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Simply..a gentle month....

5/6/2023

..by which I don't mean just lying in the hammock, though I plan to do a fair bit of that!

Some periods of lightness and ease (a phrase I still remember from reading The Ya-Ya Sisterhood decades ago).

In order to try and get that, at leasst some of thime I will take care not to commit to too many things this month, to leave room for some spontaneity.

I may skip the news altogether. If there is something I need to know it will find me.

I will try not to exhaust myself gardening as I did yesterday.

Light hearted books and beautiful music are not hard to achieve. I have just listened to Bill Paterson's Tales From The Back Green (a world I recognise) which made me laugh out loud, and walking round the garden early yesterday morning listening to a Beethoven cello sonata really loud on my headphones was absolutely thrilling.

Both wondrous and joyful. I may have danced a few steps...

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Simply..what do you want?

4/6/2023

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What do you want the month of June in the year 2023 to be like for you?

Sometimes lovely things happen to us, but sometimes, I believe we have to nake them happpen and the first step is probably to know what it is you want!

Would you like your June to be exciting? Or sociable or preoductive. Perhaps you would likfe it to be relaxing and you long to have some time alone, some time to think. Or you may seek adventure, or determine to finally do something you have been thinking about for a long time. How about getting pen and paper and a nice drink and sitting down for 15 or 20 minutes to imagine what your ideal June 2023 would look like? Then you can ponder how you could make at least some of it happen at least some of the time..

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Simply..woke early....

3/6/2023

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..and before I had as much as washed my face I was out in the garden sunshine with the first cup of coffee.

The pretty nemesias smell of Parma violets.

Erigeron karvinskianus which will soon be sprinkling down the steps.

I have a nunber of neglected acers in pots which I am now rescuing - repotting, pruning and keeping moist in a shady place until they are fit to go into the garden.

On the way stopping to smell the vanilla sugar scented clematis 'Elizabeth' which grows on the shed.

Then I set up the work

and the rest!

And it was still early. I felt I had stolen a march on the day!

Everything seems easier when the sun is shining.

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Simply..in the pink....

2/6/2023

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Painting the cames pink to go with sweet pea 'Gwendoline'.

The black pots are planted with sweet peas, nicotiana, petunias, bacopa, lobelia and Mexican daisies - all pastel shades this year. I love to try something different each year in these pots.