Sunday 23 March 2014

The vanishing point







This is my vanishing point too for a little while.
We're off to see our son in Japan
and when I come back I will be roku juu.

If it is your birthday soon,
this is for you -




Saturday 22 March 2014

Missing you already



Tall Cat comes in twice a day now.
Will he miss us when we're gone?

Perhaps we can find a Japanese cat to adopt.



Monday 17 March 2014

Sitting under a magnolia tree






This weekend
 I sat under a magnolia tree.

I must have sat there for at least two minutes

Then I thought, I really must get a picture of this
beautiful tree and I got up to fetch my camera.

I sat down again under the magnolia tree.

Then I saw another sycamore seedling
(not pictured)
and I got up to pull it out.

I didn't sit down again.

It's a character
flaw.

Wednesday 12 March 2014

The scarves are on the line



Once I'd unhooked the clematis and given the line a wipe
I was able to hang out the first washing of the year
and because I have been well-schooled by magazines, blogs
and even cookery books (I'm looking at you Ms Raven)


I knew better than to put out any old uncoordinated laundry.





I washed my scarves and lamented just a little bit
the lack of a shepherd's hut behind the washing line.



and indeed, the lack of a meadow



 and the beautiful Sussex High Weald
behind the shepherd's hut.

Mr Raven, otherwise known as Adam Nicholson
came to give a talk about the Shiant Isles 
(bequeathed to him by his father Nigel Nicholson)
in the Primary school recently.
I met him another time at an Open Day for Perch Hill.
He was taking the money at the gate
They work hard.

I really can't begrudge them.

Monday 10 March 2014

The weekend












The air was of no temperature at all. 
Skylarks upscaled at our approach.
There was no wind.
Motionless ewes stood distant, expectant, unruffled.
The sea flowed innocently over the sand.
Two swans beat and beat their wings triumphant,
the bother of becoming airborne nearly forgotten.
A castle stood untroubled by its past.
The niche needed no embellishment.
Four daffodils could be spared
for the table.



Tuesday 4 March 2014

What ho!

Bertie Wooster: Ha! Do you ever feel like opening the window and shouting
that the world is a wonderful place Jeeves?
Jeeves: Erm. . .no, sir.
Bertie Wooster: Or dancing in the street, scattering rose petals on the passers-by?
Jeeves: Only infrequently, sir.


'There is only one cure for grey hair.
It was invented by a Frenchman.
It is called the guillotine.'

I am going to see this.

Hoping to disprove another of Plum's utterances that 
everything in life that's any fun is either immoral, illegal or fattening.

Toodle-pip!




Monday 3 March 2014

Shibui



A rainbow mixture of tulips from the supermarket
in my Susie Cooper Eyelash jug with a tiny chip in the rim.


Rainbows from the prisms on the window sill.

SHIBUI.

Simplicity,
implicitness,
modesty,
silence,
naturalness,
everydayness,
and
imperfection.