GUERILLA GARDENER

By G. Jolliffe on November 10, 2013 in GRACE’S THOUGHTS

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GUERILLA GARDENER ON THE LOOSE

My neighbours and I are very puzzled about this strange event. This lovely old water pump is just down the lane from me. I love it being so close. I pass it every day.

I feel like it holds the shadows of people who used it over the last century and I imagine the stories it could tell me – if only it could talk.

Lately it had become quite overgrown and almost hidden from view by tangles of briar.

Then some time during the last week, someone (no one knows who) came along and chopped away the briars and tidied up the area around it.

Someone also placed this seat in front of it. I say placed rather than dumped because it seems to be perfectly upright and I imagine a random dumper wouldn’t have bothered? Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe dumpers care about aesthetics.

I wonder if the person who did the tidying did the dumping. Why would someone do that? Maybe as a seat to while away an hour? A very wet seat though.

Maybe it was just a random tidy-upper followed by a random dumper?

These are the things that perplex me on a Sunday afternoon when it’s too wet and cold to go and play outside in the garden…

About G. Jolliffe

Grace Jolliffe is a fiction writer who lives with her husband and dogs in Galway Ireland. Her home is on the Wild Atlantic Way route, quite close to the beautiful Burren, and so her garden shares the Burren landscape - with more rocks than soil. She is very interested in permaculture and is learning to garden through trial and error. Grace regards everything she does in the garden as an experiment and will freely admit that not every experiment has worked out but that she has learned something useful anyway. In addition to growing vegetables and flowers she also keeps hens and ducks. Grace loves swapping plants and seeds with other gardeners and has made some great friendships this way. She blogs about her gardening as a way of tracking her own progress, keeping records of her work and because she loves sharing information with other gardeners and exchanging tips with other gardeners around the world.

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GUERILLA GARDENER

GUERILLA GARDENER ON THE LOOSE

My neighbours and I are very puzzled about this strange event. This lovely old water pump is just down the lane from me. I love it being so close. I pass it every day.

I feel like it holds the shadows of people who used it over the last century and I imagine the stories it could tell me – if only it could talk.

Lately it had become quite overgrown and almost hidden from view by tangles of briar.

Then some time during the last week, someone (no one knows who) came along and chopped away the briars and tidied up the area around it.

Someone also placed this seat in front of it. I say placed rather than dumped because it seems to be perfectly upright and I imagine a random dumper wouldn’t have bothered? Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe dumpers care about aesthetics.

I wonder if the person who did the tidying did the dumping. Why would someone do that? Maybe as a seat to while away an hour? A very wet seat though.

Maybe it was just a random tidy-upper followed by a random dumper?

These are the things that perplex me on a Sunday afternoon when it’s too wet and cold to go and play outside in the garden…

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