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Date: 17 January 2005 15:52:41
For those of you who follow the progress of the Bamphires I can report, having seen them briefly over the Christmas period, that they and the bamphire parents are fine. The bamphires are growing very quickly; the elder is at school fulltime and the younger has started nursery. This means that their mother, writer of the infamous blog 'Confessions of a Bamphire Mother', now has some time on her hands three mornings a week and can often be found plodding along wind- and rain-swept streets plying her Avon trade. I gather however that on the very first morning on which she had this luxury she defected to a coffee shop and read the paper in peace and quiet for the first time in five years.
Returning to more mundane thoughts, have you seen the spring flowers yet? We saw some snowdrops at the weekend and apparently many flowers are out two months early. We have bulbs coming up in the garden but no spring ones as I didn't get my act together in the autumn and plant any.
We are, as last year, battling to get beds dug before spring comes (if it hasn't already - see above) between wind, rain and snow. One day the ground is soggy and squelchy, the next frozen solid. We have however (and this was the cause of much excitement yesterday) prepared the first bed to be dug. Breakthrough! We are making raised beds to combat the drainage problems and we now have the wherewithall to make the sides as well. Just the digging to do now then. I've worked out I need to dig one bed per month, minimum, to have them already in time for planting. We are praying for fine weather at the weekends.
Incidently, before Christmas we had a film crew in the village shooting a film version of the cult comedy for which this blog is named. Watch out for yours truly walking through the shot to catch a train! Interestingly they had to bring along a pile of leaves and an industrial-sized fan to blow them around. They kept having to rake them back into a pile in order to blow them around with the fan. I ask you. Why not just leave the wind to do it? Much more eco-friendly.