The promised round-up entry has been delayed for a few days or so, for which I apologise. Meanwhile here’s another Dreams theme poem.
The world of me – Lois Rock
My indoor world
is a tumbledown house
of trash and treasure
all mixed together.
My outdoor world
is an overgrown patch
so oddly adorned
with flower and thorn.
But in my dreams
all shimmering bright
is a sunshine garden
of love and pardon.
For everyone who enjoys wildlife then here are two TV treats for us all.
Saturday sees 100 Years of Wildlife Films on BBC2 at 8.30pm. This two hour documentary has Bill Oddie exploring the changing trends throughout the past century, from shooting animals for fun to saving them from extinction.
A new eight part series The Nature Of Britain starts next Wednesday on BBC1 at 9.00pm with Island Britain. Alan Titchmarsh shows us the wealth of wildlife treasures that the British Isles has to offer.
Have a good weekend !
is the theme of today’s National Poetry Day and is also the title of this wonderful poem that reflects my lifelong interest in aviation.
Dreams
Dreams are filled with towering clouds
That burst across the sky.
Great balconies of lofty lift,
A million things to try.
Where mystic, magic, silky waves
Ascend in awesome might.
With endless streets and snow-capped peaks
And winds that never die.
Dreams are filled with wondrous flights
That journey far away.
That just go on, and on and on,
And on ’til dusk of day.
To twist, to turn, to spiral there,
perchance to touch the sky.
Or much too soon to tumble back
From where wild dreams would stray.
Dreams come and go. Dreams just pretend.
Yet dreams e’re grace the sky.
Such simple funful fantasies,
These things we deign to try
Yet in the end, one theme transcends
All mortal soaring thoughts.
When God unveiled this place called earth,
He meant that man would fly.
– Jack Greene, who published 21 poems on soaring (gliding). Sadly he died of cancer in 1981. His wife, Audrey, contributed this poem, and ten others, to the aviation poetry anthology Because I Fly edited by Helmut H. Reda.
One that is far more down to earth is Dream garden.
Lastly there is the classic Yeate’s poem He wishes for the cloths of heaven.
I’ve also done an entry on MrFlighty with this delightful children’s poem and a link to another gardening poem.
Last Sunday was a glorious day, being sunny and warm. There had been some rain a couple of days earlier which was just what I wanted.
For the first couple of hours it was just the birds that kept me company whilst I raked over a two foot wide strip alongside the road edge. I then planted plenty of Crocus, and a few Narcissi, bulbs before sowing grass seed over the area.
On an adjacent patch along the eastern edge I sowed some wildflower seed mixture and Nigella love in a mist.
A couple of weeks back a large tree on the main road almost outside the allotment site gates had toppled over. I noticed a log under the branches which I thought would look good on the plot. On my way back from the horticultural society hut I saw that it was still there so I borrowed a wheelbarrow and now have my first plot feature (photo to follow). I’ve planted some Daffodil bulbs that I was kindly given in a clump alongside one end of it and behind it I’ve sowed a packet of Briza maxima seeds.
After a long, leisurely lunch I went back for another couple of hours making the most of the good weather. This time I was pondering and pottering, going for a stroll around the site chatting with some of the neighbours.
Trevor has a plot, at the other end to mine, which is nearer the trees. He was saying that he’s seen a Green Woodpecker, a couple of Greater Spotted ones and two different birds of prey one of which is a Sparrowhawk.
Lorna on the other side of the road was telling me about the resident foxes, including Newton who’s very friendly and tame.
All in all it was a brilliant day and now I’ve got to wait to see how everything I planted and sowed grows…fingers crossed!
Uphilldowndale’s Poetic Discovery entry today reminded me to remind you that Thursday is National Poetry Day with the theme Dreams. I’ve found several wonderful poems which I’ll be sharing with you.
As I mentioned last week this is now the category for aviation related entries.
This superb photo is as good as it gets and is what I see when I turn my PC on being my new desktop picture.
