Feest Isolation Days – 7 September
Hope none of you were in Portugal at the weekend! Or if you were, that you were at least flying into an English Airport and not a Welsh or Scottish airport! Bad luck if so. The breakup of the UK seems to be happening already. If you live in England, Portugal is Covid secure. Wales? Scotland? Nope! Then you have to quarantine for fourteen days. What? How could that possibly be right? Perhaps it has something to do with a Government in London that cannot make decisions. No, wait, that’s not true! They can! They just change their mind all the time. The amount of U Turns they have made since the start of the Pandemic are really laughable. Unless you’re a student who didn’t get into the University you wanted to because of the shenanigans with the algorithm or…unless you weren’t traced by track and trace and end up with Covid. More U turns happen all the time. And where is Boris?
He doesn’t seem to be seen anywhere these days. There are no press briefings, no leadership. He did show up at this school and these teachers nailed it….
The weather certainly has changed! There is more than a whiff of Autumn in the air and despite the gloomy news from around the globe, there remains lots to be thankful for.
Nature is a delight and a wonder! Outside our front door, we have been watching a squash plant grow. We didn’t plan it. Or plant it. The pot outside the door is filled with a lovely geranium that lives in the hall in the winter. But this squash plant was determined. The compost that we make must have had a seed in it that grew It’s such fun to watch.
The back garden has had a few little extras as well. A strawberry plant appeared between some patio stones and has borne some tiny fruit, and this tomato plant, again that we didn’t plant, and a pretty pansy…our favourite blue…have all taken up residence. They are more than welcome here. It would be a hoot if these vegetables produced something edible.
When we first moved here…twenty nine years ago…a decision was made. There wasn’t enough room in this garden to have both vegetables and flowers. Flowers won. I’m delighted. When we lived in Exeter we had a garden with both veg and flowers as well as an allotment. We really didn’t have time for that when we moved here. Work was full on for many years. And gardens take time. Now that we have more of that perhaps it would be fun to have an allotment…hmmm. Maybe those vegetables that have turned up are trying to tell us something?
However our vegetable supplier since the lockdown, Reg the Veg of Clifton needs our custom now more than ever! Flowers it continues to be then. Unless we decide to make a big U Turn? What do you think?
With love
Kathy x