Thursday

Good morning, everyone.  For the fist time in a week I slept beyond five and was very pleased with myself.  It was actually not completely dark when my eyes opened although it is increasingly obvious that the nights are drawing in and hanging around for longer and the early mornings and the evenings are cooler.  A shame, although September is often a very pleasant month so fingers crossed.

One little excitement yesterday was having some golden raspberries and pink blueberries with yogurt in the evening.  They tasted so good.  There aren't that many blueberries (although more than 2018, which was the plant's first year) but the raspberries look as if they will be prolific given that there's just two plants and I'm wondering if I might get some earlier fruiting ones too, at some point.

The blue blueberry has been a disappointment - although I had a few fruits last year, there has been nothing this year and, as it is behind netting, it's not the birds.  I need to look up the pruning instructions and see what I need to do.

There's two more cucumbers to cut, more red mini chillies and the runners and tomatoes keep a-coming so my meals are rather laden with them right now (not complaining in the slightest).   If we have the promised warm and sunny weather this coming week, that will be great for them. 

Beth was round yesterday afternoon and we ordered the batting for the spare room single bed quilts she is making.  They're going to look really lovely when they're done.

I've just been out to water as I remembered that I didn't yesterday evening and I really do need to spend an hour or so out there today.  There's more weeds than I like to see, clutter that needs to be binned and some dead heading, plus if I want more strawberries next year, I need to do something about all the runners that are currently trying to invade the rest of the garden.  Now, where did I put those pots?

Apart from that, it's an ordinary day doing nice, ordinary things.  Tidying up, for a start - I do seem to attract piles of messy stuff in corners of my home and it's starting to irritate considerably!  As there's no-one else to blame but me, I'd better do something about it!

I'd better get started with the old kitchen then - that's probably the easiest one.  And coffee - I need coffee!
Have a great day.  xx