Tuesday, 08-08-23

Good morning, everyone!  After a pleasant, sunny day yesterday, today seems to be starting off the same although drizzle and then rain is predicted for this afternoon. 

I feel I can hardly call this Little Runt any more although he's still a lot smaller than Heir (second photo) or Spare (third photo).  All three are giving enough to keep me and friends in courgettes but not an overload - fine by me.

Here's Heir in situ.  I'm going to change the content of this bed next year, once the walls have been repaired and the soil cleared and improved.  The strawberries haven't been great again this year and, what with Lathcoats close by, I hardly need them really.  There used to be tomatoes where the strawberries are until they got blight one year.

Anyway - my idea is that where the strawberries are, I will plant a yellow courgettes and where Heir is, I'm going to try runner beans again.  I used to have runner beans but not for the last three years and I've missed them.  There's room in that bed for a couple of wigwams which will be enough for one.

That's the idea at the moment but it might change.  :-)

Here's Spare, still looking pretty decorative among the bush tomato and black bamboo.

Yesterday didn't start all that well.  I turned up at Specsavers only to be very apologetically informed that my glasses hadn't arrived yet.  Well, they could have told me a bit earlier, maybe.  So now I have to wait for them to contact me, whenever that will be, and make my way back into town to pick them up.  I think I will take the bus - more time consuming but a lot cheaper!

I had a good meander around town though.  I picked up (and paid for!!!) a few sets of pretty earrings for when I can ring the changes and also a nice top from Next, a small, quite pretty backpack handbag thingy which will be nice for the not posh evenings on the cruise and some thin tights for ditto (as well as the posher evenings).
Then I took the scenic route home and stopped at Hobbycraft.

At some point last week, I sorted out what I optimistically call my jewellery box.  It had an awful lot of toot in it which is now goodness knows where after being chucked (It wasn't even worth donating, believe me) and I found a little collection of molto cheapo dangly Christmas earrings on clips that I never really wore because they hurt and I'm a wimp.
So, at Hobbycraft, I got a pack of hooks for pierced ears and a pack of split rings (I think that's what they're called) and yesterday afternoon I pulled the little Christmassy things (Snowmen, Santas, stars, trees, etc) off the clips and fastened them to the hooks using the split rings and now I have a nice little collection of fun earrings to wear in December - you know what I'm like about Christmas!  I can wear them in matching pairs or ring the changes!

I did a bit of weeding and so on before driving over to Lindsey's for personal training which was, as always, really good.

Yesterday was a nice day!

Today starts with Groove (yay) and then I have a list of Things To Do

1.  more weeding

2.  mow 'lawn' (it's shockingly long!)

3.  move stuff from upright to chest - I have more space in the chest freezer and I'm hoping I can pretty much empty the upright by the end of August.

4.  tidy kitchen - there's a lot of stuff that's just sitting on the working space and which needs to be sorted and put away.

That should give me plenty to be getting on with!

Do you have  Little List today?