Day 8 of the 100 day project
We were away overnight staying with some friends and got back home about five o' clock. Normally I would make a cup of tea, have half an hour with the newspaper and then get on with making a meal. Today as we were driving home from Derbyshire I was thinking about what I might do that would count for day 8 of the 100 day project. I decided on a little bit more cutting back. I am still coughing although I am sure I am getting better, slowly. Cutting back is quick and easy and the garden is full of tatty growth which has been blasted by the cold weather or is the dead growth from last year. It is a quarter to six. The low evening sun is shining through the dead stems of last year's phlox. I cut that back and the euphorbia next to it. Small job and it does reveal the weed and the grot grown through the bed but that is fine. Today I am not weeding and today I am not despairing! Today I am cutting back the phlox. Tick. ...