September

Only eight of us two members preferred to go on holiday.
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.