Improvement

 To edit...it was the penicillin antibiotic which has caused the problems....

All the symptoms are steadily disappearing as my body clears the penicillin. It will take a while with some of them, but even my hip is easing steadily..I'm keeping up with anti inflammatory gel..and keeping moving!!

Despite a chilly breeze, I weeded a quarter of the polytunnel and cleared the grass as well as I could from the quarter which has alpine strawberries. With the wind from the front of the house and with the late afternoon sun I was warm enough and the fresh air was good.

Then a bit of improving..fettling the greenware which is waiting to be fired. I am putting it in mushroom trays, packed around with shredded paper.

discovery...and commenting

 With help from a knowledgable friend I have worked out that I'm allergic to penicillin....muscle and joint pains kicking in after two days...consequently walking was a bit difficult today..

But I did it!

Concentrating on the lesson wasn't easy either...after a sleepless night...despite that I got much work correct.

I'm having difficulty commenting (even on my own blog!) The method to use when it just sits there saying "publishing" is copy the comment, reload the page, paste the comment..and it usually works. 

If you get the sad face instead of a comment box, reload...or go back later.

It was frosty again this morning...and I found a good sign the the Glasgow School of Art..and the old building still smells smoky as you walk past 🙁

Ayr today

 Shopping and French conversation today...not a lot of shopping...and never enough conversation!

Concentrating again on those little words that say nothing but are very useful in conversation!

Bah, Alors...Bof !!! Pfft !   Enfin..,Donc....

Every language has them!!

some building details on the way to the class...and sunset after getting home.

steady garden progress

 I'm making best use of the warmer weather before it leaves again!! 

I did what I could out of doors today..boosting my vitamin D naturally! I was a joy to see a blue sky.

Kale has been potted on, broad beans planted out, carrots and radish sown together. one patch mulched with cardboard, another hoe-ed over. A quarter of the polytunnel weeded.  No rushing, just steady work..with stops to appreciate the weather!!  If the weather holds tomorrow morning I could weed the strawberry bed...

The antibiotics seem to be working on my sinuses and chest...that wasn't the intended target!! The swelling is still on my finger...but looks to have stopped spreading.

I hope that this hasn't been triggered by getting back into throwing!!

Onions !

 Steady gardening has been the order of the day. Planting out 120 red onion sets (and protecting them from Jackdaws and cats!!

getting the last of the compost from the compost bin...I could have used twice as much. 

I trimmed the shrubs in my front garden by my neighbour's wall. Gradually pulling everything together.

Her funeral is a week on Thursday. Hopefully one daughter will buy her siblings out. 

Nothing much after that!  Antibiotics aren't very good for one's Get up and Go.

It does feel like these are clearing my

back to front photo order..I haven't had that for a while!!!

sinuses.  It may not be the reason for taking them, but they are at least helping in one direction!

just when you think things are going ok

 I had the sad face when I tried to publish a comment  so I just went back to the blog following list and returned to that blog. Occasionally I hit Publish and it just sits there saying "publishing"...copy the comment, out and back again , paste and it goes through ok. which it is doing right now 🙄...

Only it didn't....I'll be back again later!

I went to the local surgery yesterday..one of my fingers started being red and swollen at the tip on Friday morning.  The pharmacy's advice of anti-inflammatory gel didn't work...and it was spreading.

No obvious damage, so I'm on antibiotic meds. Something I rarely take.

Meh!!!!

But on a positive , it is warmer and actually feels like Spring, the sun is shining (between showers , yesterday!) and the pelargoniums on the windowsill are flowering .

The one on the left is a quince grown from seed.

Getting Things Done

 

First job this morning was to paint my plinth in the gallery..it has drawers that others can use, I painted the fronts of them out of the plinth body...I didn't want to have them painted in and stuck!!

Then to sort out broadband..so fortunate that EE has a shop on the high street...far easier to deal with. That got me a reduction.

Shopping next...spotted a few reduced prices and loyalty card offers on things I usually buy...and then feed the car!!

Then to the big box DiY store for drawer knobs. and glue, a countersink bit (cos I can't find mine 🙄) and plastic screw caps to hide the screws in my little plinth (which will go on the big one) Plus a tub for shifting compost...my wheelbarrow is propping up the back gate after all the storms.

Next to another supermarket..a couple of small good deals including organic milk reduced...and lunch! 

Then home...escape from all the rushing...

and tonight a phone call from EE..to improve my phone contract and further tweak the broadband.  It shows that it is better to deal with people instead of doing it online...it took a while for EE man to look through all the contract variations to find the right one. What chance would I have to get it right!

Even better, he found special offers on top of the good deal..saving more. Plus the timing means that I avoid the inflation price rise...

Not bad going!!

Then 2 pints of the milk started the process of of becoming yoghurt , and 2 pints went in the freezer. I've been lucky being in the right place at the right time...there are now three boxes of milk for yoghurt in the freezer!  You can't turn down a good deal when it us something you regularly buy anyway!