Reeling into the wind, staggering along the beachlike ancient mariners tossed onto a distant shore,our progress erratic as storm tossed debris.As dark squalls spin across the horizonheads withdraw, sheltering in gore-tex carapaces.Eyes narrowed by reflected diamond lightsalt stinging tears funnell down furrowed cheeks.Cries of wonder are carried beyond the wind,Lions on the beach!Maroon manes tangled […]
Croft Gardener
Garden of Plenty
There are a series of landmarks in my gardening year and, however intemperate the weather, by late July, the croft vegetable garden has been transformed into a garden of abundance. The empty trugs of the hungry gap months become horns of plenty and we are sated with green comestibles. A pretentious little literary allegory which […]
Paradise regained
Collige, virgo, rosas, dum flos novus et nova pubes, et memor esto aevum sic properare tuum Gather, girl, roses while the flower is fresh and fresh is youth,remembering that your own time is hurrying on. Ausonius (c. 310–395) I’m back. My desk has been restored, my muse has returned from her vacation, the equinox gales […]
Wordless Wednesday – Grass Cutting
En Vacances?
No I’m still here, enjoying the glorious weather on the Hebridean riviera, cosseting our holiday cottage visitors, planting bulbs and seeds, harvesting and preserving enough for a winter of apocalyptic proportions, and masquerading as a domestic goddess. Oh and in my spare time I’m general factotum, galley slave and supplier of tea and cakes. Nothing […]