Welcome all to blog number 1. Douglas Adams came up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to new technologies; 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.” Well Douglas Adams was wrong. I was right there, right there at the birth of the most exciting thing since electricity and I was much more interested in a cup tea and a good book, the sort that goes up at farenheit 451. Well I suppose not even Tim Berners-Lee would have been crazy enough to have attempted such a feat in the mid eighties, was there even enough floppies in existence for such a feat?
Apologies I digress, I do that a lot. Point is I’m a woman of a certain age who woke up and had to log on when I would much rather have dug in. So it was suggested that I learn to love the internet just that little bit more and try to blog my way out of the hole that society has created for me, and well, I do like gardening. Sorry I will rephrase that, I love gardening, I love reading about it, I love doing it, I love the results of it with a large glass of red wine – so who knows, maybe I could get to love writing about it too.
The photo which will hopefully be attached to my first blog is of my patio area. The Bistro set was a birthday present, my neighbours probably think I’m going though a mid life crisis that is boho chic Cath Kidston shaped. They are wrong, Bistromathics is the most powerful computational force known to parascience and I was merely attempting to take over the known universe whilst drinking Earl Grey tea. The Bellis was a bargain, part of a set from Morrisons, 2 for £3 for which you get 12 largish plugs of spring bedding. Most of which are boring stocking fillers, but the Bellis Perennis ‘Pomponette’ was a bit of a surprise find. Part of the Daisy family, a hardy perennial that makes a necessary change from the dreary pansies and primroses that infest my pots.
