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Wednesday, September 27, 2006

The Gardening day! Long awaited update

Ok sorry for the wait. Got alot of things to add to this blog. I am new to blogging so daily updates are not the thing I think about. Life is a bigger struggle than any person could imagen. Well lets me blog about yesterday. It started of ok wakeing up and having my useual bowl of malted shreddies (cereal) with warm milk so they go all mushy and yummy. Then it was checking the morning emails, yes you guessed it I had a inbox full of spam. After sorting out the spam from the credible email it was time for a shower and wash. Had a few jobs to do before dinner so they where completed.

Dinner. YUMMY! It was basically a ham sandwich and some onion and cucumber that was or has been soaking in vinigar. Its been there for say 5 days and is oozing with vinegary goodness.
Well I slapped some of this stuff on the Buttie ( Sandwich) and comsumed with great delight. Until I had the last mouth full then gee it was all gone! And we had no more ham left. Ok time to get ready to do some digging!

Ok walked out the door and put my boots on. Checked first to see if any spiders or snails in them as the where stored in the greenhouse and that is open to anything creeping in. Trust me I have had snails in my boots bigger than anything. It was lucky my toe recognised the density and feel of a snail shell because I would of had a very slimey toe. And a poor snale would of been dead. Anyhow no creepys or slimey slugs or sensible slugs (snails) got into my boots. Wasnt that interesting! OK

With boots ordained to me feet and a good will in my heart I set out to conqoure the imposibble. Yes COUCH blooming Grass It is there and it needs getting out. Its like a splinter in your finger its painfull and you cannot wait to dig it out!

Whilst I was doing this relentlas I mean relentlas as I haven been on the plot along time and stil getting the same old weeds (OK I know you are thinking you will if you leave some in! Why do you leave some weeds in? Its a human thing to admire and to reward. If not human it should be!) . OK digging away and nothing to really tax ones mind apart from the ever ecuring white strands of couch grass roots that had to come out! A streach of the back reveild a lovely formation of ducks flying from the pond that must be quite near to my site. (This was not the end)

Ok feeling good seeing the ducks as I am a bit of a twitcher (Birdwatcher). Kept on the digging, rescueing baby toads from the horrors of the loomomg spade and repatreating them in the brooke that was close by. I carried on digging then you would not belive but a pare of what I can only Identify with at this present is a pair of harriers flew over. They where of a certain raptor and they where not sparrow hawk. I found this to be most interesting.

Other than seeing dragonflies at the end of September and the Harriers I cannot say anything wrong with yesterday. Most Enlightening.

The_Snail