Sunday, July 27, 2025

The signs of an obsessive

Usually if we arrive home from holiday in the daytime we'll have a cup of tea and I'll sit and read emails. Yesterday we had a cup of tea in the garden after I'd checked my plants! I am becoming a true gardener.

Everything in the garden coped without me.

Alexandre Girault

Bring me sunshine

The poet's wife

A white rose

Wollerton Old Hall

All except the white one from David Austin. 

And Husband's plants are doing fine too.



So many figs on so many trees.


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Came home to find letters inviting us both to take part in a Our Future Health research project. We both signed up even though it involves going for a blood test. It's the UK's largest ever health research programme and it aims to help prevent, detect, and treat diseases earlier. It's not a personal health check but a study on all the different factors involved in maintaining good health. I'm sure the questionnaire was carefully designed to avoid making people feel bad about the amount of exercise they do or don't do, but I couldn't help feeling a little judged. But that's just me. One of the mental health questions was, "Do you always feel guilty about everything?" Um, yes, of course.

We each get a £10 voucher at the end though!


9 comments:

Debra She Who Seeks said...

OMG your roses are gorgeous!

jabblog said...

Lovely garden flowers and produce. Doesn't everyone worry all the time??

Liz Hinds said...

Thank you!

Liz Hinds said...

Apparently not!

Anvilcloud said...

Put together, you folk have a decorative and also functional garden.

acorn hollow said...

Your garden is doing amazing!!! I came home yesterday and went right to my garden. I had my husband home to take care of it but I wanted to be sure lol.
It sounds like a good research to get into. But I am with you yes I have felt guilty about everything.
Cathy

Boud said...

I used to think hm, this garden did fine in my absence, what does that say about my gardening skills??
Will you feel guilty about taking the $$? Just askin.

Chris said...

The best obsession to have I think! Beth eich gwersi Cymraig?

Ann said...

Everything in your garden looks great.