Slow rain

An afternoon to go planting and it’s raining. Fidgety, I found a few minutes with the plants that were going to go out…a row (where, I hadn’t decided) of Japanese peppers. They used to be very definitely third out of the Nepalese, Szechuan and Japanese peppers I’m trying to grow but they’re coming round on me with their soft almost floral leaf scent…I’m sure there’s a hint of white chocolate about it but my wife thinks I’m doolalley.

Rain slows me down. I can’t think so easily and when that happens I usually look to do something outside and I’m impatient at not being able to get on with it, but slowing down does make me look a little better. It’s all fruit and flowers in the polytunnel and out in the fields and at the moment, but with a few extra moments I notice the link between the leaves and the thin branch on these peppers, standing up well next to any of the more obvious loveliness.

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