Rosa sericea ssp. omeiensis var. pteracantha 21 April 2024

When I entered my oficina it was cold. It seems that after about 7 years my electric heater is not working. I thought to myself, “It could have waited a couple of weeks before it met its electrical maker.”

I went to see a film today at the VanCity Theatre friend, A Matter of Life and Death with David Niven, Kim Hunter and Raymond Massey.

I went home with the melancholic idea of having to go to perhaps London Drugs to buy my heater. It was and is sunny so I inspected my leafing roses and I noticed (ugh!) some black spot. I took out my spray bottle that contains water and copper sulphate and sprayed them. I went to my lane garden and uncharacteristically as this rose blooms on May 1 it had two blooms!

It cheered my up. I have scanned them and written this blog. This means that I can go to London Drugs with a smile on my face and buy the heater.

But there is always a tad of melancholy in me when I notice something wonderful in the garden. In yesteryear, before December 9, 2020, I would have run up to Rosemary on her bed and said, “Rosemary, guess what?”