The morning after the night before
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Date: 04 June 2005 13:39:25
Last night's curry was delicious. And there was a lot of it, so thanks to M and R for sharing my birthday with me. We won't think about what the scales said this morning, oh no. I'm sure the scales will be just fine after my [ahem] takeaway with friends later this evening. Whoops.
This morning I had to do that thing I dread - get a haircut. I *hate* having it done (even though my hairdresser is lovely and very good and I look quite glam at the moment, thanks to the half ton of product in my hair) - mainly because I know that once I've slept on it tonight I will probably have to go to church tomorrow with a paper bag on my head, and it will take me weeks to get the hang of drying it now the layers have been tidied up. Perhaps I should just have a short back and sides and be done with worrying about it. Except then I'd keep on moaning about how it makes me look like a 10 year old boy (length is definitely important in my case - short layers are not good!).
When I got back I took more pictures of the garden. I know I only did a set last week, but I've noticed that flowers seem so fleeting that there were one or two I wanted to capture before they fade. I decided to do a lot more close-ups this time, as the larger scale views aren't that much different from month to month. The whole lot are here - I'm still getting the hang of the camera and I haven't done a huge amount of close-ups before, so will need to do a bit more practising, as some of them aren't focussed properly, but some of them I'm really pleased with. The last picture makes me laugh - I held my camera at a slight angle to try to compensate for the wonky arch, not thinking about the house in the background which now appears to be suffering from some very severe subsidence!
Favourites at the moment include this one of my white roses:
The roses are gorgeous at the moment, absolutely rioting, despite the fact that I've completely neglected them this year and not fed them or anything. I've never had so many in one go, in red, pink and white.
Also my buddleia, from a cutting from Sarah's:
Sarah bought the original a couple of inches high from the local fete a few years ago, and was told it would grow a few feet high. It reached about 10' tall in her garden and is absolutely huge, this one is a cutting from her (as are half the plants in the garden, the other half being cuttings from my parents) and I really like the orange blobs rather than the usual common purple rods that are ten-a-penny round here. The bees seem to like it too.
And the irises. My first year here I planted some iris bulbs, I had a solitary purple one flower once a couple of years back, they send up leaves all the time but this is the first year that the white ones have deigned to flower. And there's 3 of them! Very happy with that. They're beautiful - delicate, intricate, interesting - sadly I'm no good at drawing plants in details so won't even attempt doing these, the photos will have to do instead. This is the reason I took pictures today - it's been so windy and unsummery that I wanted to capture them before they get blown to bits. Enjoy:
