Friday, 14 May 2010
Friday
Is cold and damp!!
It is Mid-May!!!!
"Ne'er cast a clout till the May is out"....well it is blooming now and it is blooming cold again today.
I have planted out young onions today, as the soil is warming up well, despite the wind.
Carrots, Turnips and Swedes in too. It is a Root day today!!
Now I have retreated indoors to warm up again. The heating is off, as living in a stone house it retains heat well. As the main chilling factor is the wind, once out of that it FEELS warmer!!
It is Mid-May!!!!
"Ne'er cast a clout till the May is out"....well it is blooming now and it is blooming cold again today.
I have planted out young onions today, as the soil is warming up well, despite the wind.
Carrots, Turnips and Swedes in too. It is a Root day today!!
Now I have retreated indoors to warm up again. The heating is off, as living in a stone house it retains heat well. As the main chilling factor is the wind, once out of that it FEELS warmer!!
Thursday
Didn't start well.
Half-woke early, felt drained until 7
Next-door neighbour runs a cafe of sorts, and wouldn't listen to why the bin men had left her bins. I made the mistake (there were a few of us out taking our bins back in) of telling her politely why they hadn't. She listened to that. So her and her daughter have been verbally unpleasant.
If you buy a property and run it as a cafe downstairs and a flat upstairs, you budget for waste disposal, and recycling and property maintenance. Running a flash car and going on holidays regularly and opening limited hours (10-3 and Saturday morning if you are lucky) doesn't add up...unless it is a tax avoiding ruse..... not that anyone will say any of that, to her.
So I didn't make any pots. But I did garden most of the day. Then I went for a walk halfway up the mountain with my Man.
Half-woke early, felt drained until 7
Next-door neighbour runs a cafe of sorts, and wouldn't listen to why the bin men had left her bins. I made the mistake (there were a few of us out taking our bins back in) of telling her politely why they hadn't. She listened to that. So her and her daughter have been verbally unpleasant.
If you buy a property and run it as a cafe downstairs and a flat upstairs, you budget for waste disposal, and recycling and property maintenance. Running a flash car and going on holidays regularly and opening limited hours (10-3 and Saturday morning if you are lucky) doesn't add up...unless it is a tax avoiding ruse..... not that anyone will say any of that, to her.
So I didn't make any pots. But I did garden most of the day. Then I went for a walk halfway up the mountain with my Man.
Wednesday, 12 May 2010
Wednesday
A cold and frosty morning. Followed by a cold and damp day.
I started five minutes earlier today...and arrived twenty minutes earlier, without the fan kicking in. ( I think there is an airlock in the system somewhere). Why do people insist on tailgating in the lanes, when you are doing a reasonable speed for a lane/ small road and when there is nowhere to pull over and let them go past- mind you if you did they would blast away and have an accident and block the road for you..!!
Today I made yet more dragons!! I packed a kiln full of sheep (and six dragons) as well.
I started five minutes earlier today...and arrived twenty minutes earlier, without the fan kicking in. ( I think there is an airlock in the system somewhere). Why do people insist on tailgating in the lanes, when you are doing a reasonable speed for a lane/ small road and when there is nowhere to pull over and let them go past- mind you if you did they would blast away and have an accident and block the road for you..!!
Today I made yet more dragons!! I packed a kiln full of sheep (and six dragons) as well.
Tuesday, 11 May 2010
Tuesday
I was up at six, basic housework and breakfast done, lunch packed.
The greenhouse had to be opened a little and small plants brought out for hardening off.
Then on the road by 7,3o.
It takes about an hour and a quarter, give or take five minutes, whichever way I go.
I hate being stuck in jams, and I don't like belting along at 70mph whilst people whizz by.....
So after a quick two miles down the valley bypass (easier and safer to turn off it at the roundabout than to cross it at the same place) I turn right and go up a lane- 1 in 4 for most of its length...mostly it heads straight up the side!! The hamlet here is called Ochrwyth which means Left Hand Side. Which it is, as you go up the valley!!
My route takes me through lanes until I reach Lisvane village in the North of Cardiff,and small roads for another mile to the village of Llanishen. That is two thirds of the journey, but takes only half the time.
Then I have my first Official day of Being Employed!! Just two days a week- all he can afford and all I want , to give me money AND time to do my own work !
I just wish it came without the driving .
I arrive home at nearly 5.30 and feel drained. I ought to have a cuppa and do something....but time disappears and it is now 6.50 pm, time to think of supper and shutting the greenhouse.
I need to make a shelf full of small pots that will dry quickly (and hopefully sell quickly!!)
The greenhouse had to be opened a little and small plants brought out for hardening off.
Then on the road by 7,3o.
It takes about an hour and a quarter, give or take five minutes, whichever way I go.
I hate being stuck in jams, and I don't like belting along at 70mph whilst people whizz by.....
So after a quick two miles down the valley bypass (easier and safer to turn off it at the roundabout than to cross it at the same place) I turn right and go up a lane- 1 in 4 for most of its length...mostly it heads straight up the side!! The hamlet here is called Ochrwyth which means Left Hand Side. Which it is, as you go up the valley!!
My route takes me through lanes until I reach Lisvane village in the North of Cardiff,and small roads for another mile to the village of Llanishen. That is two thirds of the journey, but takes only half the time.
Then I have my first Official day of Being Employed!! Just two days a week- all he can afford and all I want , to give me money AND time to do my own work !
I just wish it came without the driving .
I arrive home at nearly 5.30 and feel drained. I ought to have a cuppa and do something....but time disappears and it is now 6.50 pm, time to think of supper and shutting the greenhouse.
I need to make a shelf full of small pots that will dry quickly (and hopefully sell quickly!!)
Monday, 10 May 2010
Monday
The workshop is as clean and sorted as I can get it with what little space I have.
The dining room table is full with forty years worth of accumulated tools, bits and bobs.
These Must Be Sorted.
Yet another day of parts. Housework cleared by 9, gardening for a bit before braving the Jobcentre where I signed off, and persuaded the clerk to let me fill in a form to sign off, instead of me paying for a phonecall tomorrow! The form will go up the stairs to the next floor and be dealt with tomorrow...job done!!
Then off to the dentist and hygenist- teeth there, no new holes and given the ok and wash and brush up!! Relief!!
More gardening after lunch in Mountain Man's greenhouse. Bliss.
I am sieving and digging in compost from the biggest heap. This is urgent as all the other bins need to be turned into that one as soon as it is empty, and I have a compost caddy queue at home waiting!!
The dining room table is full with forty years worth of accumulated tools, bits and bobs.
These Must Be Sorted.
Yet another day of parts. Housework cleared by 9, gardening for a bit before braving the Jobcentre where I signed off, and persuaded the clerk to let me fill in a form to sign off, instead of me paying for a phonecall tomorrow! The form will go up the stairs to the next floor and be dealt with tomorrow...job done!!
Then off to the dentist and hygenist- teeth there, no new holes and given the ok and wash and brush up!! Relief!!
More gardening after lunch in Mountain Man's greenhouse. Bliss.
I am sieving and digging in compost from the biggest heap. This is urgent as all the other bins need to be turned into that one as soon as it is empty, and I have a compost caddy queue at home waiting!!
Sunday, 9 May 2010
Abergavenny Market
Yesterday's display! The new pots are replacing the old, at last!
An interesting gate.Today is a bitty day. I've done a bit of washing, a bit of gardening, had a bit of lunch, tidied the house a bit......
Now I need to tidy and clean the workshop a lot!!
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