That’s it!  Another Summer almost over.  Is it me, or are the summers getting shorter?  The blazing season is heralded by the frequent need to cut the lawns, made all the worse this year by a sprinkling of a magic substance known to the already initiated as ‘feed and weed’.  It’s a cocktail of ferrous sulphate and other ferocious nasties that both fertilises the grass and at the same time kills the weed beasties.  Botanic genocide I call it!  Ethnic cleansing of the plant kind.  Only a couple of weeks into the campaign the ‘Grass’ Tribe had run amok, growing at some phenomenal rate, blocking the light from our kitchen window if left for more than a few days.  Our poor mower had never had to work so hard, and as for the poor lawnmower pilot, he had to tend the pink bits on his baldy head for days after!  All was not in vain though, because the lawns now look better than they’ve ever done.

How sad…. a gardenophobe talking about the garden!  I must be going absolutely mad.  In fact the last 24 hours have made me think the same thing too.  What is it about humans?  Why do they still have to comply with the ancient routine of bearing a grudge?  It’s an absolutely pointless waste of energy.  It never achieves anything apart from ill feeling and it occupies time that could otherwise be used for much more enjoyable pastimes. (mowing the lawn perhaps? ….. perhaps not!)  I hope for the sake of my own sanity that we’ve now managed to extinguish what was becoming an epic war battle among some of our members.

All together now for 2012

The Olympics have now finished too.  By virtue of the fact that we spent the first week of the festivities relaxing on a warm sandy beach somewhere, worrying about not who was to win the next Gold, but what cocktail to sip before dinner each night.  I have to say though, that the closing stuff was worth the watch, if only to see Uncle Boris doing the usual buffoonery as the new flag bearer!  What a character.  I can’t help but smile when I see him fulfilling is public obligations.  Good on you Boris!

What next I wonder?  Methinks more of the world should get to know about us.  Watch this space!!