MY FRIEND JEAN is of my parents' generation...raised in the PEAKS of DERBYSHIRE, the weather down south does not require her to ever wear hat or stockings or gloves...riding her bicycle with her terrier dog perched on her sholder as a child, prepared her for the rigours of these years on sticks...i see her sometimes peering from the shelter, anticipating my approach and conversation...and if there is space on the bus we usually sit together...SIT DOWN AND BEHAVE YOURSELF she enjoys saying to me as no doubt she says to the gentlemen at the Sailing Club where she goes each morning preparing coffees and biscuits...and sometimes she tells me of another person who has POPPED THEIR CLOGS......Hmmmm...JEAN...86 years old......

 

 

 

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golden goji hermitage

21st/October/2014

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THE TWIGS AND CUTTINGS AND BRANCHES HAVE ACCUMULATED SINCE LATE SUMMER'S START ON TIDYING THIS "WILD" "HERMITAGE" GARDEN OF MINE TO THE EXTENT THAT IT WILL MAKE A WONDERFUL BONFIRE FOR "GUY FAWLKES" NIGHT IN ABOUT THREE WEEKS TIME. After November 5th i aim to keep the site of the bonfire and have a permanent sort of "FIRE PIT" situated as it is near the renovation project of the Garden Bench under an arbour of the Bay Tree and the overarching brambles and ivy and honeysuckle...of course if the rain of recent days persists into November the bonfire will not catch enough to burn through...

...this afternoon, after 2 hours in the garden and having prepared the vegetable mash for supper, i lay on the sofa watching the rain drops multiply on the window and listening to the chanting of KRISHNA DAS. The sky was just a light grey blanket of clouds...no scuddings as of other afternoons and evenings and no summer sun when i would bask in the warmth until the high hedge at the bottom of the garden intervened.
At present i can almost adopt the natural rhythm of watching the dawn break when I rise to practice yoga and sit... AND go to bed after supper soon after it gets dark. Watching the sky and the clouds and the waving branches and leaves of trees in a breeze is refreshment and fulfilment enuf......   In the U.K. one would spend a lot of time in bed adhering to the rhythm of day into night and night into day for it to govern ones activity......But at this time of year it makes for an interesting and natural pattern for ones life...

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GOLDEN GOJI HERMITAGE

12TH/OCTOBER/2014

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