Here I am,back just
once more ,after which “Avies Small World” will be no more for
within a few short days I shall be leaving my old home for ever.
There is little left
now of the lovely kitchen garden,the Damson tree is cut down,the
strawberry patch is over grown and the bulldozers have laid waste to
everything else. Only the old apple tree has survived the developers
zeal and is heavy with ripening fruit .
A high fence has been
put in place to separate us from the orchard and now I can only see
it through a small window in my bedroom,truly,I prefer not to look.
My worsening health has
kept me from even the smallest gardening task,so I had thought to
watch my beloved Bee Garden become overgrown,but no, my sweet lovely
and remarkably kind young neighbour has kept it looking
wonderful,mowing the grass,edging the paths and battling with the
weeds. Bless her dear heart,she is a new mum,works part time and yet
still finds a little time to help me,I have no words to express my
gratitude.
About a month ago a
much needed knee replacement was cancelled because my health was not
good enough to permit surgery, my disappointment was profound,I cried
for about a week,,,,what a wuss!!!!
You see I really have
very little to cry for,thanks entirely to my dear son .Soon he will
be moving to a lovely country house in deepest rural Shropshire and
to my everlasting joy and amazement he is insistent that Pa and I go
with him.
He has found a
beautiful home for us all,there is even a ready built tree house for
Twiggy to compensate her for the one she lost when the Damson tree
was felled.
Eleven days from now I
shall be sitting in the garden of my new home and I can scarce
believe my good fortune, It is as if a good fairy gave me three
hundred wishes and honoured all of them.
I shall miss my small
world, but it is a world which exists now only in my minds eye and in
the many photographs taken over the years.
I shall miss my friends
whose kindness to me during the past months has been far beyond the
call f duty!
I shall make new
friends ,and with the help of a gardener to do the heavy work I hope,
by next Spring to be pottering about in my greenhouse sowing the
seeds of a new kitchen garden.
I hope to enjoy using
the wonderful range cooker in my new kitchen and I hope with all my
heart to begin a new blog,a blog which like this one captures the
days small triumphs and tragedies of an ordinary family.
It will be a true
country blog filled with the changing seasons and the joys that go
therewith.
All my happiness as a
child stemmed from living in the countryside,now,at last Avie is
going home.
