Thursday 23 April 2015

A Year and a Day

Hooray! Today I am celebrating the fact that my blog is exactly one year and a day old! 


It sounds a very romantic and significant period of time (and has nothing to do with the fact that my evenings this week have been too busy for blogging, so I couldn't post yesterday). 'A twelvemonth and a day' is a period which turns up in law, folklore and literature: in the medieval poem Gawain and the Green Knight Gawain is given a year and a day in which to return for the second part of the green Knight's challenge; couples made a promise for this period in traditional handfasting or marriage ceremonies; in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales a knight is given a year and a day to complete his quest; Steeleye Span's song All Around My Hat contains the lyrics ' All around my hat I will wear the green willow ... for a twelvemonth and a day'. So I rather like the magic of this length of time, and it seems fitting to celebrate my blogging anniversary now. 


My blog has meant a great deal to me over the last year, enabling me to express my interests in flowers, crochet, poetry, knitting, flowers, sewing, candle-making, cooking, flowers, gardening, home life, cooking, the seasons ... (did I mention flowers?) without boring my family senseless. Instead I've been able to meet lots of lovely like-minded folks who share my interests and have visited some really lovely, inspiring blogs. The excitement which I felt when I received my first few comments has never left me, and I love to hear about what everyone is up to. There's a lovely sharing sense of community in the blogging world which is very uplifting and encouraging.

So I've decided to share with you some flowery goodness to celebrate my Year and a Day anniversary. We've had wonderful warm sunshine and endless blue skies for days now, and as a result everything in the garden is bursting forth in a great rush of colour. You can almost see things growing. Unfortunately the weeds are bursting forth too, but let's not talk about that. Look at these tulips in our front garden - they're like great splashes of colour on a canvas.





And the marsh marigolds in our little pond are just about as bright a yellow as you can get. Where are my sunglasses?



My shed continues to give me great joy, as the flowers around it begin to bloom. The daffodils and tulips which I planted in pots back in November are looking wonderful now.




And growing up the front of my shed is my favourite clematis. I've forgotten its name, but it is my very favourite colour of all, somewhere between sky blue and lavender.



Here's to another twelvemonth and a day!


20 comments:

  1. Lovely flowers, nice post, we all love our blogs, each year I turn my blog into a book, I have 5 books and love each one, often reading them.

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    1. What a good idea! How do you do it? Physically print each posting out? Do share I would love to know :)

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    2. That does sound like a good idea - I'd love to do that too :)
      Cathy x

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  2. Congratulations on your year and a day of blogging. I found your blog just after I started blogging in January and find it so inspiring to read so thank you for your lovely posts. Stunning flower photos this time, what a colour feast for the eyes, beautiful. Jan xx

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    1. Thank you Jan - I've enjoyed your blog too. It's great, this blogging lark, isn't it?
      Cathy x

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  3. Gorgeous photos. I'm wishing you a very happy blogaversary, and many more happy years of blogging. I always enjoy reading your posts, I'm very happy to have found your space here. Wishing you a good weekend. CJ xx

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    1. Thank you CJ, I very much enjoy your blog too. Have a great weekend :)
      Cathy x

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  4. Congratulations and well done for keeping us all entertained for that time too! It has been lovely dipping into your day/life/garden and sharing a story or two - long may it last :)

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    1. A long time I hope! Thank you, Hawthorn! I love reading about what you get up to too :)
      Cathy x

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  5. Happy blogaversary! I love reading your blog and am looking forward to the next year :) Such beautiful flowers you've made me full of the joys of Spring! xx

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    1. Hi Helen, thank you! Aren't all the flowers gorgeous at the moment? It's lovely that spring's here :)
      Cathy x

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  6. Congratulations! You can tell you're much further south than I am; my clematis is nowhere near flowering just yet. Lovely to see your garden blooming xx

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    1. Thank you, Christine! It's fascinating that spring is further advanced down here. Blogging enables us all to see what stages we're all at in the seasonal cycle, doesn't it? Have a good weekend :)
      Cathy x

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  7. Happy Blogaversary and a day! Your garden is looking amazing and I could have done with your little pond yesterday - we walked to our local one to release our tadpoles, but when we did our recce recently we didn't realize that there would be nettles galore by now! I hope you're feeling the shed envy vibes too. Have a happy and blooming weekend. xx

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    1. Thank you! We did have frogs in our pond a few years ago, but none in the last couple of years - I haven't seen frogspawn in ages. Hope your weekend is a good one :)
      Cathy x

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  8. Congratulations! Blogging is both a lovely escape and a way of connecting with people. The most exciting thing is to meet fellow bloggers in real life - I've had a few meet-ups, ranging from Aberdeen to California.
    A shed is indeed a thing of joy.

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    1. Hi Linda, that does sound exciting to meet up with fellow bloggers! Yes, my shed is making me very happy :) Hope you have a good weekend.
      Cathy x

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  9. Congrats on the blog's birthday! It is so lovely having you in blog land!!

    Take care
    Anne (Crochet Between Worlds)

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    1. Thank you, Anne - it's lovely to be here! Have a lovely weekend :)
      Cathy x

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  10. Congratulations on your 1st birthday! I too have got so much more out of blogging than I ever imagined! It is good to find so many others too that have the same interests.
    Sarah x

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