Sunday 24th May 2009

Well today the weather has finally come good again. Bright blue skies from 5am this morning and it looks like it will be sunny all day. Would have spent the whole day up in the garden but a guy is coming at some point to collect some hifi magazines I sold on eBay. Still making lots of room if not lots of money!

Spent most of yesterday up in the garden with thick blanketing grey cloud overhead, (it even rained at one point.) The cloud finally lifted around 4pm to reveal a deep blue sky. It was like having 2 days in one but I much preferred the second half. Planted some climbing roses Nick and I bought the other week around a metal archway and also planted a giant Himalayan lily which will hopefully look stunning if the slugs (and snails) leave it alone. Yes have to put snails in that sentence now. I’m not one for all this global warming normally but we definitely now have many more snails in this area; and big ones too! 20 years ago they would have been a very rare oddity but now they are everywhere. They must be spreading northward as the winters get milder. If we ever doubt the fragility of our grip on nature we need only think of the humble slug. It survives and thrives despite our best efforts to eradicate it. Would that Blue whales could match their fecundity as I suppose it is too much for certain countries to stop killing them. If these great creatures become hunted again then we know one of the best things to happen to the environment and a huge success of world cooperation has like everything we touch; failed through greed.