Back from the market and other errands. Didn't buy veggies as yes, all screened off now and nothing tempting anyway.  7€ for a 2 servings bundle of green asparagus is a bit OTT. Some fish stalls closed but others good. Whole turbot for 18€ a kilo. Cod fillets same price which seems odd. Ended up with a whole hake, beheaded, scaled and cleaned for 6€90. We do like hake. Plus local caught sardines to grill for a starter.
Went and had fish and chips form a van on the fishing port quai - excellent batter and proper chips plus a wicked sauce tartare for 9€ each.  Thence to SM to buy big bags of dog biscuits which they haven't had for months in my usual branch. Had a look at wines for spicy foods but no better there.
I was googling about last night and a sommelier form one of the fancier Indian restaurants in London recommended a particular wine from the domaine de la Grange des Pères in the south west. Tracked it down. A mere 390€ a bottle!  We'll stick with Chilean reds. Â
Cool here but the wind has calmed down so I shall get changed and go and play in the polytunnel.  Pots to transfer from the semi headless barn and other stuff too.
It's a public holiday here tomorrow - VE Day - so OH is off to pick up his strimmer from the doc's this pm but has, when he had his 2nd jab this morning was told to take it easy for 48 hours. Can't play with it anyway on public holidays. Noise laws.
The damned stream-fed lake in our village is finally full @Pat E but we won't be rowing on it either.  Sounds like you need some of @chicky's deer treatment @punkdoc
Hope you are feeling better today @punkdoc. We had our second jabs yesterday and feel a bit odd today - nothing you can put your finger on, but enough to think a paracetamol might help. Was planning on planting some veg from Rocket Veg (I think) in the veg patch today but - sudden hailstorm! OH umming and ahhing about going up to the shops so we drove. (Naughty, but we needed a carrot). Got a nice mint plant from the florist (it smelt gorgeous in there - even through my mask). So that's something else to pot on. Next week is going to be very busy in the garden methinks.
Well. I've overdone it as usual and now my back/hip joints are screaming at me, ibuprofen gel to the rescue. Weeded the whole of my main border, found that I've lost a newish Hebe, an erigeron k. and a favourite penstemon Stapleford Gem. Blast! After a rest at lunch, I also potted on another 40 or so plug plants and am definitely out of the right size pots now. I don't know what possessed me to order so many and don't know what I'm going to do with them all. Nearly out of potting compost and grit so another trip to the GC beckons - weather permitting.
Sirloin steak and chips for us tonight so that's an easy meal. Then there's GW on later. I watched Carol Klein last night and really enjoyed it. Ended up following her example and putting H.grit around all my plug plants this morning - I wonder if it will make any difference.
Your trips to the local markets appear to have been productive BL and Obelixx, even if you couldn't get all you wanted. Â
Finished work a teeny bit early so had a wander and potter in the garden as tomorrow will be a right-off with the heavy rain. It looks lovely out there this evening but, quite frankly, it is cold. I have put the heating on and fully expect to be putting the electric blanket on later too.Â
I hope all are ok and those feeling under par are improved tomorrow.Â
I know @Busy-Lizzie but tomorrow he's supposed to rest and Sunday is always golf unless we're confined to barracks by Covid.
He's feeling weary already and has had a snoozle before walking the dogs. I had a great time organising pots and dahlias and emptying stuff out of my potting barn. There's a two piece table tennis table there that might just make a winter breakfast shelter for the chucks in their pen. Just a metal arch, a bit of rusty manger from the barn in Belgium and a rusty coat and hat rack to shift out of my barn now and then the "wreckers" can come to take away all the bent and twisted corrugated iron left hanging.
Now to work out what to do with hake - Spanish or Keralan?
Cool here @AuntyRach but not enough to need heating.  We are promised a giddy 24C tomorrow afternoon! On a public holiday too.
Oh!  @Busy-Lizzie  Wonderful!  I weeded my onions today (full of nettles) hoed them and then soaked them.  Doesn't it feel even better than doing housework!?!  The garden is just super!  You can certainly pat yourself on the back/have an extra glass of wine etc.  this is so deserved.  I don't plant my brassicas until mid July - when do you hope to eat yours?  Beautifully set up and planned out.  A pleasure to the eye.
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Went and had fish and chips form a van on the fishing port quai - excellent batter and proper chips plus a wicked sauce tartare for 9€ each.  Thence to SM to buy big bags of dog biscuits which they haven't had for months in my usual branch. Had a look at wines for spicy foods but no better there.
I was googling about last night and a sommelier form one of the fancier Indian restaurants in London recommended a particular wine from the domaine de la Grange des Pères in the south west. Tracked it down. A mere 390€ a bottle!  We'll stick with Chilean reds. Â
Cool here but the wind has calmed down so I shall get changed and go and play in the polytunnel.  Pots to transfer from the semi headless barn and other stuff too.
It's a public holiday here tomorrow - VE Day - so OH is off to pick up his strimmer from the doc's this pm but has, when he had his 2nd jab this morning was told to take it easy for 48 hours. Can't play with it anyway on public holidays. Noise laws.
The damned stream-fed lake in our village is finally full @Pat E but we won't be rowing on it either.  Sounds like you need some of @chicky's deer treatment @punkdoc
I've done precious little since going to the market, don't know how it's taken me so long.Â
After a rest at lunch, I also potted on another 40 or so plug plants and am definitely out of the right size pots now. I don't know what possessed me to order so many and don't know what I'm going to do with them all. Nearly out of potting compost and grit so another trip to the GC beckons - weather permitting.
Sirloin steak and chips for us tonight so that's an easy meal. Then there's GW on later. I watched Carol Klein last night and really enjoyed it. Ended up following her example and putting H.grit around all my plug plants this morning - I wonder if it will make any difference.
Your trips to the local markets appear to have been productive BL and Obelixx, even if you couldn't get all you wanted. Â
Have a good evening folks.
Finished work a teeny bit early so had a wander and potter in the garden as tomorrow will be a right-off with the heavy rain. It looks lovely out there this evening but, quite frankly, it is cold. I have put the heating on and fully expect to be putting the electric blanket on later too.Â
I hope all are ok and those feeling under par are improved tomorrow.Â
He's feeling weary already and has had a snoozle before walking the dogs. I had a great time organising pots and dahlias and emptying stuff out of my potting barn. There's a two piece table tennis table there that might just make a winter breakfast shelter for the chucks in their pen. Just a metal arch, a bit of rusty manger from the barn in Belgium and a rusty coat and hat rack to shift out of my barn now and then the "wreckers" can come to take away all the bent and twisted corrugated iron left hanging.
Now to work out what to do with hake - Spanish or Keralan?
Cool here @AuntyRach but not enough to need heating.  We are promised a giddy 24C tomorrow afternoon! On a public holiday too.
I finally got going after my last post and spent over 2 hours weeding the vegetable garden.