Meet Anita

Yes folks, I am on to my favourite subject again.....manure. This time I thought that you would like to meet the producer. She is a very fat and dopey donkey and John has become her best friend.

We had another phone call from Marie -Lise ( we are now on first name terms) asking if we needed any more manure. This time I think I have made it clear that we will take whatever Anita and her friends can manufacture - forever!! Anita has done us proud and provided two stables full. Unfortunately I have a trapped nerve in my neck; I'm hoping pills and 10 sessions with the chiropractor, starting Friday, should get it sorted. However, whilst I am not really very incapacitated, we decided that shovelling manure was not a good idea, so poor old John has nearly a week's work on his own. As the temperatures remain in the thirties he is restricted to collecting 3 loads a day. Whilst Anita is very obliging she has deposited her "gold dust" in a rather inaccessible site so that our cement moving car has had to metamorphose into a 4x4 manure shifting vehicle.

You may be thinking why is she bothering as this year's drought has so severely devastated the garden. However us gardeners are ever the optimists and next year will be better!

As you will appreciate one way and another we have not made much progress on our scheduled jobs. Also, we can see that August and September will be a whirlwind of guests and socialising. Wish there were more hours in the day!