If you want to know what the sky high view looks like from this classic aeroplane then have a look at this!
was a regular feature on my Flighty blog.
Recently they have tended to be mostly about terrestial TV science and nature programmes, such as the forthcoming Autumnwatch.
I intend to continue with these entries and they will resume properly the week after next.
I’m sure that most of you will have realised who Daffy is, and if not then to use her words…Hello, it’s Feathery Snowdrop! She said in her entry yesterday that she was happy to be here on WordPress blogging rather than have stopped. I commented that the blog world would be a poorer place without her.
Someone else who’s moved here from Platform27 and changed names is Cafecortado who was Cafeconleche.
Another WordPress friend is Uphilldowndale who usually writes fairly longish but highly enjoyable entries, complete with photos, as you’ll see when you read Do You Want Jam On It?
As I’ve done in the past I’ll do occasional entries where friends, and others, will get a linked mention for entries such as book reviews.
Have a good weekend.
it does, and when you do want it to it doesn’t ! It hasn’t rained here to speak of for at least three weeks and I want it to.
I’m waiting to sow some seeds but really want to do so after it’s rained. The weather forecast shows no sign of any so it looks like I may have to resort to borrowing a hose.
[It’s now Monday morning and absolutely pouring down! So much for the forecast!]
Last Sunday was a glorious day. I spent the morning moving six comfrey plants to the far corner of the plot beyond the compost heap. That means that my blackberry now has the area between that and the pallet patio to itself. It has grown noticably over the past two weeks.
Today has been another fine day so this morning I worked along the top, northern edge, alongside the roadway. I intend having a grass verge there along with crocus and dwarf narcissi 
Midway along that strip is a Common Hawthorn only a few inches tall which I shall leave for the present and see how it grows.
As I was packing up to come home I heard a gentle rumble in the air and looked up to see this wonderful classic aeroplane turning to land at nearby RAF Northolt.
In the bookshop yesterday I was looking for poems for National Poetry Day and found several gardening ones including this one.
The Vegetable Plot
Remember, remember in dreary September
The fate of the vegetable plot:
Where, all through the season,
For some puzzling reason,
Though weeds have grown, your seeds have not.
I started this blog a few months back just to write about my allotment, Plot 124.
I have now decided that it will be my primary blog, and include entries that previously would have been done elsewhere.
That means that FlightBuff, Flighty and BookBuffs have now become inactive, although I won’t be deleting them.
I shall be continuing with MrFlighty as my other active blog.
As you can see I’ve made changes to, and expanded, my Lawn Loungers listing of friends, and moved some links elsewhere.
Entries will now be posted into one of four categories. Plot 124 is for ones about the allotment. Sky high is for any aviation related entries. When I read or watch TV I invariably do so with a cup of tea and a few biscuits so relevant entries will be posted under Tea time. All others will be found in Off Plot.
Thursday 4th October is National Poetry Day with the theme Dreams. I think that is a really good subject, especially for gardeners.
Hopefully I will be doing an appropriate entry on all my blogs, including this one.
This entry that I did last year on BookBuffs would have been perfect for here.
I hope that on the day everyone will join in the fun by doing an entry, or at least commenting on other blogs that do.
The good weather continued throughout last week which meant that I was able to prepare an area for sowing some flower seeds and partly prepare a smaller area for some vegetable seeds. That I shall do in the next week or two.
Between the pallet patio and the compost heap are a handful of comfrey plants which I’ve left for the bees to make the most of the flowers.
Today I cut them right back adding it all to the compost heap and hidden away found this 
Lucky me as it’s a blackberry, which along with raspberries, are my favourite soft fruits. It can stay where it is and grow away so that hopefully next year there’ll be plenty of 
for me to pick and eat.
I was at the Horticultural Society’s hut this morning buying a few things including a packet of Green Manure Winter Tares which I shall sow on the vegetable patch area that I don’t intend cultivating until next spring.
Flighty's plot 