Sunday

Good morning, everyone.  Yesterday was much more moderate in temperature, wasn't it?  Still warm, just not baking hot, thank goodness.  It's a good start this morning too - the sun is up and it's delightfully cool outside.

Now for the good news.  Finally we have baby beans here on the 'estate' and here's the proof.

So cute!

I took a lovely courgette around to my next door neighbour and in return she gave me a raspberry cutting she's been bringing on for me during lockdown.  It's in a beautiful condition and I have just the pot for it when I get some compost.  I use a mix of potting compost and organic matter from the bottom of the compost bit and the plants seem to like that very much.  The pot I'm using has some soil in but I will take out the top half, feed that with slow release pellets and top it up with the new stuff.
Here it is.  What a lovely neighbour.

Yesterday early morning I drove into town (I'm not using the buses yet) to pick up my prescription and to deposit a cheque from inland revenue, bless them!  There was a queue for the bank but I was let in ahead because I could do it on the machine.

Then I braved Primark and M&S.  In the latter, I bought some new, smaller bras (I'm falling out of some of the older ones when I bend over and it's not a pretty sight!) and treated myself to some nice looking green beans.  No jeans though - I've decided to use the bigger ones a bit longer and use a belt!
In Primark, I got some T shirts and they had basic flip flops at 90p so I got some, the reason being that went we go back to 'real' weigh-ins at Slimming World, the word is that we won't be allowed to take off our shoes and flip flops are light!
On the way back to the car, I went into Lakeland but was very restrained.  All I wanted was some silicone cup-cake moulds, nothing else.

Although there were plenty of people in town, it was nothing like a pre-Covid Saturday morning and it was easy to distance, we were clicked in and out of shops and there was sanitiser dotted all around the place.  What with that and the masks, it felt pretty safe.

Once home, I popped my new clothes in the washing machine with bits from the washing basket and they dried very quickly in the sun.  I got all the ironing done too so the basket is empty.

When I went to water at the allotment, I came back with seven runner beans - just a couple of mouthfuls!  Oh, the weeds!  I'm going to spend some time early morning today, while it is still nice and cool.

The other scheduled thing is to meet Beth there at five and we can do some more then as well as water.  There will be courgettes too.

Apart from that, I'm looking forward to reading the new foodie magazines in the garden and doing a bit of home weeding as well.  Oh, and some planning.  There's not much to do and it won't take long.
Have a lovely Sunday, whatever you do.  xx