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10:48:00 o'clock BST
Hearing War: Cisco kid
Tired and in need of a break
Live8 Day and I shall be listen to the music via AOL's live internet stream. One more design to present to a client this morning and we are off to France tomorrow. I'm excited about the design: very modern and unusual and using wonderful stone, both cut and natural.
I can't tell you how much I need a break. As anyone who runs a small business will know, you spend a month working twice as hard before and a month sorting out the mess after: all for 2 weeks in the sun. By the time you get there you are exhausted and its hard to relax knowing what is waiting for you when you get back. We also have the Mother- and Sister-in-Law to deal with when we get out there: I'm trying hard to feel enthusiastic about it but I'm so weak I can hardly stand, let alone drive to the south of France.
Ignore me....it'll be great really and I shall come back full of the joys of Spring and ready to take on even the most unreasonable customer, tax official, or member of staff. And heaven knows we've had plenty this year!
A few photos for you before we go: more plants from the garden at work - Yucca gloriosa (they are flowering well everywhere at the moment), Penstemon Hidcote Pink, Jasminium revolutum, Phlomis fruticosa, Hypericum Hicote with purple Sage and Centranthus with our wonderful Japanese Maple......enjoy.
At home we have a lovely, if a little weak so far, golden Catalpa tree. It is looking wonderful against the greens around it but it has been grafted onto the common green form and I notice and removed suckers yesterday. My other work prior to leaving was to pick as many strawberries as possible and make jam. We easily found 2.5 kg but had trouble finding enough sugar in the house. We ended up using a mix of caster, jam-making and regular granulated sugars. And what a disaster! We now have an assortment of pots of strawberry sirop, having failed to get it to set. Back to using the bread maker two pots at a time I think.
No web log for a couple of weeks.....talk to you when we return.
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How wonderful to find someone as crazy as me. I too made dissaster jam many moons ago when I was a young housewife. I soon discovered that if I hadn't the preserving sugar I needed to add lemon juice and apple pips, in fact any fruit pips will do wraped in a piece of muslin.
Isn't gardening a pain? I wonder why we do it, but I still havn't lost the joy of discovering a plant that was thought lost to the frost that pounced unexpectedly in late May. Or that hard to grow seed that has sprouted while my back was turned.
Hope you have a great time in France. Don't worry about home, I dare say everything will be fine when you get home, and your clients will be delighted with your designs.
Cassie.
11/07/05 18:50