Married life so far: Sunday picnic in the garden of The Old Bell with the ‘new’ whanau before a teary farewell as they continue their adventures to New York, Paris and Dubrovnik respectively (next Clan Gathering scheduled for Crimble 2012 in Whangarei); pizza by the river in the evening sun; a long, lazy breakfast before wrenching ourselves from the Old Bell; Wimbeldon on the tele on the hottest day of the year (not even one womble spotted); christening the ‘love mugs’ a sweet pressie from The Chicken Whisperer; two days of gardening where we weeded out the back and planted the lavender from the wedding tables out the front, visited West Six for Iris’, Penstemon, not-Foxglove (but can’t remember the name of it) and some gorgeous purple flowered perennials that tie it all together. Our local Garden Centre is fabulous and has a fish pond in the middle of it. On a Get More Soil trip, I found a STRAWBERRY bush for a tenner. And I had the perfect empty terracotta pot for it. Oh yeah and we survived an epic overhead storm complete with hail lightning and booming crackly thunder that took out a Gatwick control tower and several train lines. It was BRILLIANT.
Tonight we are off to Casa Wise for our First Social Engagement as Married Peeps and where we hope to finish the wedding cake because it winks and whispers ‘eat me’ every bloody time I open the fridge door.
So yeah, married life: recommended.
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You want a strawberry plant? I have many. Strawberry plants like roooooom, non-restrictive terracotta pots and rich, heavy, manury soil. Chop off any runners this year and next, let them run the year after for more new plants (strawberries plants get plum tuckered out after 3 or so years). Seriously, if you want more plants, I can provide, from original plants my mum gave me the year before she died five years ago. They are seriously delicious, some as big as golf balls.
Leftover wedding cake I cut, boxed, beribboned and sent everywhere, only them realising I hadn’t actuallt had any myself.
Your start to married life sounds mighty fine, I’m looking forward to starting mine.
sas Replied:
when do you move? you must feel a bit in limbo?
and YES to strawbs!
Sounds just perfect….the ‘clog’ from Holland can be hung outside with a plant of your choice hanging from it, so maybe a trip back to your garden centre is in order? Many Happy Years together you two beautiful people.
sas Replied:
I am think of a trailing perennial – something that will hang down from it.
I love the sunshine yellow colour – reminds me of you :)
Glad to hear that the whole married life package is going well! We just went straight to having kids; I think that we’d be a bit embarrassed to get married now. I think my daughter’s grandmother can deal with her daughter having a baby with a white man, but marrying me would going too far!
I noticed that the link in this post to your local garden centre is broken. While you’re fixing it up, I thought I’d cheekily ask if I could bribe you with a free soft fruit plant (it doesn’t have to be a strawberry) in return for a sly link to our plant nursery?