Sunday, May 27, 2018

The warp and weft of life.




There is a dog in this photograph.


And in this. Camouflaged PON.


To the greengrocers for pineapples. The ones from Reunion are sweet all the way through in a way that pineapples that are shipped to the UK never quite are.

We stop off at the strawberry farm.The farmers wife tells me that they're are only two days of Gariguettes left . After that she'll be switching the pickers over to the Clery's - a variety that has a flavour that is best described as sherbety.


Most of the Ceanothus have stopped flowering. One by the rose border soldiers valiantly on. This morning it is covered in bees. Estimating bee numbers is as difficult as estimating inaugural crowds. I guess there must be a thousand at least on the thing.


The bees make a rich deep buzzing sound that can be heard from inside the house. This is a sound that says all is well with the world. Our bee numbers seem to fluctuate but the 2018 bee population is having a banner year. 

The mayor is up early to borrow the step ladder. He's hanging out the flags on the war memorial for yet another holiday. As Angus and the PONs set off along the lane the Old Farmer returns with the Belgian Lady. '' We drove through the night " he informs us. '' With the car windows down " she adds.


In Scotland the painters are supposed to be at work repainting the outside of the wee house. Not as easy as it sounds as they have to show the local authority that the colours they are using match the originals. The head painter phones to say they can only do the facade and not the side '' You've got swallows and wrens nesting in the vennel ''. Any doubt that we've not chosen the right firm of decorators vanishes. The decorators lads are told to put up the scaffolding on the front of the house 'quietly' so they don't disturb the nests.

Just another day full of things too unimportant for a diary but too important to go completely unrecorded. The warp and weft of life.



An interesting comparison : https://twitter.com/ianbremmer/status/998932355527139328






6 comments:

Yamini MacLean said...

Hari OM
I see tails. That's enough to say PONs are having fun with their day. And again with the produce envy... YAM xx

WFT Nobby said...

I have it on good authority that the Trump administration estimate is ten thousand bees.

Coppa's girl said...

Are Bob and Sophie camouflaged so that they can leap out at the occasional unsuspecting passer-by?
Those strawberries look delicious.
Good to know that the painters are sympathetic to nesting birds - don't you just wish you could bring them over to work on the ROF?

Poppy Q said...

Pineapple and strawberries sound delicious to us. It is a cool 4 degrees and we are heading to bed after a dinner of kiwi roast lamb, with potatoes, carrots and cabbage - a good winter dinner.

rottrover said...

That photo of the tail waving in the grass! Fabulous! I completely agree about the sound of bees.

Liz Van Buren said...

Enjoy your lovely bees Angus! I am counting them in single digits here in Eugene Oregon and have for the past several summers. I am ecstatic over seeing 3 bumblebees on a rose bush at one time. To say I am alarmed would be a huge understatement. The ceanothus is heartstopping! xo