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there are so many questions to answer when you re new fresh and confident are you strong enough can you give me a full breakdown of the pesticides used on these potatoes do you think you can make enough money to pay for the van alone exactly how much money have you made what are the best plants for a bog errm are you spending enough time with the kids can i just press that button once mum and see what happens what a wicked scythe could i wave it around a bit in the garage by myself no will you talk me through a year of caring for this raspberry cane and so on all good fun i am tired by evening though the other night i dropped the boys off at judo and fell fast asleep in the car outside the hall engine off but still wearing my seatbelt i woke up later with a start to find the kids tapping on the window and not one but two policemen staring right at me all chilly and enquiring another question i took the seatbelt off and waved what now for chrissakes just because i m grubby and unconscious doesn t mean i m a lawbreaker or a bad parent now does it i m just multi tasking oh or something like that posted by merry weather at 20 09 21 comments wednesday 25 june 2008 from hilaire belloc lady thinker has passed me a book meme post for fun to choose a book from my shelf and quote a passage from p123 lady t it has taken me ages on and off exploring my page 123 s i could find nothing really interesting on any of them most of the good bits were on the other pages oddly enough what i would have liked to do would be to type out a paragraph from pg wodehouse any one of his p123 s might have been great i m sure i love his writing so finely crafted and so so funny laugh out loud chuckle chuckle stuff unfortunately i have none of his books here at home because my parents have a complete set and i always read them when i stay at their place no realistically i collapse at their place ok so in the absence of pg i found hilaire belloc s cautionary verses for children roosting in one of the kids rooms from about john who lost a fortune by throwing stones as time went on declining health transmogrified this man of wealth and it was excellently clear that uncle bill s demise was near at last his sole idea of fun was sitting snoozling in the sun so once when he would take the air they wheeled him in his patent chair by they i mean his nurse who came from dorchester upon the thame miss charming was the nurse s name to where beside a little wood a long abandoned green house stood and there he sank into a doze of senile and inept repose but not for long his drowsy ease a stone came whizzing through the trees and caught him smartly in the eye he woke with an appalling cry and shrieked in agonising tones oh lord whoever s throwing stones miss charming who was standing near said that was master john i fear go get my ink pot and my quill my blotter and my famous will miss charming flew as though on wings to fetch these necessary things and uncle william ran his pen through well beloved john and then proceeded in the place of same to substitute miss charming s name who now resides in portman square and is accepted everywhere hmm perfect verse i think posted by merry weather at 20 36 12 comments sunday 15 june 2008 a job at last i found this fallen rose last week and thought i d leave it here so many textures shades and such a scent well it s a shame there s no smell feature on blogger i have good news a job at last the landscape gardening company i ve been with spending time with recently on work experience have taken me on full time i am really really pleased this comes in spite of somersaulting spectacularly through a rockery last week whilst uprooting a giant weed i don t know what it was called a kind of hairy rhubarb sort of triffid whatever it was it had very long stubborn roots i m looking forward to much more of this sort of thing with a happy heart and a crash helmet posted by merry weather at 12 01 23 comments thursday 5 june 2008 six random things about me thanks to lovely sandi mcbride for this tag one purple is my favourite colour all shades especially into dark inky blue i like it in clothes it offsets the haggard grey rings under my eyes rather well but i do have to keep reminding myself to be cautious a bold purple kaftan for example looked fabulous in the shop recently but back home morphed scarily into a stylish archbishop s cassock shiver two marc chagall is an artist i love he can have a magical dreamlike quality haphazard naive perhaps hmm i do like his paintings i ve had a picture of this for ever the blue violinist inspiring three anglo saxon is a language i have learnt it has not come in useful at all so far but there s still plenty of time i m optimistic four playing the piano is something i do dreadfully and i mean it s really really awful even my kids are embarrassed still i go for it with enthusiasm five cadbury s chocolate i eat it just adorable six a catholic education yes a character building experience i think i would have been left handed if sister marie therese hadn t made me right handed aged four fear of an angry nun as we all know is a powerful thing this isn t her obviously i have forgiven you of course sm t as a good catholic should well kind of forgiven that s me in 6 daft strokes i won t tag anyone but if you would like it you may have it with pleasure posted by merry weather at 09 29 20 comments monday 19 may 2008 the constant gardener i sometimes have co ordination problems i like being challenged to overcome it though especially in work i have good stamina and a sense of humour i can do multi tasking for instance ok kind of years ago before kids it was essential i worked in the front office of a busy hotel and if you couldn t do three things at once and smile as well you d have queues of irate people building up in person and on the phone i learned fast yet yet the memory of disappearing slowly head first bottom up into the safe while multi tasking there lingers to this day well i was taking a phone call paging someone paying wages and having an urgent silent lip reading conversation with the barman at the time and of course it is always good to see people really laugh out loud isn t it takes the tension out of a crisis i find still that was a long time ago now i continue to work happily as a trainee landscape gardener learning new practical skills in some cases like a duck to water and in others slowly when i find it s like learning to work the clutch in a car downright confusing i try hard i do take last week i m bouncing along in the gardening van wedged in with the rest of the team after several hours spent learning grass strimming i say learning i haven t really mastered it yet in fact at all they are very very careful with power tools and spend a lot of time explaining to me how to use them safely i m really very fortunate with this work experience i expected to be left alone a lot with the boring easy tasks but it s nothing like that i