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Published: August 3rd 2020
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Saturday - August 1st - the eighth month of the year . As I lay in bed not wanting to rise I thought white rabbits . Some people would say white rabbits before they said anything else on the first day of the month. Reputedly to give you good luck for the coming month . I never did . I just lay there wondering if it was going to be dry day to walk . The nights are beginning slowly to draw in . It feels late summer . I ached as I lay there . My feet ached in a different way to walking . Swimming had been a brilliant diversion but I found muscles I had forgotten about . I wondered what walking would feel like today . Would I return to sore insteps ? Would my knees ache? What about my hips ? I would soon find out .
After breakfast I set off . It felt quite a change to walk. Even if I were doing the same old road there had been a few days inbetween where I did something different . I found myself thinking a lot . Yes my feet were aching .
Surely it would wear off before the end of my walk . I dont think so much swimming . I count the roof trusses . I count the people swimming . I see who is there and who has missed the session . Walking I found myself just looking into gardens and seeing no-one. No sign of my neighbour nor any sign of man with dog . No viewings booked to see our house . If we don't get any this morning we wont have any at all over the weekend . It ise going to be a long weekend . Time drags now in a way it never seemed to before .
I find myself on a corner . A special corner where the home owner has made his garden into a wildflower meadow. He is famous in the village . As famous as Spiderman was when he ran in the Spring . Earlier in the season the corner was white. Full of daisies and lavender . Today the daisies had gone over and were replaced with a riot of colour . Yellow Corn Marigolds . They were common in the 70's and 80's but changes in farming
has meant a decline in these lovely delicate flowers . Poppies rich red and blue Cornflowers . I made a mental note that next year I would leave a patch of garden over to wild flowers and try to create my own little wild flower meadow.
Around the corner the trend continued . Another front garden given over to "a treat for the bees". The owner had planted his garden up with wildflowers and placed his sign . Further round another patch of bare soil had been transformed . Pink Corn Cockle and Poppies . Again another treat for the butterflies and bees. It made a welcoming site urging me on with my walk .
Sunday - swim day . Met some old friends again not seen for months. The baths were quiet . The changing rooms empty . The staff doing a wonderful job of making sure that only the right numbers of people are allowed in to swim . They manage segregation and make folks stand at a good distance from each other . Even in the water they police social distancing . They clean and clean and clean again .
We creep closer to holidays but somehow in the back of my mind I dont think we will be going anywhere this year .
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Jackie Harrison
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Gardens
We have a small wiidlife garden in the front!! It stemmed from when there was a massive silver birch tree that was chopped down as it was dangerous. but the stump was left at about 4'. Its covered in ivy - so I made a small path round it. edged with old tree trunks and it hosts bluebells, primroses.foxgloves, ferns, a couple of lilac trees that are also about 4ft, a budhlea ( dont think that is spelt right!!) a Black Lace elder flower tree ( so that I can make elderflower champagne in the spring!!) a clump of teasels -(they may have to go as too many 'babies'!!) and a couple of hawthorn bushes I have just planted!! I keep trying to get more things to grow but I have transplanted daisies and clover this year! Not very successful with meadow flowers so I think I shall stick with woodland plants!!