I should have planted more bulbs; I should have collected more of the fallen leaves; I should have turned the compost but I didn't. Does it matter? Will anyone complain? No!
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| Ice white Cyclamen and Frozen Ivy ........ |
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| ............. Cold Roses ......... |
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According to Sarah Raven my Hydrangea flowers should have been picked in October, dried, painted and hung off the mantlepiece. The roses should be part of a pot pourri by now and my Christmas cake should be swimming in brandy. Well, tick the last one!
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What do you paint the hydrangeas with? I thought you just dried them but they are terrible dust collectors so you are better off not having done them - honest.
ReplyDeleteI spent last month with a list of things to do, now I have shrugged my shoulders and torn up the list. Start again in the spring - quite liberating really
Thanks for joining in again this month
That's the problem with time - it does march on.
ReplyDeleteGreat squirrel pic. When I was taking a walk the other day I could hear one making that funny coughing noise and flicking his tail at me, trying to warn me off - almost saying - this is my tree don't you dare climb it - as if!
ReplyDeleteTime goes on and our to do list is always too long. But sometimes in winter we have to stop especially with hard frost and that's the time to stay inside and read a lot of books in front of the fire. Lovely pictures of the grey squirrel and frosted roses.
ReplyDeleteI think your attitude to the To Do list is very admirable and I applaud it :-)
ReplyDeleteI think the fact that the garden has closed down for the winter should encourage us to do the same.
I see your squirrel has the same single minded focus in its gaze as my squirrel visitors. I wish I had a quarter of the concentration it employs in attacking my bird feeders.
Great pictures. love the stone bird bath. Gardenings on hold for the past 2 weeks, everything is still too wet.
ReplyDeleteI never get it all done but it is all good by spring.
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