The sunflower I planted in our herb box finally came good and bloomed despite watching all its siblings go down to snail attack and losing all its leaves the same way. Not the largest sunflower I have ever clapped eyes on, but a success all the same; maybe a couple of inches across? I planted a good number in our first year in the house, some seven years ago and they all provided perfectly acceptable size flowers - on stalks at a few degrees off horizontal; decided at that point that the prevailing wind at the front is far too good a match for any but the hardiest plants and moved on to conifers and the like. They do great out there and even poor olive has recovered from losing half of his bodyweight to frost in the particularly evil winter; he's less of a classic shape now, but a born survivor. Think I may build him a little cover this winter though or he may begin to think I don't care..
Looked in on the new wine shop in town on the way past today; not to buy wine as I'm not one for that any more alas, but to check out the window display, which has caught my eye as it has been under construction. The installers made use of interesting wallpaper to shield the view of the public as the place was shopfitted, and now the same wallpaper, or tidier bits of it is draped artfully at the back of the windows giving a kind of ironic living room effect. The piece de resistance, however, is a selection of 1940s living room furniture, cabinets etc on which the wine is diplayed to the front; including an old record player on which some cans are constantly revolving as if in play. Very cool, or at least I thought so. The other window that has been catching my eye was also once an off licence, but is now being renovated for a purpose unknown. Over the past weeks I have peeked in as huge stone pillars and a whole wall of stone block was unearthed and cleaned to former glory. Imagine my horror today to see the two-by-twos going up around the pillars and in front of the stone wall...they are only going to cover it in plasterboard...?!! Some people shouldn't be allowed to take on creative projects, no doubt about it; I am now glued to the site in morbid fascination to see what further horrors are perpetrated before the fat lady sings... a video rental store? mobile phone emporium? another bleedin bathroom store?? Watch that space and weep.
Ahhh, see the tiny sunflower bending in the impending force five gale...
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