curiouswombat: (notes from a small island)
curiouswombat ([personal profile] curiouswombat) wrote2012-06-17 05:44 pm
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Sunday Pic Spam

Hmm - life has been busy, but without any excitement, recently. Back at work - playing catch-up, but not exciting - just got a few 'thank you's which make me happy, but are not really shareable.

The weather has been wet and windy - but wetter and windier in the south of England than we've had it - I do hope it was not too bad for the wedding, [livejournal.com profile] jay_of_lasgalen!

But today it is, at least, dry.

There are a few pictures under the cut - one is a shot I have taken before - but I think this version is even better, there is one showing why we should be flattered by our neighbours, and just a few of the few flowers that have managed to bloom despite the weather.



So - I have taken this shot before - it is taken from outside the clinic where I work, looking down to the sea with the Ben-my-Chree coming in on Tuesday morning - it was an unusual time of day for her to be doing this - she was late due to a technical problem, and seems to be closer in to shore than she was last time I took a similar picture.

Ben my Chree down Murray's Rd

Back in March I posted a couple of pictures showing the demise of the triffid out the front of the house. But it has only been in the past couple of weeks that we have finally got the paviours down and the work complete. At the moment there is only one small tub of flowers out there - it will look better with just a couple more, I think - but here we are - job done;

Front of house

Now - they do say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery - so here is our next door neighbour, flattering us -

Next Door

They started within 3 days of ours being done... and then it occurred to me that the white chippings that had been between the plants in their garden were put down with a couple of weeks of the chippings in ours, years ago! Just call us 'The Joneses'!

This is the small plant under the window in our garden -

flowers out front

I am not sure whether to take a couple of plants from out the back and relocate them, or get some new ones. There were a couple of privets in tubs out there before, which are currently out the back, which I might put back, but I think they need a bit of TLC first.

This one could go out there, perhaps - it would need a bit of a trim, first, though -

back yard 2

There is less in flower out the back yard than usual at this time of year - just a few spots of pink - a few monkey plants, ans some stocks -

Back yard 1


stocks

And the clematis growing in the pear tree - but this year it has flowered so far up, and so deep in the foliage, that it is hard to make out the flowers -

clematis

I am hoping for enough sunshine, sometime this summer, that I can sit out there and the pots be full of flowers! Maybe some scent, too. I live in hope.

D-d and a couple of her friends arrived in Rhodes this morning for a week - at least they will have some sunshine!
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[identity profile] spiced-wine.livejournal.com 2012-06-17 05:08 pm (UTC)(link)
I am hoping for enough sunshine, sometime this summer, that I can sit out there and the pots be full of flowers! Maybe some scent, too. I live in hope.

Me, too! It was windy for three days, and our fence was creaking alarmingly. Kev temporarily shored it up.

Flowers are slowly coming out in the pots, but I can't sit out and enjoy them :\
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[personal profile] shirebound 2012-06-17 05:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Such lovely flowers! I was just outside taking pictures of some of the blooms in our neighborhood.

[identity profile] dawtheminstrel.livejournal.com 2012-06-17 05:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Every time you post pics, I realize again what a beautiful place you live in.

[identity profile] petzipellepingo.livejournal.com 2012-06-17 05:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd say that your garden is coming along nicely so sending along sunny vibes.

[identity profile] kortirion.livejournal.com 2012-06-17 05:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Flowers in my garden - not so many. My roses have taken quite a bashing from the rain. But long long, bright green grass... you can have plenty of that!

Yes I should go for a few extra pots out there, your daisies look a bit lonely on their own. Nice pavoiurs though - I like your grey better than their yellow. *g* Strangely, although maybe not because it is another sea-side town... your view down the street reminds me of the suburban area between Penzance and Newlyn. And apropros of nothing... D-in-Law has expressed a strong desire that when their lease is up in Greenwich (a year or so) that they move to Brighton - I can go with that... I get to go down to the sea-side! ;-)

PS: Did you see Gillo's jpg? About summer being a 404 failure to launch? I loved that!

[identity profile] just-ann-now.livejournal.com 2012-06-17 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Oooh, monkey flowers! I haven't seen, or even thought about them in years; we saw them all over the in place in pots and window boxes when we lived in Alaska. Very pretty!
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[identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com 2012-06-17 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I actually remember sitting out in March... but there were no flowers then either!

