Yesterday's weather was very hit and miss - short sunny spells interspersed with showers, some heavy, and the odd blast of strong wind. It wasn't particularly cold though, which was a bonus.
In the morning we nipped to Tesco for a small top up shop of fresh veg, milk and bread, then I did the freezer inventory as it was raining. Once the rain stopped, we went outside and finished off filling up the new raised bed, it's all done now and ready for planting. We know what veg we're growing this year, just have to plan where everything is going. We'll have beetroot, carrots, shallots, probably 2 kinds of tomatoes, mini cucumbers, radishes, courgettes, maybe a butternut squash or 2, new potatoes grown in bags like we did last year, and strawberries. Hopefully the tree in the middle of the front lawn will provide us with cooking apples this year, now it seems to have recovered from husband's butchery of it last year, when it then didn't produce a single apple. The beetroot, carrots and radishes will be grown from seed, the rest we'll buy as mini plants. The potatoes we've already got, they're chitting away nicely and are almost ready to plant in bags. We've also already got shallot sets, plus strawberry plants which were new last year, although didn't fruit very well at all.....I'm hoping it was just because they were new and will fruit better this year.
Progressing on our Needs/Wants list - 3 things have now been achieved, and I've booked an appointment for the 4th, someone coming next month to measure up for the vertical blinds for kitchen and lounge windows. I've had one quote already, although I wasn't overly impressed with the salesman - he wasn't pushy, just disinterested after I told him we only wanted 2 windows doing. The 3 things we've already done are the bedroom carpet for husband's room, new glasses for us both, and the new raised bed for veg. There are 7 things left on the list after the blinds have been done (the 7th was a late addition and may not be achievable this year, might have to wait until next year) and I've scheduled them all in my calendar spread out throughout the year. All going to plan so far.
Had a long WhatsApp chat with my sister yesterday, she's going to try and come down to stay twice this year, which will be fab for both of us.
Sounds like alls going well for you, nice to have your sister to visit twice.
ReplyDeleteThings are progressing well, Sooze. I hope the blinds quote is a pleasant surprise, and gives you a little more wriggle room for your next need/want!
ReplyDeleteWarmer here yesterday, but very wet. The rain was coming down like stair rods. It did dry up about 4pm, but by then any enthusiasm for getting out had long gone.🤣 Warm, wet and very windy today, according to the local weather forecast, so another day inside. One day soon... xx
Good luck with the blind's man, always a disappointment when you have a bad experience with a salesman, so off putting. I had very good service from Hi**ary's and am really pleased with my one kitchen blind, which is electrically operated. I don't need it for privacy but for shading the sun in the afternoon during Spring/Summer. It shines directly onto the sink and draining board and is so blinding it hurts the eyes.
ReplyDeleteHope you get a good response from the blinds company. We wanted roller blinds for our kitchen (2 x windows and a velux type) and got the H company round to quote because we'd sucessfully used them in the past. But they seem to have changed the way they work in my area, and their admin and organisation was so bad that we cancelled our order. Frustrating! We'll try again shortly with a different company, as we now need to replace some bedroom blinds as well which will make it a far more interesting job for them. It'll be so nice for you to have your sister to stay - they can be infuriating at times 😉 but there's nothing quite like a sister!
ReplyDeleteIt sounds as if all is moving along nicely. I would really like to do more raised bed gardening as bending over for any length of time is painful.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.