Gardening

I was out in the garden today, getting it ready for the spring. I put glass in the greenhouse, sawed up a table to make potting shelves, and put all my various lilies in there for potting. My stargazer lilies are poking up out of the compost already. I planted and replanted valerian, chamomile, my two dahlias, both very dark red, mints of various sorts, oregano. Was very happy to notice that wallflowers have seeded themselves against the wall, most appropriately, and should be showing bright yellow and orange soon. I've no idea why my rosemary bushes are flowering, but it's something I've noticed happening across the country. Surely it must be to do with climate change. More evidence: the pink hollyhocks were flowering in December. That's just not normal.

The squirrels were out - one of them had an enormous chicken bone from god knows where. I found a dead thrush in the greenhouse - it must've flown into the glass and broken its neck. We kill more birds with windows every year than get caught by cats. They're very beautiful things, thrushes. Why couldn't it have been a pigeon instead? We have tens of them hanging around, cooing like fools. In the pond we found a tiny black leech! Apparently, and yuckily, they feed happily on snails. We also discovered some miniscule grey shrimps.

Also, I yoga'd and have done a lot more of the dreaded wanky formatting.

Part of a long meme, from randomblade. I really couldn't do it all, but in the spirit of procrastination before bedtime: ( meme )