How am I to greet YOU Dear Reader?
YOU see if I write and post this Blog in MY early evening, it might be sunrise time if YOU are in the Southern Hemisphere.. aka 'Down Under'. I have the answer.. I'll say "Hello".
Curiousity is a major part of MY make-up, together with the fact that MY ole beaky Beak likes to explore, so each day I have a quick peek at MY Stats to see who has been reading MY Blog and where THEY live. Eureeka, I am being read in the Phillipines! And now there are 2 Readers in France... are they Monsieur et Madame little Big man, I wonder?
I would much rather it were that wonderfully talented Interior Designer and his most chanting wife. He is a man with extraordinary clarity of thought and vision, and like the very few GREAT Interior Decorators and Designers around the world that have this rare and vital talent, he is able to transfer to his teams of Craftsmen and Craftswomen his vision and they are able to 'realise' his designs and make people the most glorious homes.
Now, not everyone wants to live in homes like this, not everyone can afford this level of decoration BUT, and this is important.. so concentrate please Dear Reader, their designs show YOU what can be done. You may have a few old Blue and White plates that are very pretty but a little bit bashed about and so you don't use them, where are they? Probably sitting forlornly in the bottom of a cupboard never seeing the light of day, have a look at all of the very famous and talented Interior Designers and see what THEY do with a few Blue and White pots, it is very stylish. look and 'SEE' their usage of colour, scale and texture, for it is only by LOOKING at great work like this that YOUR own eye is formed.
I cannot remember who said this, please write in MY Comments Box if YOU know the answer but a woman once said "that things should be either beautiful or useful" and I think that's true.
It is the way that SHE looks at plants that SHE puts into the ground at the allotment. They have to be either : Simply glorious-beyond-belief-beautiful to look at or have a Perfume that knocks-your-head-off OR taste good-mouth-wateringly yup, you got it, it HAS to be jurst scrummydumptious-beyond-belief!
And it is for that reason, that although SHE hates the cold, SHE welcomes it because MOST plants like a cold winter, strange but true! Apples, Cherries and Plums always do better when the winter has been a cold one and certainly HER favourite flowers, Peonies, LURVE a cold winter but Dear Reader, they come from lands where the winters are really cold, places like Russia and Lithuania.
SHE is growing a Peony Walk, SHE saw one when SHE was quite young and has always wanted one and quite soon HER Peony Walk will be along the front of HER allotments. They are a mix of colours and of early, mid and late season flowering so WE have them in the house for a good period of time and one of HER favourite things to do is to pick a BIG bunch of maybe 10 stems and take them as a gift when SHE goes to a friend for supper. Some of the plants grow to over FIVE feet in height, with huge heads of flowers, WE don't have a favourite WE jurst love them all, jurst like HER Roses... when SHE has learnt how to do it, I will get HER to put up some pictures of HER flowers..
And I will ask HER to put up a photo of the Asparagus, do YOU remember the LOVELY Barbara Aveling who sold HER the sixty (yes, sixty) Asparagus Crowns? Well, they like a cold winter too and last year the Asparagus was very early and delicious despite the fact WE had a very cold winter, it was an extraordinarily early and marvellous Spring, SHE spent about 10 days working every day at the garden and it looked great and everything grew like crazy!
And a lot of the result of that hard work is in the freezer... all sorts of berries and plums, Broad and French beans together with some RED, yes RED Gooseberries.
Whoops, SHE is off to do paperwork. I must go Dear Reader, I send very fond Greetings to a new Reader who lives in The Isle of Man... "stay warm Bruce".
With best wishes to YOU all wherever you may be.. I hear that a cousin's daughter is in South America.. if She were in Mexico, I would put her in touch with the lovely Ana Lilia.. send US the photo Ana Lilia.. send the photo.
GeeGee Parrot.
February 1st, 2012.
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