I've been working like a Trojan in the extensive gardens here at Dolores Delargo Towers again today, dear reader. [Admittedly, not as frenetically as that queen above!]
The sunshine beckoned me out of bed well before noon - helped, inevitably, by the combined racket of granny and demon spawn next door trying to out do each other in a shouting contest, and the elephantine child upstairs doing what sounded like a Riverdance impression above my head. So, after my traditional coffee-and-fags breakfast, I embarked upon the major task of potting up not one but two clematis in their hopefully permanent positions (one against the fence/trells and the other up a drainpipe) in big tubs, and on tackling two vast pots of Salvia uglinosa I discovered that, despite first appearances, they had rotted away to so few living runners that I bunged them all in one pot (fingers crossed they'll grow).
All that, and a load of pottering, pruning and potting-on besides, and before I knew it the sun had gone over the yardarm, and it was cider time!
News has reached us today that yet another master of "easy listening" music, Mr Nino Tempo (whose duets with his sister Caroline (stage name April Stevens) were a staple of cosy television variety shows in the 1960s) has departed for the Cocktail Lounge in Fabulon - so let's pay him a fitting tribute with his/their greatest hit, shall we?
Oh, that helped soothe my aching muscles!
It sounds like a swell Saturday.
ReplyDeleteIt certainly was! Exhausting, but rewarding. Jx
DeleteWell done you and the clematis already look fab.
ReplyDeletefab video too. The easiest of easy, bye bye Nino.
The clematis are going to rocket away! I can feel it... Jx
DeleteWell, I'd heard that Mrs Dooms-Paterson had employed a new gardener, but he is not what I'd expected...
ReplyDeleteAnyway, well done in the garden, and yes, fingers crossed for your Salvia! I spent the afternoon up at the allotment tying down a flailing loganberry and digging up spreading nettles.
"Flailing Loganberries" - I'm sure I've seen them on stage! Jx
DeleteI always loved watching his eyebrows when he hit those beautiful high notes. As for the animated gif. Why didn’t I ever have suburban neighbors who looked like that?!?
ReplyDeleteI can't deny, this is the first time I ever saw Mr Tempo's face - but now you've mentioned the eyebrows, I can't "unsee" them! Jx
DeletePS Mr "Boogaloo Lawnmower" would be a great addition to any neighbourhood...
Back in the mid 1960’s you would see Nino and April out at the clubs and mingling with everyone else in Hollywood at Gazzarri’s and the Whiskey à Go Go. Now Nino and April are back together again. :-)
ReplyDeleteBless 'em. Jx
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