Staring.........

[HayleyB]

It's a man thing normally. They stand and stare at their handiwork/DIY or if someone lifts a bonnet at a car show it's like bees to a honeypot and they all gather around, hands in pockets staring at an engine. But.......

I've started to do it too I stand and stare at my onions, lovingly at my garlic and talk to my beans and peas and seedlings and and

Am I sad........

[shirlthegirl43]

Maybe - but I do it too so I am sad as well

(I also like a peek under a car bonnet now and again so double sad)

[FionaH]

Me too, fully paid up member of the sad club!
(I can do an oil change too )

[HayleyB]

*puts hand up

OK, OK, I can do an oil change, can often diagnose a fault, even stripped down an axle. But I only stare at my chooks and veggies...........

[Rhona]

I barely know I'm looking at a car, but yep...I can stand and stare at seedings for aaages. Just touching them gently every now again...then back to staring. Busy busy.

[Snadger]

It's a man thing normally. They stand and stare at their handiwork/DIY or if someone lifts a bonnet at a car show it's like bees to a honeypot and they all gather around, hands in pockets staring at an engine. But.......

I've started to do it too I stand and stare at my onions, lovingly at my garlic and talk to my beans and peas and seedlings and and

Am I sad........

Yes!












But aren't we all!

[TonyF]

It's a man thing normally. They stand and stare at their handiwork/DIY or if someone lifts a bonnet at a car show it's like bees to a honeypot and they all gather around, hands in pockets staring at an engine. But.......

I've started to do it too I stand and stare at my onions, lovingly at my garlic and talk to my beans and peas and seedlings and and

Am I sad........

Engines have never had that effect on me, though I have several friends who drool over things mechanical, which is excellent because they fix/maintain all my kit for me in exchange for veggies or a day in their garden.

But a well tended garden, nice plants, lotties or a potager, well, they're works of art. I stop by the side of the road frequently and speak to people about their potagers over their fences, admire straight rows, types of veggie or flowers, interesting planting formations and the like.

Hayley, of course you're sad but so are many thousands of the people who use the Vine so you're among friends

[BarleySugar]

Leisure
by William Henry Davies

What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stop and stare.

No time to stand beneath the boughs
And stare as long as sheep or cows.

No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.

No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night.

No time to turn at Beauty’s glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance.

Not time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began.

A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.

[jacob marley]

Staring do's not cost anything and they can't touch you for it a good therapy keep on doing it....jacob

[zazen999]

I like a good stare. Difficult to do with a box on your head but that's why it has eyeholes cut in.

[Nicos]

I love to have a slow wander around the garden , lottie ( and windowsills!)

I like to think of it as 'surveying my estate and grounds'...even when we lived in a flat!!!!

Nature is a fascinating thing isn't it???

...my worry is that I'm picking up some French staring habits - which the other froglettes will have noticed too...it's the act of stopping whatever you are doing when you hear a car approaching along the road and watch it arrive ....stare....- and thenwatch it dissappear into the distance- and then continue with whatever you were doing!!!!

Love the poem BarleySugar!!!

[vicky]

There's nothing like a good stare at the seedlings...often getting so close you're breathing on them (carbon dioxide and all that).
Also a poke around with a stick is another enjoyable pastime, in seedtrays, compost heaps, water butts and it's even been suggested as the best method of checking when the septic tank needs emptying!

[jackie j]

I stand and stare at my veggies so I am sad too, I looked out of the kitchen window this morning waiting for the kettle to boil and looked at my overgrown Hebe I stared at it thinking that looks wierd couldnt make it out it looked twisted underneath, Then I realised a neighbours Tabby cat was sat underneath it, she looked like she was sitting under an umberella lol

[HeyWayne]

It's rude to stare.

[Peter]

Tis said that the British love work..
































they can watch other people doing it for hours.