In my rhyme
At this time
Let us see
Brevity!
For my muse
Will refuse
To come near,
Or appear,
So that I
Must get by
Without much
More than such
As there be
Currently
Showing right
In your sight
On this page
To engage
Your review
And to do
What it can
For the plan
On each day
To display,
Flowing free,
Rampantly
For your glee …
Poetry.
Among the amusements of the past few days, as previously mentioned, has been the need to assess five gardens in various distant suburbs. During this exercise I discovered that my battery would not charge sufficiently to start the car. As it happened the first such experience was on a steeply sloping driveway, and I avoided crashing into the garage door by frantic last-minute braking as soon as the engine took. Thereafter it was necessary to find a downhill at each new site. Such fun. Fortunately I have had a lot of practice in that art in my youth, and I’m glad I wasn’t driving an automatic.
The three-year-old battery has been diagnosed as suffering a terminal illness (shrieks of mirth) and I have now replaced it at a quite shocking charge (more shrieks).
Anyway, here are some other pictures of the cramped little gardens viewed.
(P.S. Battling to get pictures in, for reasons unknown. *sundry well-chosen expletives*)
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The gardens look like parks.
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They actually do.
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Lots of green. Lush green! You don’t seem to need my drought-tolerant plants. Everything is thriving! Your trimeters weren’t cramped, just well chosen!
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Doesn’t look at all autumnal, does it?
The trimeters are certainly cramped – they’ve just blown up with pride!
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Sheesh! Gardens….compass needed I reckon.
Yes, those sloping Natal driveways. Had to negotiate one serious example when I last ran Comrades. Almost burnt out the clutch. Scary stuff.
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These are beautiful parks, Col. It must have been hard to choose between them. Glad you were able to stop the car from destroying it, yourself, and the garage door. You wouldn’t have been very popular with the house owner, or with MBH either. 🙂
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Fortunately it was an advice rather than a judging session. Yes, I certainly took a bit of a chance with that emergency start. It was so nice to put the new one in and be able to start wherever again.
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Those are not gardens.
They are estates! So beautiful.
Sorry about the battery Col – cars do work out to be quite expensive!!
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Surprisingly large!
This makes the second battery within a few months. Most annoying!
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These are magnificent photos of a garden I’m very envious of… would love to sit around there…
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Being able to take a country walk in one’s own garden is certainly an enviable privilege!
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Oh, how I would love to just go and sit under that tree and be one with nature. What a beautiful garden. It looks like a little forest! Great pics and post Col! *hugs*
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The particular gardens we visited then were amazing mixes of lawn and forest – one with its own stream as you may see. There were also parts with beds and flowers, but I was concentrating on the space aspects.
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With beauty like that I won’t even worry about the space. Lovely photo’s Col. 🙂
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Thanks!
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You are very welcome. 🙂
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Shocking when a battery is terminal! 😯
Gorgeous gardens.
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In fact, one can be positive that it is totally negative! Re-volt-ing, and it d-amp-ens one’s spirits!
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You be de master! 😀
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Well, I can certainly claim to have lost a mast well out to sea – not fun at all! 🙂
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Lovely! Sorry to hear about the car – mine once broke down nine times in four days ~ argh! Knocking on wood, my current lovely has been a marvel of working parts. Thanks for the pictures – lovely! Cough – as was the poem, of course! (got caught up in the car and the vistas).
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My patch of grass is looking sick compared to those lawns.
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It helps being a bit away from the coast!
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Those gardens aren’t cramped at all! You should see ours 😕
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Those gardens are quite exhausting to walk round, actually!
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