We now have four tomato seedlings. As there were two yesterday and one the day before, I calculate that by the end of April there'll be 1,073,741,824.
I found a few patches of ground ivy near the stream. It has attractive small violet-coloured flowers, and apparently "has numerous medicinal uses, and is commonly used as a tasty salad green in many countries." There is also a lot of silverweed on the edge of the tree planting, which has edible roots. But I'm not sure the community is ready quite yet to eat ground ivy, silverweed, chickweed or nettle soup.
The light brown of a gliding kestrel brightened a dull rain-bespattered morning. The sun appeared in the afternoon, as did my first swallow of the year. "One swallow does not make a summer", said Aristotle, who wouldn't have confused March in England with summer in Greece, but who thought that swallows, storks and kites hibernated. Gilbert White also considered the possibility that swallows hibernated, but mine would have wintered in southern Africa.
Between September 2010 and September 2011, I lived alongside an Anglican Benedictine community of monks and nuns. In November 2010, we moved from Broad Marston Manor near Evesham to Mucknell Abbey, a new eco-monastery near Worcester. This blog was about things that I observed and things that interested me. I have now stopped writing it. Thank you to all who were also interested.
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