Life continues its calm course here with housework, cooking, baking and gardening every day and occasionally a visitor or a trip out. This week we had to take Gracie to the vet because she has a sore ear, again. It's infected and the vet has put her on antibiotics and painkillers and wants to see her again next week. If there's been no improvement, he'll give her an anaesthetic and clean the ear out properly. He tried to do that this week but she cried so much he stopped so she could calm down. Poor Gracie.
The weather has been a bit strange here. We've just had two days of 26C and it's the middle of winter! It's cooler now and next week it will be cold. But the garden is motoring along and soon I'll take some more photos for you. I've raised a lot of candytuft seedlings and took cuttings of two French lavenders and a yellow rose which are growing well. I'll plant all of them in the main garden over the weekend, re-tie the tomato plants, prune, weed and finish off the fertilising I started mid-week. How is your garden coming along?
We've had sudden surges of Covid in the southern states in the past week or two. I hope the Covid situation where you live has settled down although I've read in recent days that Covid Delta variant is surging in a number of countries. I linked to David Attenborough's Extinction program a couple of weeks ago. It gives the latest facts about the loss of biodiversity world-wide and what the consequences are of that. There is a prediction by a number of scientists that more viral diseases will present themselves because of it. There is another link below as a follow up.
- Let's start off with a really positive story. This isn't about Ash Barty winning Wimbledon, it's about her as a person and how she conducts herself.: Ash Barty's performance coach on defining yourself, dodging distraction and forgetting FOOPO
- Ash Barty has made a lifelong impression without pretence, agendas or grandstanding
- ‘Don’t spend the difference’: where to put your money if you can’t buy your own home
- ‘Extinction: The Facts’: Attenborough’s new documentary is surprisingly radical
- Why you must use kitchen soap.^^ (If you use liquid kitchen detergent, look. ^^)
- Raw dog food ‘may be fuelling spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria’
- Amazon rainforest now emitting more CO2 than it absorbs
- Build an Old-Fashioned Hotbed and Start Your Seeds in Style
- 30 quick and easy dinner ideas using chicken breast No Knead No Sugar No Milk! Super Soft & Healthy Bread!
- Build a better pantry
- GDonna - because of the goings-on over the past months since Covid came into our lives, I stopped reading blogs, stayed offline as much as possible and did more things around the house. I limited the news I watched to ten minutes. I found the more I heard about the death and suffering, the more I worried about it. Last week I remembered GDonna's blog and went in to visit, half thinking it might be gone, but there it was in all its beauty. I used to be a regular reader and will be again now because I love her authenticity and the photos of her calm home. If you've never read Donna's blog, and even if you have, check it out because it feels like a breath of soft country air on your face.
