Bye Davy Jones, Nifty Fifty and that feeling of mortality

Davey Jones

I was very sad to hear that Monkee Davy Jones died suddenly last week, I had the pleasure of meeting him once when he opened a fete in Bury St Edmunds in the late 1980's and I can only say he was an absolutely genuinely nice guy.

I have not seen anything detrimental about Davy on the news channels which in itself is a tribute to someone in the music industry.

I worked with his sister Lynda, for a few years and I know she will be absolutely devestated and our thoughts are with her.  It's quite sobering to think that he was so young by todays standards, makes you feel a little vulnerable doesn't it.


Some may remember that a while back that Fifty magazine asked if they could link to this blog and then promptly went bust, well they are back on the web but now known as Savista.  They haven't asked yet but who knows they might.

Just as an aside, and remaining on the age theme for a few moments longer, have any of you more mature gentlemen out noticed the alarming rate at which nasal hairs grow as you get older?  Flipping scary if you ask me.

Anyway, here it is post number 50, do I really have that much to say? If I do is it worth reading?  On second thoughts don't answer that.

Onto the garden, our mystery seed boxes are beginning to shoot, although it remains to be seen just exactly what is in each cell, as my beautiful young assistant insisted on mixing the seeds when we sowed our first  trays a couple of weeks ago.

In a couple of weeks I will post a photo and you can take turns at guessing which are which.

Walking stick cabage

Anyway, she did insist, and who am I to argue or say 'No' to her?

One of the more interesting seeds we have for this year is the Walking Stick Cabbage, that should stop the chooks!  It's supposed to go up to about 6 to 8 feet, 1.8m to 2.4m for those too young to remember proper measurements.

We will probably look at having another seed sowing fest in a week or two when it should start to warm up a bit.

Last year at this time we were in shirt sleeves and on Nanny Southwellski's birthday (25th March) we went for a picnic in the forest in shorts and tee shirts!

The herb bed is also springing back to life with a strong showing from the chives, thyme and both fennels, the parsley and mint are also showing signs of life, but no sign of the horse radish as yet.

I have box hedging to plant around the herb bed it came originally from a 6 pack of box hedging plants from the now defunct Focus DIY store and I managed to split it into 47 individual plants, Bargain!!

We rebuilt the polytunnel a couple of weekends ago and I am extremely happy to report it is still there despite some very strong winds of late.  The guys at work built me a new door for it out of some scrap wood I took in to work so that it can be made a little more secure this season.

Anyway, that is it for this one, save for this thought I will leave you with,

'What a wonderful life I have, I only wish I'd realised it sooner.'