If my house were a warren it'd probably be Omtose Phellack.
I did, rather sagaciously turn on the radiator yesterday and it does a beautiful job keeping the living room toasty warm, and for various reasons of incidental conveniences I keep the radiator in that particular area because it's the living room and something of a heart of the home; like a hive central so to say..but where does it leave the other rooms?
Well, the other rooms are left in a gellid confusion of frosty ambience.
One could argue that the air conditioner in warm blower setting can be turned on, if matters are that extreme, and there will come a time when this season will lead to that eventuality.. but for now turning on room heaters, as tempting as it is, will in fact be a bit excessive, superfluous even and for those reason alone I'm only toying with the remote control.
The house is a delicious 15ºc and lit rather frugally by incoming sunlight.
In theory, today could be called mildly sunny, if sunlight were sieving itself through a hundred layers of tough fabric then yes, it's sunny today.
Yes, it's the winters. It's a new season, what do you expect?
That's not my gripe, I'm alright with the cold, it's just that I like talking about it and maybe complain a wee bit, I've no issues with the cold; what I do wish to hate on about this weather is Its ability to silently, assuredly murder my herbs.
Just last week my basil crumpled under the crisp blast of intense cold, and now my Thai basil is turning all sorts of frail.
I have brought my plants inside the house, mounted them on a special structure that keeps them close to the window pane so as to let them eat as much sunlight or whatever excuse for sunlight we get and yes, I've kept them in the living room so that they stay warm, but to no avail.
they're slowly perishing and my heart is breaking.
If this basil dies too then I'm left with a rosemary plant apart from mint and oregano and I've even constructed a makeshift greenhouse in the balcony for them and that's probably my only last hope.
I don't know if I should weep or curse freely or perhaps both?
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