Missed Them Again

It's Eid al Fitr - the end of Ramadan - we wish all our Muslim readers Eid Mubarak.

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Missed them again.

The Perseids that is. Though I will have a bit longer to try to catch sight of them. Weather conditions (cloudy) have meant that I've not been able to see any of the astronomical phenomena so far this year. Very frustrating.

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Snow has discovered yet another new toy... the watering-can.

We've had a very hot, very dry, couple of months. There was a day of thunderstorms and very, very heavy rain last week, but the ground was too dry to benefit from it. Most of it ran straight into the drains. So the ground is really dry, down at least 20cm deep, bone dry. This has meant watering the allotment, and also the flower borders on the garden. By hand. Using a plastic watering-can.

I'd finished watering the roses and put the empty can down, Snow was out with me and running around, chasing my feet, and scooting to and fro through the poster tube I'd got her to play in. Being an inquisitive little wotsit she decided to investigate the can. She managed to stretch up high enough to knock it over. She realised it was hollow and that was it - straight into it and rolling around in the dampness inside.

She poked her head out briefly to check where I was before ducking back in and wriggling around. Apparently this is enormous fun, because she kept doing it for 20 minutes. Who knew a watering-can could be so much fun??

Ze

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