Monday, 12-02-24

Morning, everyone.  here we are, well into the second week of February and it was light when I woke today.  Admittedly, I didn't wake until nearly half past seven and now I am wondering if I have really broken the early waking habit.  If so, I need to get a reliable and loud alarm clock or dig out the one I have and see if it still works which would be far more sensible.

I managed to get out into the garden - it wasn't too hard as the sun was shining and the birds were singing and it was lovely and mild.
I went out just before twelve and, when I glanced at my watch about half an hour later, it was nearly half past two!  Doesn't time fly sometimes.

I tidied up that middle bed which now looks pretty green, what with the cyclamen leaves covering the soil and the bulbs spiking through, not to mention the early summer flowers coming up -lupins and geraniums, for example  . . .

. . . and then more or less sorted out the other two beds, using redundant pot soil to infill the edges where they had worked on the wall repair and left gaps.  There's still a bit more work to do on the herb and foliage bed but not all that much really.  I sorted out other pots, chucked some old stuff out and generally made good inroads into it all.
Sooze, I thought of you when I was emptying one pot and found a cluster of daffodil bulbs that hadn't really done anything for years.  They're now separated and in different places including a few round the front where there's a bit of a bulb gap.  Fingers crossed.

What I forgot to do, I have just realised, is prune back the clematis - drat.  Still, that's a matter of minutes and really won't take long at all.

There's still loads of other bits and bobs but we're getting there.  I am trying to think of things that are tall and narrow to add more height to the whole bed without taking up too much space.

Today begins with circuits at Lindsey's studio and then I have my friend Mel staying for coffee when she delivers my Avon order.  Usually, Monday is downstairs cleaning but I should still have time for that, especially as I gave it a going over on Friday so it's really not that bad.

That's the highlights of my Monday.  How about you?  xx