
In Mount Sion, the smell of cut grass and the sound of a lawn mower is a sign of Spring. It is a warm afternoon when people want to be out of doors. As I move out of earshot I hear a woman's carrying voice. Its owner is sitting on a bench in The Grove talking on a mobile phone. You rarely hear anyone speaking quietly into a mobile in the tone of voice they might use to someone sitting beside them. She must be 100 a yards away. My how her voice carries! Another sign of Spring perhaps.
An unexpected present from Geoff is a collapsible plastic bucket designed for growing potatoes but intended in this instance for carrots. Now I remember him telling me about his method of sowing carrots in these bags when I told him of my problems with trying to growing in the soil. This year, I am determined, will be the year of the carrot.
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The Year of the Carrot - now, that's a grand title for a poem, I think.
Or, perhaps, a murder mystery.
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