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"Before we start we need wheelbarrows. Those objects that can rend gardening compatibility apart. Marriages may founder as each person tries to be the first to find the empty one." I have borrowed these words from Mirabel Osler in her book The Rain Tree, a Memoir. I have already read Oysler´s book about the garden she end her husband created, this is the memoir she wrote after her husbands death.
After what feels like weeks of rain, the weather is beautiful today. Mild and sunny and the autumn colours are sparkling. Terje and I plan to have a day working in the garden, with a long list of things to do to prepare the garden for winter, and a coming spring. We have only one wheelbarrow. After being married for 40 years, running a garden together for 35 of these, we still have never gone around to buy a second one (which I think we should have,Terje is completely satisfied with the single one). I know there will be times today, more than once, when one of us will start walking around in the garden, hunting for The One. "Hi, have you seen the wheelbarrow? Oh, there it is? When will you be finished?"
Ha, we are still married, with our solo wheelbarrow between us, and now it looks like we have got a competitor. The little red robin :-) It is time for some coffee, and while I sit down I think I will read some pages from The Secret Garden and the red robin which showed Mary the key.
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