nearly April

[pensnest]

Srping is definitely springing. There are daffodils everywhere, including my garden, even though I'd swear I regularly rootle through the ground and remove all the bulbs I find, as every year at some point in May I decide I don't want daffodils any more. (A mistake.) There are hyacinths, too, and a few small yellow daisy-like flowers which I may possibly have planted, or which may be weeds. But they are cheerful, and I'm lazy, so I expect they get to stay. The magnolia is covered in buds. And the aquilegias are bushing up, and the geraniums, everything is starting to grow. Unfortunately this includes weeds.

Much progress has been made in bathroom, there are smart white tiles on one wall, and no ugly beige ones on the other, and an installed loo (*much* cursing and grunting!). Also, mysterious but necessary things have been done in loft. Plumbers are now gone for the weekend.

And I had a phone call this morning reminding me that I'm doing a craft demo/practical for a ladies' group next Monday evening. Oops. Had forgotten. But there is bound to be sufficient material, in the chaos that is my conservatory, to enable me to do something interesting.

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[turloughishere.livejournal.com]

I read about your garden and wished that I could have a garden too, and then I reached this sentence: "Unfortunately this includes weeds." and remembered why I'm glad I don't actually have one :-)

[pensnest]

It's quite a big garden, too, and there's an area at the bottom where... I may need napalm, or something.

It is a lovesome thing, God wot.

[turloughishere.livejournal.com]

It is a lovesome thing, God wot.

Dorothy Sayers! But I suspect the quote is actually from some much older source, right?

[pensnest]

You and I really must have been separated at birth, you know! Yep, I was thinking of Harriet in her stout brogues, but I'm sure she, being much more erudite, was quoting someone else. Possibly an Elizabethan poet?

[turloughishere.livejournal.com]

You and I really must have been separated at birth, you know!

I'm beginning to think so too! I wish I could afford to come visit this Easter but as it is it's a good thing I'm not going. I might be moving to a different part of Sweden this autumn or next spring!! My sister and her husband has been talking about moving for several years and I've always said that in that case I'm moving too. And it has suddenly become reality and they will probably move in August or September. (If nothing happens of course - he's got an offer for a job with a different branch of the company he works for and it's not 100% settled yet.) And while moving is going to be fun it will also be expensive!

Harriet in her stout brogues

In her stout brogues scraping off the mud I think? In Busman's Honeymoon? Or do I mix it up with the time in Gaudy Night when they visited the Covered Market and bought flowers for the Dean? I love all Sayers' Lord Peter books with an unholy passion!

Possibly an Elizabethan poet?


It definitely sounds Elizabethan to me, but my ear for the nuances of the English language isn't the best, being a furriner and all :-)

[pensnest]

Ah, moving house - lots of good and bad and fun and stress to be had there. I'll keep my fingers crossed that it works out as you want it to.

Busman's Honeymoon, Harriet selecting flowers, and Peter and the cat performing their morning toilet.

Well, turns out my ear for the English language isn't up to much either. Not Elizabethan but Victorian. http://www.bartleby.com/101/793.html

[turloughishere.livejournal.com]

Ah well, but perhaps it's a pastiche :-)

[pensnest]

Hmm. You never know with the Victorians, do you? I mean, look at Tennyson. (Or, um, don't!)