Tag: spring
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Flowers – and how to preserve them
Spring has Sprung in the South of the world, and in my little slice the daffies, crocus, hellebores and camellias are flowering. So, what better way to preserve these lovelies than suffocating them in silica sand for 7 days and drowning them in resin (to use in my art). Here’s a camellia that has just…
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‘Neath the Bed
I went a little mad today, and vacuumed ‘neath the bed, it’s not my normal housework style, to clean what can’t be seen, i’m more a fan of neat and tidy, and a quick superficial clean. but I’d bought a brand new vacuum, – so I had to try it out – it’s an upright,…
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Oh, Damn it all
Apologies to “Danny Boy” but the tune caught in my thoughts, and so the rhythm of the rhyme mimics the song , of a sort. Oh, damn it all, the grass, the grass is calling, from fence to fence, and down the driveway too, it’s growing fast, my garden’s disappearing, into a jungle green, of lush,…
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I had Plans …..
Yesterday was such a lovely Spring day that I foolishly made Plans for today. I was going to get out in the garden, plant plants, mow the lawn, spray the weeds (I even stopped and bought a backpack sprayer on the way home yesterday). However, my Plans are not to be, as a fine misty drizzle…
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Spring has Sprung
Oh, Spring has sprung, the sun does shine, but I’m stuck inside, and doing time. I’ve got “the bug”, in throat and head, and backache’s forced me out of bed. I long to sit out in the sun, looking at it’s not enough, but I know that if I move, I’ll stir up this hacking…
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