baybeasts

We had a big day in the garden yesterday, spreading around worm poo and blood and bone and seasol, planting out ‘megapunnets’ of pansies and primulas around the borders of the vegie garden (to try and stop the mynahs tossing the mulch over the brick edgings into the paths), pricking out columbine and lawn daisy and parsley and carrot seedlings, and planting the first round of spring/summer seeds in seedling trays in the greenhouse. It was divine, but there is still a fair bit more to go - we have to thin the onions, and plant out a bay tree, a daphne and two blueberry bushes.

It was so lovely to just be in the garden. The sun was warm enough to wear a singlet top for the first time since winter began (as long as I kept moving) and I could almost feel the vitamin D soaking into my brain and blasting away some of the S.A.D. induced blues. Highlights of the garden at the moment include the progeny of last year’s radicchio that I let go to seed (it was so pretty - blue daisy-like flowers that just went on and on and on), which have miraculously developed perfect hearts! I want to let them go to seed because they were just so pretty last time, but we have a wonderful recipe for pumpkin, feta and radicchio salad so I will have to harvest at least some of it (and if the recipe is as good as it sounds I will post it here later). There are jonquils and daffodils scattered randomly everywhere, and the sweet peas are making their way up a trellis of old screen doors, and the poppies and snapdragons are covered in buds. The bare-rooted roses we bought about a month ago are covered in tiny shoots and the plum tree is about to burst into fluffy white glory.

Loyal readers (if there are any of you left), we realise we have let the blog slip badly, so we’ve made a pinky promise to update every day on alternate days. It’s cheesy, but maybe it will work. We just haven’t had much fertility related news, and not much other good news either - life isn’t bad, it just kind of is, which is pretty boring to write about. But then again, there are things that totally move us to excitement like great TV shows (current favourites are Battlestar Galactica and Deadwood) and gardening and food, so we will broaden the focus and hope that eventually some baby news materialises.