The Front Yard (Sunday 23rd March 2025)

The Woodland Garden was worked on today for the first time by a landscape gardener, Bryn, who happens to live next door. Hopefully, he will be along regularly on Sundays. Today he worked on getting to know the garden by clearing the paths, and also took over managing the Driveway Patch (see first Extra) for the benefit of all the driveway users (including himself). I did some weeding in the Front Yard.

My Blip shows one of the ferns in the Fernery, amidst the aubretia. The second Extra shows some primroses that are a slightly different colour from those nearby, already blipped.

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Sunday 23.3.2025 (1722 hr)

Blip #4233 (#3983 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #000
Blips/Extras In 2025 #031/2665 + 032/100 Extras
Day #5479 (1442 gaps from 26.3.2010)
Lozarithm's Lozarhythm Of The Day #3372 (#3212 + 160 in archived blips)

Taken with Pentax K-50 (Red) and Pentax smc P-DA 18-135mm F3.5-5.6ED AL[IF] DC WR lens

Woodland Garden
Flora series

Woodland Garden (January-March 2025) (Work in progress)

Lozarithm's Lozarhythm Of The Day:
Katherine Priddy - Daybreaker (2025)
Simon Armitage wrote this poem, read it on the radio and invited listeners to compose a tune for it. Twenty-four hours later Katherine Priddy sent in her version. This is my choice from Cerys Matthews' show from this day.
I was listening to Guy Garvey on BBC 6 Music one night and Simon was a guest. He was reading a poem he’d written and said, on air, that he wanted a musician to set it to music, giving both myself and Radiohead as examples of people he’d like to do it. When the Poet Laureate lays down a gauntlet like that you’d be silly not to take it up! So the next day I composed a song around the poem and sent it to him and that’s how we first got talking about the possibility of doing something together with some other specially written poems. It was a really interesting process for me, as the lyrics have always been such an important part of my songwriting process, often coming before the melody. So whilst it was strange handing that part over, I actually really enjoyed the challenge of taking an existing set of lyrics and trying to capture my interpretation of the mood and intention through melody. It was definitely an act of trust on both of our parts, and a really beautiful thing to do with someone else who’s creativity I admire so much. - Katherine Priddy, for Backseat Mafia, 2025