Saturday 5 May 2012

Thrilled to be home!

It may just be for the weekend, but what a feeling being home is. Away from the overcrowded, busy, stinky, polluted, unfriendly, sullen, tiring (ok, you get the idea) city.
I wake up knackered but very happy this morning at a ridiculously early hour after about 4 hours sleep. I arrived in Manchester at 11.30 pm and my brilliant friend picked me up and drove me home. The bus was pretty good really. Quite comfy and the time soon passed with music and a book and just looking out of the window. It was full and I can see why at these prices. It was, a bit late (which is why my friend picked me up) but Friday bank holiday evening, what do you expect. I had to wander around the garden in the dark when I got it but it was a very bright moon (as has been explained here by 2 men and a little farm) and I could see bits and pieces. So by the time I had wandered, been so happy to be home and looked at everything, it was about 2 o'clock, so bed was long overdue. Of course I woke up at about 6 this morning with this overwhelming contentment. The sun was shining and not a hint of the rain that I expected. So all the curtains were opened and I had the joy of seeing my garden in daylight. I will take some photos later so that I can blog about them slowly over the next London stint (and remind myself how lucky I am).

The most wonderful sight was the Berberis tree that was identified by lots of you for me a few weeks ago. It is a glory of orange flowers and looks absolutely stunning. Most of my seedlings are still alive, although some look a little sun starved. I made the choice to leave them not in the sunniest window so that they wouldn't dry out, but some of them have a slight anaemic look. I will try a different place when I leave next time. My peas are peeping out of the soil outside and my roses are all growing, my new apple and plum tree has leaves, as do my fruit bushes and yes, my grass is long and weedy. If the rain holds off, I will get the chance to cut it today.

Today I will just enjoy being here and then later this evening, when my best friend finishes his nursing shift I will be taken out for my birthday celebrations (my birthday is next Friday but I won't be here then). My lovely friend had also left me a birthday present set out on my table, a lovely set of cheerful blue and white plates (I think he was fed up of my mismatched tableware) and some tea towels (again, laughed at my holy old towels).

So now to make the most of my time here. It is going to be a good day!

15 comments:

  1. You sound so happy to be home again. Just a weather warning though, I think the north is forecast for some frost tonight and Sunday night, don't forget to cover up anything tender.

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  2. I`m glad for you. Home is where your heart is. Yours is deffinatly destined for this country living. Enjoy your brake from work!

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  3. You sound so happy to be home you're bordering on giddy. Good for you! Not everyone has a place where they feel so centered and content. Enjoy your holiday and play in the garden. :-D

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  4. Sounds like bliss!
    Enjoy your weekend.

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  5. It must feel wonderful to be home again.

    Have a great weekend.

    Sft x

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  6. There's no place like home and you sound so happy to be home. Our gardens are so important to us and it's such a pleasure to wake up and look at them in the morning. It must be so hard for you to be so far away x x x x

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  7. datacreata beat me to it, I can totally hear the happiness in your writing. Enjoy your time, take lots of pictures so you can blog and relive the memories over the next few weeks and enjoy the supermoon (wink). Welcome home!

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  8. When you know what you want and the pleasure/satisfaction that comes with it. Who could ask for anything more. Kick those shoes off and enjoy

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  9. You sound like a different person when you post from home. Your happiness is catching, I want to jump for joy for you.

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  10. Half the pleasure of being away - is coming home again. Glad everything survived for you. Enjoy your birthday celebrations.

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  11. Glad you are back home, even if it's for a short time. As has been said previously, we are still at risk of frost in Rossendale (I've lived here all my life - too many years to mention). I NEVER plant or put outside anything tender until we get into June. I've tried soil warming stuff for leeks and cabbages.. might have got away with it, but we do have to be careful here.

    On another 'note'.. I love opera! Went to see the Opera Della Luna production of Don Giovanni at the Lowry last week. It was different, very funny (as Mozart intended) and both I and my daughter and daughter in law loved it!

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  12. Thank you everyone, yes, I feel like a different person when I am home too! Thanks for the tip Janet, I haven't put anything out yet, but I think I probably might have done if you hadn't said. I will keep things in until June, sounds like a good tip, it is especially cold here, but again, the sun is shining so I feel that I have been lucky this weekend. I have taken lots of photos to blog about when I am back in London.

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  13. I'm so happy for you! Hope that you enjoy every second of being home. Of course, you will! Not too long now & you'll be home for the foreseeable.

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  14. recharge and unwind!
    welcome home x

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  15. Such contentment when you are home! The feel good factor certainly kicks in. Just enjoy.

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