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!
