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Growing a Garden
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Growing a Garden©
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Michael Casey
Well I wondered what to say today, then I thought I’ve just been planting some seeds, so I’ll try that. I did look to see if I’d written about gardens before and found something from 2013, so 6 years later here’s something else on gardens. We have moved house, and we had a nice bush separating us from the neighbour, but he wanted a wall. So my bush took a fall for the wall. However it gave me a chance to plant a garden our side of the wall up to the house. So that is what I’ve been doing these past few weeks.
The bush has been drastically cut back, but it will grow again, but only on our side of the wall. At its base I’ve planted colourful flowers, yellow, purple and orange. Don’t ask me for the names, who do you think I am? I’m not my mum or my brother, he has inherited her green fingers up to the elbow. Mum used to dive into a bush and get a cutting from Municipal Gardens while on holiday, she’d sprinkle water on it and wrap it in a bit of plastic bag. Then 2 weeks later back home in Birmingham she’d plant it and it would grow for her.
My daughter had Valentine flowers so after we had them in water for 2 weeks and were fading I decided to copy my mother. So I have removed all the petals and chopped the stems, these I have planted in our front garden. In theory we will have red roses, if they grow. I checked them as I planted today’s microscopic seeds, and my rose stems seem not to have died. Though that does not mean they will grow, but we will see. If they do grow this will mean I have green fingers up to my smelly armpits, and I will be so proud.
I have moved some Shamrock from the old house to the new one, I don’t know will it flourish like it did before by the kitchen garden wall. A splash of colour is a great thing. If things go well I will attack the borders in the back garden. That’ll be my achievement, stories galore with colours galore in the gardens.
People are like gardens too they have to be fed and watered, and nourished with love. Prince Charles talks to his plants, as we all should, God created them, so HE will accept conversation that way. Though pets in the borders might offend God, shades of “garde de l’eau”. A new friendship might start will a beer down the pub, or an overpriced Latte. Buy a jar of instant and have 100 cups of coffee together, the friendship will be much more productive.
We all know the Parable of the Sower, where seeds land on rocky land and die, or they are planted in good earth and grow, not forgetting where they grow fast and die. Seeds have to be tended. Otherwise they are like a One Night Stand, they might be pleasurable but risks of disease and shame can be attached. So it is with friendships and love. If you don’t water the friendship it dies, if you are too busy to meet or even call or face-time then a friendship or love dies. So you have to make the effort.
A plant can get all overgrown, like a man’s beard, or a woman’s legs, so you need to take time for personal grooming. A plant needs to be rotated to get more sun or it will just grow lopsided, or if in the garden it needs to be trained to grow up the wall. So it is with friendship, not that I’m saying a woman needs to be trained to grow up a man, nor a man needs more composting, maybe just a bit of trimming.
Plants grow and are a thing of beauty, they are pleasing to the eye, like a workman’s bum in chocolate adverts on tv. Plants are restful after a hard day at work, they revive us, they relax us. Tending to a plant takes our mind off the days events, if you don’t have a pet then a plant can be a 2nd best option. Our friendships are like our plants, they bear fruit.
Jake will always be there for you, he’ll carry the shopping up the stairs when the lifts break down again, and he knows his onions. He grows them in his window box and when you laughed at him he invited you to taste them with his fancy cooking. And that was the start of a new friendship.
Water, grown, trim, direct and harvest. These are things we do with our plants in the garden or in our window box. We need to do that with our friendships too, for Love Grows Where my Rosemary Goes.
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11/02/2018Posted bymichaelgcaseyPosted inUncategorizedEditGrowing a Garden
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I’ve updated this 18th March 2022 I’m Michael Casey from Birmingham England, the fat silver haired writer in shades. Beware of Others with the EXACT SAME NAME, they are not me, and would not want to be me … use Google UK to find me, otherwise Posh Americans pop up I’ve done loads of writing, about 2,000,000 Words worth over 34years now But before I started to write, I LISTENED to BBC Radio 4 for 20 years, from the age of 10 or younger Frank Brown our lodger, went back to County Tyrone and he gifted us his Bush Radio. He’d be nearly 100 now if he is still alive, so say a prayer for him 54 years in love with words, and I still look so dashing. I have a picture in the attic, just like Dorian Gray I’ve also had an interest in Politics for 54 years with my dad heckling the tv and Politicians. I almost immediately had a hit, a play called Shoplife was accepted but not finally produced by a Theatre. The Kenneth More Theatre, so thank them for sparing you all. This was back in 1989 yes, 30 years plus ago, the play was written in 1988. So since then I’m more than good enough, as a writer. Anything else….. I also ignore those who just cannot write, pick your own candidate I tend to write Comedy as I’d rather make you laugh than cry I have written over 2000 short pieces of writing, yes 2000 ” (c) by Michael Casey” If you include “chats” 3700 samples, all told, the chats do NOT go