Wallflowers looking, and smelling, gorgeous.
After another busy weekend's humping and shifting [oo-er, Missus!], including plants, pots, troughs, clods of earth, and two loads of compost and a big bag of gravel from the shops, the extensive gardens here at Dolores Delargo Towers are progressing nicely - but I am aching like bugger, and in no mood to haul my carcass off to work.
Hey ho - some things are destined to cheer us up, such as the weirdly amusing news that a man in Indiana [where else? This could only happen in the USA] is suing his parents for $87,000 because they threw out his porn collection...
...and, on this Tacky Music Monday, a song-and-dance number from the original pin-up girl [a not-quite-appropriate-link to the above story, but it'll do], Miss Betty Grable!
Have a good week, dear reader.
Stay home! I hope all your hard work is protected from the wind. Gusty here.
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I wish I could stay home, Miss S, but alas work is the "necessary evil" that pays for more plants/holidays/booze.
DeleteNot so windy in Londinium - certainly nothing like last month, when we finally gave up on the pitiful plastic greenhouse as it kept blowing over. It's forecast to be 21C and sunny this weekend, too! Jx
I know, I can't wait!! I went out wearing a scarf and gloves today... by the weekend I should be in a T-shirt!!
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It's about time - we had that unexpectedly warm spell in February, then chilly, chilly, chilly... Jx
DeleteKeep up the good work! I'm getting my garden fix from you as mine is currently a wasteland (well, we have a patio and lawn, now. And I've been digging manure into the concrete-like "soil" so much so that my hands are blistered and rough).
ReplyDeleteStick your rough fingers into something moist, dear.
DeleteAs for the garden - you now have a patio, so get some pots on it! Jx
hermes and fred astair - choreography during the 1930s movies. smooth moves like gene kelly.
ReplyDeleteThings could not - and did not - get better than all that. Jx
DeleteI was in the wildflower garden here this weekend and nostalgic for my former garden, but not for the work.
ReplyDeleteAnd I always think of Betty Grable as wholesome and sweet, not some tough-talking dock whore, but this is the best thing of hers I've ever seen.
Gardening is therapeutic, I find, no matter the amount of work involved.
DeleteAs for Miss Grable as a "dock whore", I think we can all identify with that! Jx
Meanwhile...we're keep having showers. Some of them pretty heavy.And the jungle Che Dinahmow responds as you might expect...
ReplyDeleteBack to the grind...
Sheena, Queen of the Jungle comes to mind... Jx
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