... ouchouchouch...
It was a successful day, though. Spent a lovely long time wandering around Wyevale, saw a lot of wantees but were very restrained. Ended up buying silver and gold thymes, a curry plant (
helichrysum italica, Kai's choice, and so called because the leaves smell like curry powder!), little rosemary bush and English lavender (special, £2.99 each or £10 for four), two sedums (
cape blanco, the most beautiful silvery succulent, and one that looks like
this - without the words, obviously), and a saxifrage (
like this) for the lawn-side edge of the pond (though in fact I ended up splitting the cape blanco and planting it in pockets between some of the rocks. Hopefully have a photo of the finished pool tomorrow.).
And for Roeg's Pool, we found a common rush (
juncus effusus) and a water plantain (
alisma plantago-aquatica) for the pool itself, and a blue bog iris (
iris sibirica blue) for the boggy bit.
Another special - the plants were £3.50 each or £10 for three. I think we're going to need another oxygenating plant for the deeper part of the pool, though.
We also bought two fish. Because you can't have a pool without them, really, and we don't know when/if Dave next door will be able to get us some. Kai chose and named them - two beautiful, intensely richly coloured goldfish, one all orange with a long tail, the other with silvery tail and fins. Their names, respectively - Ginger and Shortcake.
..............
You expected something sensible? From
this family?
Ginger spent some time chasing the
water boatman that's appeared in the pool (I think it's a lesser water boatman, it seems to swim on its front rather than its back, but we're happy to see it anyway!), with Shortcake swimming behind him. Rather cute, actually. Heh, we have baby dragons with attitude.
Tomorrow will be busy as well: everything that needs pruning has to have the chop (planning the second bonfire for the evening - it's supposed to be wet on Sunday), and I want to plant the poolside succulents, finish placing the rocks, then have Ken clear the rockery for me to plant the herbs. This is all assuming I can move tomorrow, of course! (Aching from lugging bloody great rocks around. I really must stop doing it...)
Ken spent the day preparing the index for the
Brislington Ghosts book - that's done now. The Dartmouth publisher emailed him: they've arranged for him to stay for free at one of the sites mentioned in the book - the haunted room in a rather posh hotel, rooms normally £155 a night - for the free publicity, when he goes down at the end of September. Nice,
ne?
We should be getting the final proofs for the Crystals book on Monday: the publisher needs feedback by Friday at the very latest, though at this stage we can only have anything changed if it's absolutely essential (like spelling mistakes). It'll be great to see the final product!
And I've been asked not to say too much about the Dreams book until much closer to its publication date - so sorry, I can't post any details yet!
Right - back to work...
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
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