I’m near enough to be able to hear it, but today it was exceptionally quiet at 5am.The wind, which has been shrivelling gardens and fraying tempers for weeks had dropped. Even the cats were eating their breakfast quietly!
I stood on the front deck, listening to the quiet soughing of the tide.
And then I brewed some coffee and came in to do some work…
Ye gods and little fishes! A month since my last post! How can this be???
Well, I do have a better-than-usual excuse. We’ve been renovating! Oh! The excitement! The thrill of seeing glossy new floor paint, almost dry enough to move the furniture back. But not quite dry enough for a cat to walk on…
So, I’ll spare you the dreary details and show you some of the things that have survived the blustery wind.
I have several jasmines in the garden and have to say this one, Trachelospermum jasminoides is a cracker. Here, it’s growing from a shrub tub below the back deck and this year has extended several metres along the rail.I will have to give it a very severe “haircut” when it finishes flowering, but for now…we love it.
Maybe I’ll get back to this sad old blog a little more frequently. But don’t hold your breath, m’dears!
Moreidlethoughts Weblog 
It is waaaay too long since I have heard the ocean.
Loving your garden – and hoping that the renovations are over soon.
We have had wind too. Wind what flattens flowers and tears branches from the eucalypts. It is relatively calm at the moment, but is expected to return.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Knowing the struggle you have with cockatoos and water restrictions, I understand your relishing the calm moments.
Oh! That wisteria now has THREE more suckers behaving Triffidly…
LikeLike
Oooh on the wisteria front. They are a plant I am happy to see behaving triffidly.
LikeLiked by 1 person
um…perhaps not quite where this one is…
LikeLike
I wanna see the renovations…I wanna see the sea *starts wailing in a stupid fashion that is embarrassing for everyone to see and hear*
Sx
LikeLiked by 1 person
Hey! It’s not so long ago you were eating ice cream at Hartland! And you don’t want to see my house right now.You really don’t…how have we amassed so many things that we don’t really use or need??????????
LikeLike
I ask myself the same question nearly every day!
Sx
LikeLiked by 1 person
I wonder if you give yourself the same answer?
LikeLiked by 1 person
We’re much to far away to hear, or even smell, the sea – and even then, it’s only the North Sea, hardly the Pacific…
I love Trachelospermum jasminoides as well – a beautiful scent! Jx
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yes, the TJ is fabulous and in this town we see it almost everywhere; even as unruly “hedges”
This morning there is a light breeze, just enough to make the palms swishy and the wind chimes jingly…so no sea sounds.But I can see it!
LikeLike
Friend coming over in February…then off to the seaside with her. We might even organise a boat trip. And to think I used to go sailing most weekends…life changes.
Envy you that little jasmine…time to pluck up enthusiasm and hit the garden centres = much easier now that Leo has his electric scooter as otherwise Danilo and i were continually running over t the car with plants for his inspection, rather like high priests producing offerings which the local deity would turn down…
LikeLiked by 1 person
I should think those scooters are a boon to the partners of those who need them.I’ve had to push a wheel chair in a shopping mall and it aint easy!
Good luck with the garden centres!
LikeLike
To all you people who live in my opposite climate, please show us your spring and summer, to keep me going until my next spring and summer.
LikeLike
Well, EC beats me into a cocked hat for Spring beauty, but I’ll what I can find…This is our dry season and we’re warned that the monsoon will be late, so best not hold your breath, Joanne!
LikeLike
Love the Phallus australis with it’s lovely mauve heads.
Oh I do like to be beside the seaside, oh I do like to be beside the sea, sadly, I have to travel 20 miles for a stroll along the prom prom prom.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Hahah! Mitzi, I think you need specs, honey.That’s Phaius, with an “i” not phallus with an “l” But I know what you mean.
No brass bands playing tiddly-om-pom-pom here, thank goodness.Though I did once see a chap wearing sandals and socks.
LikeLike
only one month gone? bah! it’s been six for me — will make another attempt to hit it weekly, but you know how that works. also renovating (master bath), but slowly. started this project in MARCH. seems i’m just poking at this and that and yonder most of the time – but i’ll attempt to stay caught up.
LikeLiked by 1 person
And this reply comes from a borrowed laptop-I get mine back, all shiny and upgraded tomorrow.
And Things Have Been Happening here. The Man has re-surfaced almost all the floor and, while not perfect, it is a milklkion* times better.
I meant 1,000,000, but the skipping keyboard made it look very foreign and more impressive!
LikeLike
Gorgeous Swamp Orchid – even towards the end.
Can you walk on your glossy new floors yet?
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yes, but now we have so much dust swirling around it feels gritty on bare feet (I never wear shoes indoors!)
Still have the task of hanging pictures…
LikeLike
WordPress is hating me at the moment, so this is in the nature of a test comment.
I do hope it lands.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Finally! You went from spam to moderation, then vanished.All seems OK now.Well, at this end, anyway!
LikeLike
I hope it continues.
LikeLiked by 1 person
All good thus far. 🙂
LikeLike
I am checking my spam status again. WordPress at intervals takes a decided dislike to me.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yay! you came up honest and unblemished. (I did have to go through the log-in palaver myself, but that’s for something I did last night that required a re-set.)
LikeLike