{"id":26357,"date":"2022-05-15T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-15T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=26357"},"modified":"2022-05-15T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-15T05:00:00","slug":"guesswork-sunday-15th-may-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2022\/05\/15\/guesswork-sunday-15th-may-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Guesswork – Sunday 15th May 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Guesswork<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s a lot of guesswork going on here. Ari doesn\u2019t know what his seedlings are supposed to look like and so can\u2019t tell the difference between his seedlings and the weeks. He has a horrible feeling that he might have pulled out some of his herb seedlings in his enthusiasm to weed around his herb bed. Mum was no help. She didn\u2019t have a clue either. She says if they wait long enough they will be able to tell, but by then the weeds will be taking over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Growing lemons<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Mum is worried about the lemons and we\u2019ve only had them a couple of days. The problem is that the advice sheet they came with has different information to the guidance that Dad found. Now of course, Dad is always right, or so we lead him to believe, but Mum doesn\u2019t know how much water to give them. She sat down with the lemon plants to discuss it, but I don\u2019t know if it was her language skills (she clearly knows none of whatever language the lemons speak) but they were certainly reticent on the subject. You can kill them by overwatering or underwatering. We need Goldilocks to help us work out when it\u2019s just right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cherry girl<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Me, I\u2019m just a cherry sort of girl. I\u2019m reckoning if I sit here long enough I can catch these cherries before the birds do. The problem is that I like them ripe and the birds are not so bothered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mind you, Mum would rather I sat here. I have been told in no uncertain terms that now that Mr and Mrs Duck have returned I am not to chase them. You know what it\u2019s like the minute someone tells you not to do something. After that your desire to do the opposite of what they want can become all consuming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Love<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wilma<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gardening seems to involve a lot of guesswork and Wilma isn’t sure that Aristotle’s guesses are always quite right.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,150],"tags":[63,12,58],"class_list":["post-26357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gardening-2","category-wildlife","tag-aristotle","tag-gardening","tag-wildlife","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}