Things to please

[callmemadam]

I bought this cyclamen (https://callmemadam.livejournal.com/666410.html) in a sale at the garden centre just after last Christmas. They had it outside but under cover, so I wasn’t sure if it should grow indoors or outside. To be on the safe side, I put it on the same cool windowsill where I grow orchids. To my delight, after being watered carefully during the year, it’s flowering again, as you see.

Yesterday afternoon, we had one of the wildest spells of weather I’ve ever experienced. First, it was black as night. Then the wind started whipping trees and shrubs about and then, whoosh! In the space of about five minutes a deluge turned the road into a fast-running stream, there was a huge puddle at the base of the drive and standing water on part of the garden where this sometimes happens. Within half an hour the sun was out and everything calm again. While peering out of one of my kitchen windows to see the damage I noticed that a white cyclamen is also flowering in the garden, but it's the type where the flowers appear before the leaves.

I’ve already been round the garden picking up chunks of oak tree which had come down and no sooner had I got indoors, than it began raining out of a sunny sky. So bizarre. I did say ‘things’, plural, to please. The cyclamen are two. Another is that I’m now eating my own tomatoes and have a fine crop of peppers on the way.

Comments

[gwendraith]

There you are! I was wondering where you were and if you were okay. The cyclamen is lovely and it's done well in your care. I'm very fond of them myself.

The weather has been a bit rough hasn't it. I stayed indoors during the worst of it on Tuesday, Wednesday was glorious and yesterday was a mixture. It's rather dull today with showers.

Yum, homegrown toms always taste that bit better than shop bought ones :)

[callmemadam]

That's nice of you; I've just been rather down, which makes flowers even more important to me.

Nothing beats picking those tomatoes and eating them still sun-warmed with your lunch! You're right, there's no comparison with the flavour of a shop-bought one.

[gwendraith]

I'm sorry to hear you've felt a bit down. Life can be a hard going in many ways, especially during the past few months with things changing for the better so slowly. Is your village putting on any events at all? Take pleasures where you can - flowers and home grown produce :) Feel better soon and take care dear, B. x

[callmemadam]

Thank you! Nothing happening anywhere, really. Pleasure in small things is the ticket.