sit still quietly imagining the evening news a reckless woman with horticultural pretensions was arrested on a busy road junction in south croydon this morning armed with a petrol driven strimmer and blinded by protective glasses merry weather took out most of a young tree distressed a lawn and was engaged in damaging a small ornamental fence when apprehended police described her as flushed with embarrassment and dogged in her determination to finish the job properly you re thinking about the tree aren t you forget it really it was nothing they insist and then they swear a bit and grin one of them is a woman small but exceedingly strong and very funny if she was as tall as me she d be invincible i relax then amid grimy gloves and jackets scented with rotting grass feeling relieved it was a question of co ordination a strimmer i feel is basically a small helicopter upside down on the end of a stick and it s incredibly noisy before i set off with it i had spent a lot of time checking around me that no one was nearby and nor were my feet tilt 5 degrees to the left and remember the rotation is anti clockwise they told me sure i can do that copying exactly i set off a quarter of a mile later my right forearm was actually bulging with effort i ve never seen it do that before so i changed hands and was completely bewildered which way now 5 degrees huh cautiously i set off again in a different direction on smaller sections of lawn edging where i produced two effects bald earth to the left and severely quiffed grass to the right i felt a tap on the shoulder another demo ensued watch out for the long grass you can get pulled in said the head gardener and went off round the corner luckily because moments later i d taken out a sturdy sapling and was making inroads on cutting down its tree wow thank god it s a communal garden attached to a block of flats and not someone s private paradise i can imagine the wrath of my auntie margery whose garden is perfect reeling i moved on blushing i showed him later and he frowned a bit and then said that s all right stop worrying later in the day we pull up outside a private garden with an auntie margery kind of owner don t worry we don t strim in small gardens he detaches the head and refits a hedge trimmer oh no i shuffle my feet anxiously looking at her manicured shrubs with fear you just need more practise he says kindly but hands me the hoe instead phew ah well i ll get it eventually even if i ve to practise at home and remove my own lawn in the process it s a beautiful time of year to be outdoors the new blooms are perfect so many different shades my favourites now are the cool blue campanula in springy drooping clumps and the rock roses with their fragile brilliant petals gorgeous posted by merry weather at 17 07 27 comments sunday 4 may 2008 work experience life as a trainee gardener is suiting me very well often rain soaked nails gone to pot sudden outbreaks of ivy rash concrete dust and woodchips inside my bra what the heck i love it i m happy as anything last week i dismantled fourteen sturdy fence panels on my own with a mallet and carried the whole lot out to a skip it took a little time to get the hang of demolition but soon the mallet and i were inseparable partners every whack a winner after a while i heard the head gardener chuckling die die behind me i grinned back next day he asked after my shoulders having a little trouble going forwards actually i said still where s that mallet the owner of the house came out while i was dancing in the skip compressing the panels why are you doing this he said he wasn t talking about the dance thing because i like it because i can i said what i can t do is stay at home thinking about the shopping and the school run anymore and i don t want to be another colleague locked behind a desk behaving well i want to be outside working hard and seeing results i want every day to be a little bit different i could have gone on about the smell of the soil the damp grass the quietness the green shoots the birdsong the hum of the world but that would have made me sound utterly crazy and it was risky enough to be declaiming like this from inside a skip but here s the beauty of it i have nothing to prove no need to defend myself i m just happy being me doing what i do also following a strange exchange with another blogger mr pineapples comment moderation is on for the time being it s a shame although everyone has a right to express an opinion i m not up for abuse i may be nice but i m not stupid this is my place enough said happy spring posted by merry weather at 18 57 39 comments wednesday 23 april 2008 background inspiration many thanks to flick who gave me this desktop tag this is my actual desktop posted with considerable puny technical effort from yours truly involving a lot of face pulling click and umming and erring click it suggests i m concentrating on the bigger picture maybe which is true well at least it is this week when i change the image next week it ll be for this little treasure merry dashes off to the corner shop to buy a creme egg quite forgetting the clouds the horizon and the internet beyond yum a little later munch munch and i m passing the tag on aims i beatrice crystal jigsaw lady thinker laurie over to you ladies posted by merry weather at 14 00 24 comments sunday 6 april 2008 three inches of snow ha after my careless prediction on the previous post last week it snows more snow than we have ever seen before my boys assured me solemnly before donning their peruvian hats and flying outside to play not snowballs but frisbee ah after this forecasting coup i am turning my attention to the national lottery i don t want a million that would be a burden i d have to give most of it away just a little win would be good they ve dropped the frisbee now and are having the snowball fight of the century refereed by the three year old anxiously through the window sigh i ll have to go and join them posted by merry weather at 13 45 18 comments sunday 30 march 2008 spring and the impulsive snail moves on i am a hopeless blogger a self confessed snail but a good reader i shall post something cheerful when spring is sprung a bit more alas it ll snow now probably posted by merry weather at 15 29 9 comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom into the blue this blog maybe out of date but it lives on as long as i do quietly merry weather warm hearted impulsive occasionally graceful accident prone tall happy in my skin bit shy i m here from time to time to have a laugh and meet other funny people i have three boys and i m a cheerful self employed gardener bereaved and redundant in one year 2010 but now truly independent and staying that way life is good life is really short and i firmly believe as i ve always told my smallest son you have to keep laughing or your face withers and your bum drops off ahem view my complete profile free like a bird antony the johnsons inspire vento 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