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As with the moon, so with the night. Took a trip to Kilmore in the south of Ireland with P, Slant (in the hood), my old friend D from down under plus his baby brother G (the one wearing the shades). Much drink etc. consumed. Lit a fire on the beach, swigged beer, horsed around. Didn't retire so much as 'crash' as in the old juvenile days. But a great seafood supper and bracing immersion the not-too-cold sea; far too long since I've done that.
On another (almost full) note, THE GRASS I planted a couple of weeks ago is thickening nicely. We paid a gardening company to clear the scrub (vermin sycamores, ivy, etc.) then rotovate the soil. It cost enough but it was worth it. We were going to order the roll-on turf, but I did a little checking and discovered that grass can be problematic in shaded areas (and our little back yard is walled in on all sides by tall houses, flats etc.). So it seemed silly to spend 250 Euro on something that might die off within weeks. Grass-seed is cheap, a box for 12 Euro or so. I sowed it myself (albeit rather unevenly), having first re-raked the soil and sprinkled feed/fertiliser. The seed was (I presume) similar to ears of corn, dry, hard, flat and sharply oval, like straw tears. The rain came immediately afterwards, which seemed fortuitous, but it took over a week before I saw the telltale garish green, like a few licks of fungus-coloured paint. I now check on it regularly, the first (plant) seed I ever sowed, and it's tickling upwards beautifully, bright as a new lettuce-leaf.
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