Yesterday was my Aunt’s 60th – we (Mum, Ding, Dong and I) made an afternoon tea with sandwiches and cakes and scones and everyone met at our cousin’s house. It was all very civilised and rather pleasant! Aunt seemed to enjoy it.
Cousin B ran the London Marathon today and finished in just under 6 hours – woo! Very good considering she’d only done up to 16miles before.
I finished my last puzzle last week – called I Love Gardening, of course 😉 :
Obligatory plant update for my records:
No sign of anything in the root bed on the lottie yet, bar couch grass which appears to be enjoying itself :/ Mixed advice on that, whether to dig it up (and sow seeds again) or leave it be and let the carrots fight it out. For now I’m leaving it be. Asparagus hasn’t made a reappearance also – I think all this hail has scared it off. The last raspberry cane is slowly starting to come into leaf though, so that’s a good thing! I also filled the second and started the third dalek – so that’s all three daleks in use now – excellent.
At home, things are more productive. The turnips were looking sad this morning but are happier after a drink, I moved the potatoes out to make room for more seed trays and topped them up and gave them and some pot grown over wintered garlic some BFB. I abandoned the tomatoes – I have some in coir plugs in the office that should start faster so no sense persevering with the stubborn ones in the blowaways, and besides, I needed the tray. I planted sweetcorn, courgette sunstripe, sweet dumpling winter squash, and cucumbers gherkin and crystal lemon. I really want to plant stuff on the lottie but must be patient – the weather is not so nice at the moment, and the sharp hail showers we’re having would be too traumatic for my little ones!
Bad weather for plants, excellent for photos:
what you gonna do with the puzzle now? PVA glue it?