How it arrived on the back door mat I don't know!!
Now moved to the wildlife corner with the clump of nettles....which I think have been home to the peacock and tortoiseshell butterflies that have been in my garden this past week
Tbe first firing didn't go completely to plan...it took a while to get it lit...and I'm remembering slowly (with the help of the firing log book) how to fire it.
A slight problem at the end was that the second burner refused to stay lit. This meant that it took longer to fire...and will probably be uneven. But we will see when it comes to opening time, hopefully tomorrow afternoon.
and the day finished in technicolour!!
We were at the forefront of the rain this morning... A few heavier showers ( but nothing compared to what Edinburgh apparently received this afternoon... water running down the streets type rain...)
Nice to see a bit of blue sky... But I think that it is raining there in the distance...
These go from the right to the left...
Looking straight out north-west
Today has been a mass of bits and much Inertia. Doing a job and getting sidetracked by another.. and another...
Two positives.. Or maybe three...
Bread baked (in the bread making machine)
Local plumber organised.. Bathroom sink taps' washers, appear to be dying.
Found him by saying "help I need a plumber" on the village fb page!!
In consequence of that I have been tidying this and that..... Which did need doing. I don't want it so tidy that there is, nothing "in progress" around, but you can have too many things in progress.
I will be glad when Brother has been.. Mid September... IT things to sort, old IT to be found a home or gone!!
I'll be glad when offspring let me know when the best dates for visiting them all will be. You think that they'd be a bit more forthcoming after complaining that I don't see them often enough!!
There will be an amount of Stuff heading towards them too... They can keep what they need and pass the rest on to local op shops.
I am trying not to have the radio on for background... Especially when I'm on the computer as well! But it does give a sense of company and security, especially overnight.
It also masks other humming noises... Being ND means that you can pick up sounds that others don't notice... Like the radio even when turned off but still plugged in.. I remove the plug from the socket. Little things like that...
We are having much needed rain.
However 13⁰...after 24⁰ a few days ago...is a shock to the system,!?
Indoor jobs today...hemming a sheet for the sofabed after I removed the flounce.
Then hunting for an hour or more for some elastic for the corners. Luckily I found the bodkin to feed it through just after I found the elastic.
Inertia rules today. So much to do, that I want to do. Sometimes just starting is not easy.
What is too easy is being on the internet.
Not just scrolling..although there is some of that! Chatting (message) with friends. Reading interesting things. Learning stuff.
It is also company. As is the radio.
it doesn't look a large amount, but there is now a builders bag of honeysuckle and another of laurel and a smaller bag of trimmed heavier branches to go!
While I had the secateurs in hand I pruned the white and redcurrants..a bit late, should have been done straight after harvesting...but they've been left for a couple of years! Blackcurrants will be done in the spring .
Then rain stopped play...fortunately...I needed to stop!!
typical...just when you get used to.it behaving!!!
The three "after " pictures come before the two "before"...
This is what I've achieved so far with secateurs and loppers and feet on the ground. Those branches are still well over the kiln shed and up to the phone/broadband lines.
I can't risk a fire...but at least I use gas, not any solid fuel.
A slow start after yesterday's efforts! But they were timed well as we had rain overnight . I risked a load of washing after breakfast...and put them on the line....as I left for the bus after lunch it was coming on to rain very light fine rain. I wasn't going to turn back then! I saw these on the way to the bus...
It was good to see the bus almost full on the way to Ayr. Including two large buggies, a young woman with a walker (MS I think) and another with large buggy which she had to fold...and 4 kids, but good to see them helping their mum.
This time there was no pressure to get the shopping done before class...A leisurely coffee was followed by op shop book hunting.
Nothing that I was looking for...but I did find this...
French Convo was good..and my homework didn't get too much red pen!!
Back home the washing was dry!!
Then I cleared the roots and leaves of the laurel tree that were behind the kiln shed before it came on to rain properly.
Rain definitely stopped play...but most of the job was done so that I can reach more of the Laurel to prune it.
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