Some little things of beauty

It’s been one of those weeks in which I feel like I deserve a medal just for showing up. At the risk of too much detail, I got up on Monday morning after that last post, went out for a jog in a thick fog, and no sooner walked in the door of home than I felt rather terrible, and felt steadily more terrible as the day went on, with a raging sore throat and cough developing. So I tried going to bed early again prior to the early-morning commute North, only to wake up at 2 am with a pain all around my head that result in throwing-up; a result of some kind of migraine/tension headache. I did my best with that, then went back to bed before getting up at 5.30 am for Sydney. Then the rest of the week contained a cough in which every involuntary heave was a small agony (never have I had a cough that hurt so badly), which did its best to keep me awake at night, and general exhaustion and unwellness. But here I am.

So for Friday, I just thought I might show you my new pot plants. I am excited to have some nice plants. I have a little courtyard, and I wanted something in it that would stay green all year, so these are some petite camellias. I had been to Bunnings twice after a particular pot, and they didn’t have any of the matching saucers both times, so I just picked another pot, which I like, but only when I got them home did I realise the pots were exactly the same colour as my fence. Oh well.

I'm stuck with the orange lattice unfortunately (I really dislike orange, I must say) and the rusting fence isn't my responsibility either. My old friend the concrete duck may or may not stay there.

The plants came with promising buds.

And I now have lovely flowers.