Last Sunday, when I was drafting my last blog, I thought I didn't feel quite right. On Monday, I knew I didn't feel at all right, but a Covid test was negative, so I assumed a summer cold. Tuesday morning I did another test, as I was supposed to be taking someone to an appointment - VERY positive! Fortunately someone else could step into the gap, but I was not a happy bunny and didn't enjoy my brush with SARS-Covid-19 or whatever it is calling itself currently.
I thought I should perhaps share that positive test, but decided against it as too many of us have seen them now.
So the week was shaped by feeling a bit pants, wanting to sleep all the time, feeling cold (and actually the weather wasn't as warm as it might have been), and looking for elements of joy. Well the garden is always good for that! How about many shades of pink on one rose bush? This shrub has been neglected and maltreated for over 22 years, but hardly ever stops flowering, it is a marvel. And no, I don't know the variety.
Other handsome flowers out at the moment are this multicoloured daisy type thing, wild chicory flowers a deeper blue than I remember seeing before and each flower stuffed with a questing bee, and flowers on a cactus we bought years ago and abuse roundly.
The vegetable plots are starting to feed us properly now. On Saturday we enjoyed our first aubergine and more courgettes, while yesterday we had potatoes and more courgettes, flavoured with herbs from the garden. The butternuts are starting run rampant which has to be a good sign, and I am hopeful that next weekend we will have haricot beans from the garden. Planning for winter, we planted leeks where the potatoes were, and I have sown swiss chard (Bright Lights) seeds for next winter. We have also spent time watering.
Last weekend I moved the trail camera to the edge by a field of corn that I thought would be harvested soon (still there yesterday morning), as I wondered what would come off the field and into the meadow when it was done - perhaps hares? The place I chose seems to be popular with wildlife and they appear to be used to the camera now, so there was a lot of deer action, a passing fox, a rather ugly young pheasant, and did I mention the deer? Yesterday, when I was downloading video, a small faun was watching me from the shelter of the fruit trees.
Anyway, here are a selection of short reels for you to enjoy.
I think you can see a doe feeding a faun in the background of this one.
Anyway, apologies for the delay in posting - blame the Covid, I do!
I hope normal service will be resumed next week.
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