Here's hoping we get some nice, warm, summery days to sit outdoors and laze a little.

[identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com 2012-06-17 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
It would be a lot better if there were more of them in flower... but we can live in hope.

[identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com 2012-06-17 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
I am fortunate to live here. And yet it is one of the interesting effects of the internet - the chance to see ourselves, and our locality, through others' eyes. To me these pics are pretty everyday - and I find pictures of where you live fascinating!

[identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com 2012-06-17 06:00 pm (UTC)(link)
It really needs a bit more colour - there are a lot of plants (like nasturtiums and sweet peas) that are just sitting there at the moment. But hopefully both you and I will have some good warm summer days soon.

[identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com 2012-06-17 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I liked Gillo's jpeg, too. (She and I have decided to go to this (http://www.returnofthering.org/) - do you fancy joining us for some, or all?)

I don't have any grass at all now - I don't really pine for it.

I have just got to organise myself a bit to get some pots out at the front now - blue ones, maybe, with the grey paviours. I have a couple of blue pots out the back...

And as for the colour of the paviours - Patrick, who did it for us, said he thought the yellow ones looked too much like the ones the council use at crossings so that those with limited sight can spot them. I think he is right - but I am genuinely pleased that you agree with me!

And having a son and daughter-in-law in Brighton sounds like a very good thing.

[identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com 2012-06-17 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
They are such fun - and seem to flower no matter what which, in this weird spring-summer, is a good thing. I guess that might be why they are popular in Alaska,too.

[identity profile] nutmeg3.livejournal.com 2012-06-17 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Lovely! I especially like the clematis hiding in the pear tree. There's something wild and fantastic (in the sense of "like fantasy") about it.
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[identity profile] kazzy-cee.livejournal.com 2012-06-17 06:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I like your new front courtyard! Pretty flowers too!

[identity profile] chaotic-binky.livejournal.com 2012-06-17 06:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Your front garden looks lovely - much better than the gravel crap my ex got some cowboys to put down a few years ago.

[identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com 2012-06-17 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
The clematis is simply let to go wild in the pear tree - I don't know if it should be pruned or anything - I just leave it be. So it really is just doing its own thing up there! It does earn some odd looks from anyone who spots those flowers up there.

[identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com 2012-06-17 06:40 pm (UTC)(link)
it is going to be much easier to keep looking nice - but it would benefit from another plant or two, I think.

[identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com 2012-06-17 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)
I am really pleased with it - it will be much easier to cope with than gravel would have been, too.
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[identity profile] spiced-wine.livejournal.com 2012-06-17 06:54 pm (UTC)(link)
There is always hope :)

[identity profile] petzipellepingo.livejournal.com 2012-06-17 07:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, it's warm here now. By Tuesday - Wednesday the temperature will be 92F/34C but we are too dry although a storm just rolled past.

[identity profile] brutti-ma-buoni.livejournal.com 2012-06-17 07:04 pm (UTC)(link)
*Grump* "Busy but not exciting" is all too familiar for the past couple of weeks. And it's now warm enough for me to be suffering quite bad hay fever but nowhere near nice enough weather to want to be outside.

I blame the Olympics. Or the Euro. Or *something*. Grump grump grump.

I like your paved area and flowers though!

[identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com 2012-06-17 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
If we do get a nice day sometime, we can sit in respective gardens drinking a glass of our choice and imagine ourselves closer together with a nice Dorwinion...


And oh! I do love that elf in your icon.

[identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com 2012-06-17 07:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh meep! I'd probably have to retreat back indoors where it was cooler, even with my parasol up over the table!

[identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com 2012-06-17 07:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Life is just 'proceeding' at the moment. There is a good deal to be thankful for in that, of course, but it would proceed so much better if the weather was more seasonal.

It seems so unfair to have the hay-fever when there is no proper summer weather. I blame the Greeks...

I do rather like the front 'courtyard' - another plant or two will improve it even more, though,I think.

[identity profile] pondhopper.livejournal.com 2012-06-17 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
I would fill your front space so full of pelars that you wouldn't even see the nice pavers.
:D
Does it get sun? If so, how about container roses?
I like the colour I'm seeing, though. And I am envious of your clematis in a tree. It's too hot for them here and I have tried but no...they wither away. Still 31ºC here at the moment and it's nearly 10 PM!

I would love to live within view of ships coming in and out of port.

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