Pat got most votes for a story that is rather surprising for Pat who gives the impression of not having a malicious thought.
Next month 30 th of October Always a relief
Enjoying
it so far
Edna spotted a tiny yellow speck over the garden fence. Ah...sunflowers
she thought. Just wait until mine have finished growing, I'll show
them.
Edna
had lived in her cottage since she was born, and over the years had
used the empty lot next door for her veggie patch.
On
one never-to-be=forgotten day a SALE sign went up. Cars began slowing
down to look, then one day a big red SOLD sign appeared.
It
was Spring when the building began. No vegetables this year she
thought to herself. Oh, the noise, Builders coming and going, the
cement mixer and the deliveries. Their radio blaring all day. It
didn't stop. Edna quietly went about her gardening half heartedly.
She wondered who her new neighbours would be.
The
two story house went up making her little cottage seem old and shabby
in contrast A young couple had moved in and they nodded over the
front gate...The fence in the back was too high for Edna to see what
was going on, although she could hear him digging, knowing that the
soil was very fertile from all the years of composting and she
grumbled to herself. "How is it going" she asked one
day!Enjoying it so far" he replied. A bit cocky she thought.
Edna
began to go downhill. Her garden was her life and she had always
exhibited her vegetables at the local garden society Autumn show. Why
don't you plant some of your giant sunflowers her friend Mary had
suggested, and so she had.
When
Edna noticed next door's flowers popping up above the high fence, she
felt a little of her old spark returning, just you wait she mumbled,
"wow" said the young man, looking up, " where did you
buy your seeds for those giants?". The huge yellow faces were
swaying in the breeze almost laughing. Edna was getting back to her
old cheerful self. "If you like, I will give you some seeds when
they have dried off. " oo, yes please" he said rubbing his
hands.
Later
in the year when the seeds had dried, and before the great tits ate
them, she harvested some from the shortest, tiniest flower head and
passed them to her new neighbour with a big smile.
