The badger twins are getting very annoying. If they don't find any leftover bird food, they go on the rampage. It sounds like chucking out time out there around midnight. What to do?
The wild marguerites have gone...well, WILD! They sway in huge drifts all over the paddocks and bits of the garden which I have ceded to the weeds! As you can see, this border in the foreground, is composed almost entirely of Mare's Tail and Marguerites....with a bit of planted cornus and a choked out Euphorbia or Wiegela or two! It's hopeless! Still, the new borders ( pics to follow) are coming on nicely. I now just mow a path through the paddocks and round the pond. It looks as though some taming is going on, but really that's an illusion! And how come those weeds do so well on NO water when all the stuff I've introduced at considerable cost needs cosseting?! Oh, it's OK, I know the reason...but how irritating is that?
This is the voice of the grumpy old woman in the woods....
Meanwhile, the BG has established that his thespian friends would like to do another Shakespeare in the barns this summer. Twelfth Night, we think...The BG would actually like to stage a production of 'Withnail and I' ( we bought a copy of the script)...Trouble is, he can do ALL the voices so well ( and I mean REALLY do them...superb Danny/Uncle Monty) that he wants to do ALL the parts...not because he is greedy but because his reverence for the text is such that it would pain him to hear less naturally-gifted imitators bog it up...I think he'll just have to do a recording. He has been very fortunate to meet a recording studio genius via Alceste...and Steve is lending him microphones and all sorts over the summer. It also helps me, because the publisher would like to release a CD of me reading the poems in 'Pignuts and Peacocks'...nice to record it on site..maybe with Mr P giving it large in the background!
Your son clearly has worthier things on his mind than GCSEs! Love the idea of Shakespeare in a barn in the back garden. A terrific plan... though I’m a bit worried about the female voices and visions of a Monty Python-esque interpretation!!
ReplyDeleteWhereas Withnail and I – never did really GET that and its cult status I'm afraid.
I rather like your drifts of marguerites. They're around here too on the grass verges. One of those reassuring signs of summer.
It's alright! Some of the fellow thesps are girls!
ReplyDeleteHave to confess to being a Withnail fanatic and have inculcated the BG accordingly..although, in the classic manner of youth, has appropriated it and its 'discovery'....
I directed the young thesps in a fab performance of my adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream last summer...they were remarkable.
I'm relieved!
ReplyDelete