Gosh it’s a smashing day. In the words of a classic Klingon drinking song:
The flowers are out, ‘though it’s not quite summer.
The sun is shining and the clouds are fluffy and white.
We are now appearing in a new series on Sky One,
We are very happy! Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha! *hit heads together* Ouch!
I’ve had a productive day so far. I was up until stupid O’clock finishing a paper draft, and then had to drag myself to work this morning to email part of it out. I packed up the bed that I don’t want (borrowed it off a friend, it was far too large), went to work, and then went to the big house to leave said bed in the garage and swap it with a single I have there. Lugging the wood and mattress for a 4-poster bed around on your own is not entertaining! Then I pottered off to Homebase (10% off doncha know) and went a bit mad.
A cherry tree! On very dwarfing rootstock, made for pots on patios lol. I would have preferred an apple tree but Homebase only had dwarf cherries and peaches today and I don’t like peaches. I may still get an apple at some point. My ideal is to buy some semi-dwarf rootstock and graft Annie, my apple tree from home, onto it. That way we can take her with us BUT this time she won’t end up as tall as the house… anyway that’s another story. Yesterday my mini-greenhouse arrived and is now in the garden also:
Does the job! The potatoes are planted (they’ve been chitting on the windowsill for weeks with only tiny shoots being produced – being in warm soil may get them going a bit better). I also bought… um… 12 strawberry plants. Not sure why, we have about 15 at home from last year – they are productive for about 3 years. Well, I do know why – they were £1 for 6, down from £4.99. I am one of those people who will buy someone because it’s cheap rather than because she needs it. Still I can pot them into the random crappy pots the landlord has here (the drainpipe things on the wall, a U-bend (classy) and two butler sinks) and they can make me strawberries.
This propensity for buying anything with an orange sticker on is how I’ve also ended up with a red gooseberry bush (never eaten a gooseberry, dunno if I even like them) and a blackcurrant bush. They were only £1.49 each! Bargain. Lastly I got a sorry looking coriander for 20p. For 20p you can imagine it looks very sorry indeed.
Well, two loads of washing are out drying, the bed is switched and made and I have some more potting to do!
