About TanGental
My name is Geoff Le Pard. Once I was a lawyer; now I am a writer. I've published several books: a four book series following Harry Spittle as he grows from hapless student to hapless partner in a London law firm; four others in different genres; a book of poetry; four anthologies of short fiction; and a memoir of my mother. I have several more in the pipeline.
I have been blogging regularly since 2014, on topic as diverse as: poetry based on famous poems; memories from my life; my garden; my dog; a whole variety of short fiction; my attempts at baking and food; travel and the consequent disasters; theatre, film and book reviews; and the occasional thought piece. Mostly it is whatever takes my fancy.
I avoid politics, mostly, and religion, always. I don't mean to upset anyone but if I do, well, sorry and I suggest you go elsewhere.
These are my thoughts and no one else is to blame. If you want to nab anything I post, please acknowledge where it came from.
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Great! Now, come do mine. 🙂 🌹
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Sounds like a plan…
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Looks amazing , wish mine looked as nice
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It’s been five years in the planning and execution but it is getting there
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Looks amazing!!!
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It’s getting better all the time…
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Something gorgeous to look at in this miserable weather!
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I know what you mean but then again I love rain, always have. Me and dog go and get drenched, not sure he’s so keen!
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I love rain too… As long as I’m inside 😉
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Wuss!!
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🤣 but monsoon rain… I’m there!
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Terrific. Is that peat moss your man’s applying to the lawn?
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It’s a special lawn feed the recycling centre creates form the garden waste we put out in our borough and sells through a DIY store locally. It’s the first time we
Ve used it having heard good reports and it appears to be doing well. We have been lucky that the temperature has stayed above 10C at night and a lot of rain which has meNt the seed we add has germinated.
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Sounds perfect. I guess you decided not to comment on the “your man,” reference. 😀.
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No sorry he is my personal hero, couldn’t do it without him – he’s a bit of a hortiterrorist and has to be reined in but it wouldn’t be a third as good with Nathan!
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Good to know.
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Everything in the garden is beautiful 💜
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In its own shutting down way, that’s true. Have you had your fill of rain yet.
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Definitely, but it is not giving up yet! It makes dog walking so messy. 🥴🤣🤣💜💜💜
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quite!
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Humm!
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I can only repeat what I already said: You have such a beautiful garden. And of course, it causes a lot of work.
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It does pull us to its whim but we aren’t exactly fighting it off. Big chances for some of it this autumn
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👍
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Certainly a huge change from the wedding garden. Lovely still, but not as festive.
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Nope like us all it moves on and this autumn winter we have a fair few plans to implement
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Geoff, I like how you displayed your photographs plus the splash of autumn colours.
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Thanks… the colours have been brill but now it’s unrelenting rain which I think the Sydneysiders could do with
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I think so. The dreary weather is not something I am missing!
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Cool smiley face. How fun.
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It just sort of happened… you know how it can be
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Beautiful Geoff. You are well ahead on your autumn tidy up. I love the smiley face.
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It sort of happened; we had a good giggle over that! And the tidy up is happening gradually as usual. We try to leave the leaves on the beds and cutback the herbaceous borders gradually as so many creates – shrews mice frogs toads newts etc – use it as a warm place to hibernate. We are clearing out two beds to replant them over the next two years, possibly creating a meadow grass/wild flower and orchard area
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Lovely. I have one more afternoon’s worth of tidying up to do – hopefully tomorrow. Like you, I like to provide warm beds for the mini beasts…
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V important! After our deluging rain i found about half a dozen drowned bumble bees. I had a little moment then but after there was a mad scramble of birds around some seeds so not all gloom
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Your garden always amazes me, Geoff. It’s gorgeous. I love that blue lawnmower too. I just might be tempted to use it. But then, more maybe not. 🙂
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That’s a scarifier in fact which we use to rip out the annual thatch that builds up over the summer of cutting and inhibits the grass’ growth. It removes moss too and helps aerate the lawn before we add topsoil (the gorgeous black stuff) and seed. Twice a year and it helps build the strength resilience and constancy of the lawn
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Well, there you go. I hadn’t heard of one of those or any of those jobs before – very interesting. Thank you. 🙂
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Looks like you have a crop circle in your backyard, Geoff.
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we have many strange beasties here Pam!
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😂😂😂
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Still looking good
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thanks Derrick – it’s been a pretty good year so far
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You can’t go wrong with a smiley face on your lawn. 🙂 … spectacular all round. 😀
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V important those grass based emojis
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heheheheheh! 😀
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A five and a half pronoun response!!! I’m touched…
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😀
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Wonderful palette of autumnal colours. Love the giant frog.
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