It’s been a long time since I wrote a post here. Basically, I’ve been busy doing other things – writing in other places about other things – but after a week where I had an offer accepted on a new house (although I’m now waiting on a chain…), I thought that I would take the opportunity with a ton of optimism to go and buy a load of bulbs.

Fingers crossed that the house becomes my new home at some point in the next couple of months, and that the chain completes swiftly, and that my surveyor doesn’t discover that it’s built on a sink hole, between a nuclear reactor and a volcano.

Theres a lot of hoops there, but I thought that I would plan ahead a little. The new house’s garden is blank. There’s no planting areas front or back – it’s all entirely sad lawn, scattered with child play apparatus (slide, swings, see-saw) and well trodden paths that have worn the grass through. There’s also a curiously fenced in patio – which made me wonder if that was for people who wanted to sit outside without feeling like they’re outside, or for people who like to stare over their neighbour’s fence?

I have plans. That fence is coming out for starters.. but with a house completion that will hopefully make that my home by Christmas, it means that buying bulbs now, and storing them in a cool dry place, is probably worthwhile.

Today I picked up a big pot of Daffodil bulbs (one of those fill-a-pot jobs, where they then donate a % to Marie Curie), a bag of 10 mixed Tulip bulbs, a pack of 12 Crocus Vanguard bulbs and a pack of 12 Allium Caeruleum bulbs.

Jumping the gun perhaps, but if everything falls through, or it gets well into December and the chain still hasn’t moved, then I’ll just pot them up and allow them to grow into nice cheerful pots of colour until the chain completes.