I spotted this fill-the-blanks meme first on The Captive Reader though Claire had got it from Cornflower Books where it appears in celebration of the Chelsea Flower Show which has been on in London this week.. Thanks to both of them -- it was fun to do!
Early this morning as I was Untying the Knot, I stepped out of The Locked Room into the garden and bent down to touch A Wreath of Roses.
As dawn broke and I took in my surroundings I noticed several things: Sunflower was struggling due to Damage
, The Dud Avocado had been dug up beside The Sugar House
with A View of the Harbour, but with help from The Laughing Policeman and knowledge gleaned from The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
, I was able to bury it with The Necessary Aptitude.
Later, Roseanna popped in to take a cutting or two; We Have Always Lived in the Castle, she told me, but she pointed out that we were A Far Cry from Kensington.
Taking a well-earned rest from the weeding and chatting over the wall with The Children Who Lived in a Barn from next door, I mentioned A Stranger in the Family and remarked that he was Kind of Cruel, but then, Careless in Red, we said Farewell Night, Welcome Day, and I went back to do a little light pruning.
My garden was once The Plains of Cement, but tending it is a joy and a Magnificent Obsession.
Not my garden, sadly, but the Parc Floral de Haute Bretagne, where I went for a picnic yesterday.
Perhaps you might want to do one of these yourself -- you can tweak the text a bit to fit, and, though it's supposed to be books you have read 'this year', I've taken that to mean 'within the last year', which gave me a bit of leeway.
