IT'S MAY AND A RANT

Before I get to sowing spinach and other less important stuff I am going to have a little rant.
All the ecological and similar degradation going on with our planet comes down to one thing - too many human beings. 
As we have only one place to live (at present) we should be existing in harmony with it. BUT we do not, we pollute, destroy, manipulate the earth for greed, for economic growth. 
As an elderly fogey I watch the manipulation of dna with alarm, it can eradicate disease, enable us to live longer, create new forms of life (blue roses?), genetically modify everything.
And so the world becomes infested with humans.
Enough, but lastly I apologise to subsequent generations for the mess we have left.

Back to humble blogging -
And I am raking out algae from the pond and seeing no tadpoles - perhaps the ducks ate the lot? BUT I have just seen a newt whizzing off into the depths. No house martins yet and only a couple of swallows passing through. The cold winter and early spring has put everything back.

And I am dead heading rhubarb, raking over veg beds, tidying the asparagus bed as the spears come up.


We have glorious damson blossom but, alas, have also had a couple of frosts so we may get no fruit, only time will tell.

R has been sowing parsnips, land cress, coriander and chard whilst I have sown our first carrots and spinach.

On Tuesday we had a power cut and realised that no internet, no tv, no radio etc etc is a bit of a shock. We were out for 15 hours. R said never mind I'll microwave something as the Aga temperature fell due to its thermostat. 😁
In the end we went into town for supper.
The main problem is the borehole pump did not function so we had no water. Down to the pond with a bucket for the WC.

There is some good news though, via Facebook, found out that we are entitled to £75 compensation as electricity off for more than 12 hours.

We are out to builders for the extension and await tenders.

I am pulling out sycamore seedlings by the bucketful which is doing my dodgy back no good at all.

The garden is bright with tulips - pots by the door, one on the table outside the kitchen and mainly old ones in the flower beds.

The white honesty has sown itself, not just in the garden but all along the hedge line in the horse paddock next door and the clematis armandii by the veg beds is flowering well. The one on the mower shed is not so happy and will need a good prune.

Of course the cherries are magnificent but already petals are falling onto the ground like snow.

There are many primroses in the wood and on the upper bankings but we also have a few plants of the cowslip. If these cross with the primroses will we get oxlips? I will let them self seed and we will see.

There seems to be plenty of yellow now with the daffs and so on but also reds - flowering currant, the quince

but most splendidly of all the camellia by the shed which even sports a white flower or two on one stem.