Category: Frog ponderings

that I’m doing on A sort of Plot A to Z continues with the letter F.

I started blogging as Flightbuff doing posts about my lifelong interest in aviation, and it wasn’t long before fellow bloggers started calling me Flighty.  It’s a name that I gladly adopted and, wherever possible, have used it ever since, along with my now familiar picture.

My mother was a passionate gardener who loved growing flowers, and I was her willing, if not always too helpful, assistant as a young child. I live in a flat and always regretted not having a garden.  Taking on the plot has proved to be one of the best things that I could have wished for.  Since doing so I’ve grown lots of flowers, which has bought back plenty of fond, if somewhat now faded, memories.

Since taking on the plot my interest in wildlife has increased immeasurably and I do all I can to encourage and nurture it. I think that of all the various creatures that I’ve seen one of the most memorable was young Frog Newton.

He inspired the fun Frog ponderings posts thanks to Glo (Porcelain Rose),  who has kindly given me this Fun & Facts Award for this post.

Looking back one of the very best aspects of blogging has been all the good friends, long standing to quite recent, that I have become acquainted with.  With some I chat on the phone now and again, email regularly and exchange cards and presents. I really couldn’t want for better friends even though I’ve only ever met a couple of you!

Happy gardening!

[Click on any thumbnail to see a larger image, and post edited August 29 to include Glo’s Fun & Facts Award]

Not surprisingly I’m not really in the mood to do an entry as I would normally do on a Sunday.

It’s been a typically wet Easter so far, although it’s not actually rained today so far, so I’ve not been plotting since mid-week. I had a look round this morning and was pleased to see my first lot of potatoes now showing, as were some onions and broad beans. Hopefully I’ll be able to do some work there tomorrow and then I’ll do a plot entry telling, and showing,  you how it’s all doing and looking.

I’ve been mostly mooching the past couple of days drinking  too many cups of tea and having eaten all the chocolate biscuits.  I watched, and enjoyed, Finding Nemo yesterday.

I’ve also been reading Empire of Sand by Robert Ryan,  which is proving to be an absorbing story.

One item of sad news is that something, a fox I would guess, clearly took exception to Daisy Duck as I found her on the plot with her head chewed off!

On the plot most of the daffodils have now finished but the window box is still looking good, and  I particularly like the mini-daffs down in the left-hand cornerI think that I shall move most of these bulbs out onto the plot later on and go for more mini-daffs and some hyacinths next year.

I want to thank everyone who commented on my last entry. It’s one that perhaps, on reflection, I shouldn’t have done  but  I’m grateful to you all.