Good morning and welcome to today
Well, Teddy Bear and I have done our usual morning walk around our rain-battered garden assessing the damage and apologising to all the beautiful shrubs and plants which so valiantly strained to please; only to be battered down by the prevailing weather. Roses and Hydrangea Anabelle are a source of great joy for me and all are in such a beleaguered state of disarray. My beautiful blue Agapanthus are valiantly trying to show themselves for me and I love them for trying so hard. True beauty can’t be diminished by anything. We might have to learn to admire from a different angle. I can admire my Annabelles from their sprawling coverage of the ground. Quite a metaphor for life in so many ways...Loving and admiring for what ‘is‘ rather than what ought to be. Gardens can teach us so much if we choose to listen.
I am still on snail patrol in the dead of night! I go out and collect the army of snails who come uninvited specifically to eat my hollyhocks. Mine are homing snails led by Sir Micawber Munchalot. I now can identify them individually. They are the same snails which return every night after I pick them up and carefully place them outside my house.
I live in constant fear of box tree caterpillars attacking my Buxus balls. I have had to place many pheromone canisters to entice the male moths away from the buxus. Big sigh.
In other news ( sorry, I have been known to get carried away clopping on about the off-topic garden
![Face with rolling eyes :rolling_eyes: 🙄](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/joypixels/emoji-assets@5.0/png/64/1f644.png)
) I remain perplexed about the secrecy now surrounding the much clucked about chickens...I mean you’d have expected felicitations, fanfare, and ferocious shrieking wouldn’t you? We got nada. We’ve been introduced to some eggs but not their mothers. Hmmm. Odd.
What will the week ahead bring? Are we all thrumming our fingers in eager anticipation?
Peace, Piece, Peas
![Victory hand :v: ✌](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/joypixels/emoji-assets@5.0/png/64/270c.png)
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