Staying Home 2
Life in the slow lane.
Uninterrupted time gives us the opportunity to take up ‘slow’ activities. Phil, my husband, is stone carving in the garden using a Mason’s dummy and claw chisel on a lump of limestone. Will it be a gargoyle or maybe a stone feature? I don’t know.
Otherwise some of his time is spent pondering chess moves with his on-line chess opponent - one in Moldova and one closer to home.
Me? Getting to grips with cable stitches in a new piece of knitting and trying to solve a cryptic crossword gives me a change from gardening, reading and planning an on-line photo scrapbook.
Keep safe.
A work in progress
Philip Wright is sculpting a chess piece in stone; his work is based on The Lewis Chessmen.
Having seen the original chessmen in the British museum Philip is inspired to create his own piece.
Susan Wright (Photos on the right).
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This self isolating and beautiful weather has meant we have spent a lot of time working in the garden, mostly the back garden because that gets all the sun. It has been lovely to see the various plant come and go over the past weeks, see the selection in our photographs.
We also decided it was time to take the bubble wrap down on the greenhouse , which meant emptying all the plants out and giving it all a good sweep before putting them back.
We have over wintered fuchsias, and geraniums which are coming on great. Fortunately just before lockdown we purchased plug plants, geraniums, begonias, lobelia etc., so our little greenhouse is now packed full, oh not forgetting the grape vine which is sprutting lots of new shoots.
Though not massive we are very fortunate to have a garden.
keep safe everyone, Pauline and Malcolm Marples
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