Happy it's raining

How evil is it for me to be ecstatic that it has been pouring with rain all weekend, because I am stuck in the house editing the final manuscript of my book, and the weather means I'm less distracted by the thought of a trip down the allotment?

I know it means everyone else who wanted to spend a few hours of quality time on their plot faces the prospect of a miserable time squelching about, but my deadline (June 1, now you ask) is looming so large now that any residual sympathy has to be pushed aside.

If it's any comfort, I did get soaked to the skin going to buy a paper yesterday. And then my cold frame blew over in the wind a couple of nights back and I had to go into the garden at 6am in dressing gown and slippers to rescue my tomatoes. That'll teach me for not weighting it down with a brick.

Comments

[Greenhouse Girl]

Jane,

We can all make good use of a rainy day, even it we use to get out of doing some weeding …

‘The best kind of rain, of course, is a cozy rain. This is the kind the anonymous medieval poet makes me remember, the rain that falls on a day when you'd just as soon stay in bed a little longer, write letters or read a good book by the fire, take early tea with hot scones and jam and look out the streaked window with complacency.’
[Susan Allen Toth]

[daniel]

Jane: Good for you for know how to use bad weather to your advantage. I live in NYC, where it only seems to rain on weekends, my days off!!

Daniel
http://www.how-2-tile.com/

[Ames Tiedeman]

You should consider a backyard hobby greenhouse by Rion. They will do wonders for your plants and vegetables.

You can create your own rain with a spray system!