"I'm A lonely little Petunia in an Onion patch"

Hello everyone,

Firstly a belated Happy New Year to all our readers.  It's been quite a few months since I last updated the 'ol blog but one of my New Years' resolutions is to write more blog posts and actually remember to publish them.  So fingers crossed I'll get round to writing this blog more often rather than being distracted by sowing, growing and cutting flowers, and well..... the chaos that is life in general.

This year has already started at lightning speed.  Orders flying out the door, numerous wedding flower consultations and bookings, and the selecting of 'things to grow' this year and we're only in mid-January.  This year is set to be a cracker and I can't wait to tell you all about the lovely plants and flowers we will be growing on our flower plots in the months to come.  I'm useless at remembering to take photos but I hope to have plenty of pics for you to look at as and when things start to grow.

As today has been the nicest day of the week I've managed to peak my head out of the polytunnel and do some chopping and weeding and general winter tidying on the flower plots.  Having spent quite a while in the polytunnel of late, whilst it's been raining, I quite often find myself singing along to silly little tunes that pop into my head.

I think it must be the tippy tap tippy tap of the rain bouncing off the plastic sheet of the polytunnal roof which sends me into some sort of trance and my mind wanders.

A self seeded Calendula in flower in
the tunnel in January.  Yes, January!

Now dear readers, there has been this song (well, more of a little ditty really) that has been going round and round in my head.  It's a song about "A lonely little Petunia in an onion patch" and how the poor Petunia spends her days crying and sobbing.  The trouble is I can't remember the rest of the words so I inevitably end up just 'noo neee noo'ing' my way through the rest of the tune. 

So whilst my version of the 'lonely little Petunia' has an awful lot of 'noo nee noos' and la la laaaas in it, the worm song on the other hand I seem to know off by heart.  So here it is (just in case you're wondering.....)

Nobody likes me, everybody hates me,
think I'll go eat worms...
big fat juicy ones, little slimy skinny ones,
hope they don't have germs!

Nobody loves me, everybody hates me
Think I'll go and eat worms
Long ones, short ones, fat ones, thin ones
See how they wriggle and squirm

I bite off the heads, and suck out the juice
And throw the skins away
Nobody knows how fat I grow
On worms three times a day
Ohh...nobody loves me.

And, on and on it goes until you drive yourself crazy with it.  Please don't blame me for this song!  I once heard Michael Ball sing it when he was doing his Sunday lunchtime Radio 2 stint, and well it stuck.  So blame him.

Hmmmm.... I think I spend a bit too much time on my hands.

Anyway, enough of silly little songs that I sing to myself whilst tending to the flowers and plants here on the Brecon Blooms flower plots and here's to a wonderful 2012 to everyone.  Hope you all have a great one.

All the best.

Cathy

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