Steephill are you a mermaid or a merman then? My grump, I have put on a stone!!! Fed up with these ridiculous late cold nights, went to a Nursery 13 miles from home, lady lost her Runner Beans last night in a frost. Around Halland (where Steve |Coogan lives)
On the subject of suppliers, I've just had a SM delivery (which I am grateful for, don't get me wrong) but.... I'd ordered 3 4pt bottles of skimmed milk (ie.12 pts to last a week) but only 3 2pt ones were delivered - half the quantity needed. Can't quite see the logic in that but suspect its because there's a 3 item limit? I'd have been quite happy with 3 skimmed and 3 semi-skimmed if necessary.
I'd love to go for a wander round one of the local garden centres but we're shielding due to my father in law being extremely poorly and hubby wanting to visit him if the situation changes. We've got 4 kids and other than a drive once a week to collect our shopping they've not left the house for longer than this has gone on for (we were put into self isolation due to the youngest having a cough before the schools even closed) and yet selfish people everywhere just flout the rules and do as they please. I'm struggling to get compost, plants are a no no so I'm growing what I can from seed and today I've found vine weevil in my strawberries so don't know if they've gotten into everything else too ☹ Gardening or rather growing is what's keeping me sane at the minute and today just put me on a major downer
I've lost a few pounds @Nanny Beach. You must be a better cook than me! In the invention / substitution stakes I've had only marginally more successes than failures. But I'm taking a positive slant on this having learnt a little about statistics from the daily Tory party political broadcast.
I'm feeling curmudgeonly because I still haven't found my Fiskars garden scissors which I mislaid a few weeks ago. And today I failed to locate the old net curtains I use every summer to protect the ripening cherries from the birds. Even though they look like peas at present, I've already caught a pigeon nibbling at them.
Still no sign of the scissors. but the second part of this post has been transferred to Reasons to be Cheerful!
They were surprisingly intact but sadly it was just boring girl stuff and nothing worth getting excited about. Plant delivery is due next week though. New sedums
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
B3, I have always cooked from scratch, and baked, usually a cake of some sort for Hubby to take to work, course, hes furlowed, the first 2 weeks of lockdown, I was anxious, twitchy, in the evenings I couldnt sit still would just wander round, in side and out. Then I read Max pembertons helplines, thought right girl, (haha) routine, so made the cakes I would for him, we ate them instead, I did eat biscuits, I dont normally have lunch, but he does. I am not talking massive ammounts here, my portion sizes are smaller than my 8 year old grandson . We share a small cod and chips, and often dont eat all the chips.Its not like we didnt excersice either, we live opposite the South Downs, and have had a couple of walks each week, of between 90 minutes, and 3 hours, (did stop for a 20 minute picnic on that one) plus the other days, 30 minutes running, playing football with our border collie, I have a larder in my kitchen, and a triple wooden cupboard in my conservatory, used to be called the "Kitchen" then the "Kitchen Maid", in the 50/60s, lots of storage, and a drop down metal "worktop", so always plenty of stuff to bake with, andd leftovers, nope, they get made into something. The battery on my scales gave up, I bought some Salter Manual ones, then batteries. There was just one item of clothing, I couldnt get into, some spray on, lilac coloured skinny jeans!
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
In the invention / substitution stakes I've had only marginally more successes than failures. But I'm taking a positive slant on this having learnt a little about statistics from the daily Tory party political broadcast.
Still no sign of the scissors. but the second part of this post has been transferred to Reasons to be Cheerful!