Staycation and help the economy

There has never been a better reason for staying put here in England. Covid 19 has been rife here but in some European countries it has been awful. I for one wouldn’t want to be in some far off foreign country and developing the virus when far away from the NHS. Say what you like we have the best health service in the world. So basically what I am saying is holiday at home. The risk of hospitalisation abroad is to great, stay here in England is to me the sensible thing to do! The other side is from an economic standpoint. Stay at home and help our economy, many people are going to be out of work when this pandemic shakes out! If we all start swanning off to foreign climes and spending our hard earned dosh  abroad there will be less growth here at home. 

Now it may sound churlish of me to say stay in Blighty but please remember your neighbour. That is a metaphoric neighbour, a holiday in Barnsley instead of Barcelona May not have the same cachet but in this day and age of Covid 19 a Staycation has a lot going for it.

The Americans scare me

I know I try not to do foreign politics but having just read that the figures for Covid are rising wholesale in the USA and Donald Trump is saying they are the dying embers of the problem I question what’s going on?  Worldwide the numbers are rising yet we here in the uk are behaving like it’s all over! 

Fed up

My life is ebbing away during lockdown! I don’t get out of the house and I cannot get into our garden, wheelchairs and steps don’t mix. The getting down them would be relatively fast but the getting back up there lies the problem. Or more correctly there lies me at the bottom of the steps!! Today our garden has been alive with birds, baby’s begging for their mums to feed them other recently fledged trying to learn how to land on the feeders or even on the clothesline before trying to negotiate the scary feeders. Lockdown has stopped us leaving the confines of the house but today I am fed up, I hope tomorrow is a better day 👍

Geraniums are first to bloom

Geraniums have started to bloom 

Time flies

It has been ten days since I last posted so first off an update on the plant’s,  Heather is watering everything daily and sometimes twice a day. The Geraniums have flowers and some Livingstone Daisies are  poking their heads above the compost. So all good in the flower department. Today has been a mixed bag. I woke up feeling naff and have slept most of the day waking only for fluids and chats to Hev. Now 10:45 pm and Heather wants to settle down for the night I am wide awake. So goodnight world let’s hope for a better tomorrow 👌

Wheelchair gardening

I have to be hoisted in and out of the wheelchair as my legs and most of my body no longer works, S when it comes to wheelchair gardening I actually cannot do any. But Heather does the graft and I do the buying and when the purchases arrive I supervise. Today Heather planted out three Geraniums that arrived by post yesterday. eBay is my go to place after being ripped off by a big plant supplier the plants they sent out as mature plugs were so tiny the must have been terrified to be out alone in the big wide world and to be honest out of 108 plugs less than half survived. The eBay purchases have all come from individual sellers who love plants and who have taken photos of the very plants I have received. Today’s ones had flower buds and we could make out two of the colours. We have three more arriving soon all a deep red from another eBay seller. 

The plug plant escapade was a learning experience and future purchases will be eBay based or from garden centre visits when I feel brave enough to leave the safety of home. The way it’s looking I won’t be going out until the new year, notice I am not specifying which new year! So Heather is the muscle and I am the brains of our gardening escapades. Here’s to all the eBay suppliers of flowers.👍

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