All work, no play
Summer time, and the living is shitty.
So much to do: I spent an hour (well, 54 minutes) after work last night harvesting these onions. They’re flawless and huge – one of my best ever crops – but time is always against me.
I love being at my plot on a warm evening. It’s one of my favourite places to be. But the pleasure is always diluted by the paranoid clock-watching.
I should just give up and get my eyeballs glued permanently to the face of my watch. Then if I have another arm grafted on to my torso, I may be better equipped for the modern world.
I gave my watch away 2 years ago to a neighbour whose house burnt down and she lost pretty much everything.
I’ve never replaced it – quite liberating! and I don’t have that gardener’s tan white stripe around my left wrist 😉
Celia
August 2nd, 2011 at 10:17 am
Priorities, boyo. Gardening vs most things, gardening wins.
August 2nd, 2011 at 11:30 am
Rainman
I’ll second that. TV is crap just lately, I can’t get into the book I’m reading so the garden wins.
I too don’t bother with a watch.
Jane
August 7th, 2011 at 4:13 pm
they are great onions…and do I see gherkins there too??
August 18th, 2011 at 9:59 pm