Monday, May 4, 2009
May Bank Holiday
Posted in Musings
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Nothing special to report, just a lot of Bank Holiday traditions: After a couple of warm, sunny months with perhaps two slightly rainy days, the weather has become wet and cool - just right for Bank Holiday! In fact it was so cold and grey this morning that hardly anybody turned up for the Allertonshire Car Boot Sale, and those hardy souls who did wore jackets and huddled in the shelter of their cars quite a bit. N bought a picture but on researching it, isn't keen. H and I didn't buy much, though I got a small book of Indian recipes for L's new favourite taste. This caused amusement when the 'recipe' for onion bhajis listed the ingredients as '1/2 packet of onion bhaji mix, water', and H got some fun out of a gust of wind that rattled the sales tables, threatening to send things scuttering. J and L stayed at home - another Bank Holiday morning tradition. And yes, we have had a traditional Bank Holiday afternoon: trip to B&Q for paint, then N and H have nearly finished painting the hall. It's the colour of orange juice, which is really, if you think about it, yellow, so that substituted nicely for sunshine. The poor rabbits stayed in their hutches most of the day, out of the cold. L has gone down to the May Fair with E and E (her best friend and her boyfriend), but J must be gettingolder - he declared the fair 'too expensive' and spent the money on seeing Derren Brown instead. Now if you think I have missed the other great British Bank Holiday tradition of Doing Things To The Garden, admittedly I haven't managed more than a smidgeon today but I've bought a host of plants over the past couple of weeks (from Bedale Car Boot Sale, highly recommended) and I'm slowly finding homes for these new treasures: a Bleeding Heart (Dicentra spectabilis), a primula Vialii, some ox-eye daisies, my first ever auricula ("Gold Lace"), some runner beans, 35 leek seedlings, a tree lupin, some sweet peas and a plant with red flowers that I can't think of the name of, and lastly, I took pity on some freesia and Dutch Lily bulbs being sold off in B&Q. I like rescuing plants. Add to these the sprouting of some butternut squash seeds I planted last week, and I have... a shortage of space. Happy May Bank Holiday! |
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