![]() ![]() One of them, a huge pink poppy that I’ve never seen before, has come from my Dad’s garden, I think, because I remember them being there. They shouldn’t really be growing in the veg garden but they are, and I’m so behind with my gardening this year that I’ve left them to it. ![]() Oh, the bees absolutely love them, they’ve abandoned the foxgloves for the poppies completely and sometimes it’s a two-bee job to gather the pollen … A succession of beautiful flowers and then they’ve gone. I couldn’t even seen any petals on the ground so I couldn’t think what had happened to them! The next day, the same thing and now I think that’s all we get. Why is it that these beautiful poppy ( Papaver somniferum) flowers only last for a day?Īt first, I wondered what had happened to them when they bloomed in the morning and they had all completely gone by the evening. He knew exactly what he was doing too – look at that grin! Why is it that the dog feels the need to wallow like a hippopotamus on a walk even when the watering hole is a tiny puddle in a gloop of mud that smells like a swamp monster’s armpit? It’s quite different to woolly sock yarn to knit – that elastic makes for a super-stretchy yarn! ![]() The yarn is Pleiades sock yarn from .uk, a blend of bamboo, cotton and elastic, and the shade is Purple Reign. I first wrote about it back in August last year and I can’t quite believe that these socks have taken me nearly a year to get finished! Anyway, I’m well on the way with it again now and if I can manage to keep up the round-counting success, I’ll be nearly finished by the end of the weekend. I’ve been doing a bit of driving around this week so I’m back on with the Emergency Sock, the one that usually lives in the car for when I’m waiting to pick not so small daughter up or I’m stuck in a traffic queue. Why is it that even when you think you’re perfectly capable of counting the rows of a heel flap, you end up pulling it out three times to re-do it because it turns out that you can’t? Why is it that when you wash any clothing that has removable padding, such as a sports bra or a bikini, the padding from one side always ends up on the other side? I never take the padding out myself because the hole that’s been created to do that is usually so small and fiddly that it’s not worth the effort – but somehow the pad manages to remove itself and not only that, find its way into the very small hole on the other side so that you’re pad-less on one side and over-padded on the other until you realise why your clothes feel peculiar. This week, I have been pondering some of life’s important questions* like: ![]()
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