twenty minutes’ time. I ought to have known not to attempt this. Rotter is someone not adept at doing more than one thing at a time. When I went on a parenting course they taught me how to turn stuff around, so that one was able to see the upside of every challenging behaviour (child not doing your bidding? We WANT her to question authority; to grow up challenging perceived wisdom…she’s just using you for practice…it’s FINE!) I found this series of lessons very useful for my marriage as well as my parenting, which is why I should say that my Rotter’s ability to focus, entirely and without distraction on one thing is a VERY ADMIRABLE quality. It means that he is able to do really complicated work stuff in the midst of total and complete chaos. This is a very good thing when you are working from home; stuff gets done. the downside of course, is that everything else. EVERYTHING else, (especially someone telling you to switch off a hose) is simply white noise.
Cutting sweet peas, layering thyme, dividing spider plants and making lego space rockets 🚀🚀🚀
Cutting sweet peas, layering thyme, dividing…
Cutting sweet peas, layering thyme, dividing spider plants and making lego space rockets 🚀🚀🚀
Hello friends - Plenty of gardening this week, also plenty of swearing. Monday When will I ever learn? my Cobaea seedlings, so perfect and green and delicious have fallen victim to my negligent brain. I put them out last week, to soak up some rays , meaning to put them in a cold frame over night; the beginning of their hardening off process, and instead, I just left them there, on my propagation table, to endure the shock of outdoor nighttime temperatures, without warning. The leaves have turned a sort of papery purple, and growth has basically stopped. it’s the shock. I’m not at all worried - they’ll be utterly fine eventually - it’s only that I like to feel I’ve done everything possible to give something a good start in life, that’s all. I swear a bit as I sweep and put out cushions and pick sweet peas and water. I also pinch out the remainder of my sedums, and I put the hose into the pond, which is becoming more of a bog for lack of rain. I leave it there, while we go off to tramp around the park, with strict instructions that Rotter must switch off hose in twenty minutes’ time. I ought to have known not to attempt this. Rotter is someone not adept at doing more than one thing at a time. When I went on a parenting course they taught me how to turn stuff around, so that one was able to see the upside of every challenging behaviour (child not doing your bidding? We WANT her to question authority; to grow up challenging perceived wisdom…she’s just using you for practice…it’s FINE!) I found this series of lessons very useful for my marriage as well as my parenting, which is why I should say that my Rotter’s ability to focus, entirely and without distraction on one thing is a VERY ADMIRABLE quality. It means that he is able to do really complicated work stuff in the midst of total and complete chaos. This is a very good thing when you are working from home; stuff gets done. the downside of course, is that everything else. EVERYTHING else, (especially someone telling you to switch off a hose) is simply white noise.