into my books when I compile them. My first book ,a full length comedy/drama is The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker You can read translations of it here on this site Up to 20 different languages/translations have been read on the same day via this site, here on WordPress look fo Translations Galore page, and more And in over 90 Countries world wide too so you have no excuse, find your own language and read The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker or Quick Stories or any other of the books in Translation on my WordPress This proves to me that the humour does travel I have readers in over 100 countries now, just to repeat myself From Nepal to American Samoa and all places North South East and West Or its just a hit man on the run, or whatever Unknown Region Means It may also mean that only non English Speakers like my stuff Coverage but lacking penetration as marketing folks might say I did get 21,000 readers in 3 weeks for the Polish version of In Search of an Indian Princess. which is basically the final 3 chapters of The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker all by word of mouth. And 50,000 plus in Christmas week 2021 If you add up all the downloads from my WordPress + 13,000 when somebody stole the file. I have had more copies than Boris Johnson’s Churchill book distributed. Maybe 40,000 copies . Not made a penny from it, free downloads in multiple languages. Reverse Logic, if the world knows me, eventually somebody will pay me But in reality I’ll be dead first, and then just 2 pennies to pay the ferryman is enough I’ve cut the Plaudits, you can read/decide for yourself As for my life, I was born in the shadow of a Brewery, I was a computer operator for a market research company into alcohol sales, 21 years altogether, StatsMR Call centre guy, like everybody once in their life I was also a Trainee Betting Shop Manager I was a concierge and 10 other roles at Crowne Plaza NEC Birmingham for 3 years. Spent 3 years at Pinsent Masons Law firm in Birmingham I even hid a copy of my comic novel “BBU” in the Law Library at Pinsent Masons, well just for a day.. I did a few other jobs too, working life in reverse so to speak and I was an Esol English teacher in an Islamic school, for a year, I knew I could teach. I got Excellent, Excellent and Exemplary on the external assessment, yes really And I asked them to pray for me at least once a day beside which I’ve had a Shanghai connection for 20 years now, including 2 bilingual daughters and being a hausfrau a long time too, I’m a great dad, as I’ve had lots of time with my daughters I can always make somebody talk or laugh I believe my short stories could be used to teach English, just package them up correctly or App them Or a Tale a Day from Michael, a story telling App What else, I was brawn and brains, I used to be as strong as an Ox, now I just smell like one We have a cat called Totoro, my daughters wanted a pet I said they could have a dog if I died , or a cat if I had a heart attack. A few weeks after that in Jan 2015 I had an Unplanned Quadruple Heart Bypass , it was supposed to be a triple but it ended up a Quadruple, 33% extra free so to speak. Now with an add on Hernia, the size of your fist, pushing through my bypass scar, it hurts when I laugh, so don’t make me laugh I also have arthritis and other hindrances that hobble my body and give me pain galore. But my mind is free, though having read my stories you may wish I didn’t bother But I’ll ignore you, and carry on regardless. I do get heckled by my own Tinnitus these past 3 years+, so I have music on all night long to drown it out. I sleep with Miley, Taylor, Eric Clapton and Will Young, maybe I should buy a bigger bed, or just get a better mattress. Tinnitus is a curse, just trust me I know, each day I wake up, Tinnitus SCREAMS at me for a full hour till it calms down That’s the end of the tidy version of my life To finish here’s the list of my 20 books, so far:- 1.The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker 2.Shoplife 3.Essays and Plays 4.Blogs 2011 5.300 and Not OUT 6.Shorts 2013 7.More Shorts 2014 8.Quick Stories 9.Still Alive 2015 10.Undiscovered Words 2016 11.Still Smiling 2017 12.Altogether Now 13.New Horizons 14.14 Up 15.15 Down 16.Sweet Sixteen 17. 17 Again 18. 18 New Views 19. The Final Cut of the 19th Hole 20. 2020 Words 21. 21 Door Keys, key to the door 21 on Bingo, hence title, 53,000 words so far I write bullet point stuff mainly now as Tinnitus stops me from getting in the zone to write, story stories. (c) by Michael Casey stuff though my bullet points are better than some “writers” discuss, miaow. That’s why I dream of a speed typist, so I could dictate from the sofa https://www.amazon.co.uk/Michael-Casey/e/B00571G0YC to buy ebooks Loads of Korean and Arabic translations downloaded from my WordPress, 1000s of them Quick Stories in Korean is a big hit. Maybe Kim in North Korea should read my books, instead of wasting his countries resources on what? Just keeping one person in power, him? Instead of joining the real world and opening a string on golf courses. That way we could get rid of Trump too. Into the sunset, as they play golf. Tears for a Butcher will be the sequel to BBU, and it too will be 600pages, however I really need a speed typist to put it down, while I sit and dictate like Barbara Cartland, and hopefully my speed typist would be impressed. we’d marry have half Korean kids, and form a Kpop band with our 4 new kids, with me as manager. And yes this is more for my bucket list, as Tinnitus keeps me awake too much, 6 months of not sleeping till dawn is really killing me Michael Casey aka the fat silver haired writer in shades from Birmingham England https://2.gravatar.com/avatar/efda2dca0de5b9269191b7c8b0102473?s=400&d=mm View more posts
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