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[endlessrarities]

Aargh!  March comes in like a sabre-toothed tiger, and hangs around like a woolly mammoth.

It's a garden post today.  I'd hoped I could give you a progress report on the front flower bed, which was looking decidedly woolly itself before I started work on transforming it into something presentable.  I was due to finish weeding it this weekend, but this now seems very unlikely, because this is how it looks today:-

 

The straggly rose bush at the right hand side shows where work has stopped for the moment....

Another hellebore photograph now, just to prove that I haven't filched an earlier photograph to exaggerate:-
 

 

Now the multi-million dollar question is:  at what point do I cancel horse-riding???

Anyway, everything's relative.  After the recent horrific earthquake that shook Christchurch, New Zealand, the seismic forces that shape this world have done it again and put on a repeat performance in North-East Japan.

It never fails to frustrate me that while the Disasters Emergency Committee pulls the stops out to air appeals asking for public support when these natural disasters taking place in the developing world, they don't do a similar thing for 'rich'  countries.  I think it's important to offer financial support to those caught up in such terrible events, wherever they live, and whatever the size of their home country's GDP.  I'd like to think that where the situation's reversed, they do the same for me.  But for someone who isn't really happy about carrying out financial transactions on the internet, it's virtually impossible to do this.  It's just a shame that the Post Office, which regularly hosts the appeals for the DEC, can't host a regular account which the public can support on a more regular basis...

My thoughts go out to all those who are caught up in these hurrendous events.
 

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[ooxc.livejournal.com]

That's a lot of snow - iIshall now stop grousing about the rain and wind here

[rowangolightly.livejournal.com]

Oh no! That was exactly what we were talking about, the poor flowers thinking it was Spring and then getting all frosted by late snow. Poor babies.

And yes, I hear you on the disaster thing. I can't help but think, "hey, nobody's stirring themselves to take care of my disaster" which may be horrid of me since I'm technically speaking 'safe' but still; charity begins at home, I think. Yes, I'm horribly sorry for them but all I can do is pray and well-wish.

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

Your poor garden! I heard the forecast of snow for Scotland and hoped that it would confine itself to the hills -- but it seems it didn't. :(

I'd better not mention that it's a lovely sunshiny spring day down here in London then.

[roaming.livejournal.com]

That's okay, the US is stepping up to the plate for Japan here. Everyone is sending something. (Can you imagine, if ALL of us just sent $10 lousy dollars (@ 1.85 pound sterling, I'm guessing), how much it would add up to!)

Wow. You got snow. And here in snowy New England, it's sunny and nearly spring like today and tomorrow. What a reversal! In our garden, we let the fall leaves stay there through the winter, we don't rake them up like everyone does. They insulate what's under them. We leave them there until the first weeks of April, because March can fool you. It's sunny now, but we could still have snow the beginning of April. Anyway, we find that the protected/insulated new growth comes back stronger and with a vengeance once we rake away their "roof."