Monday 1st July 2013
Half the interest of the garden is the constant exercise of the
imagination.
Mrs. C. W. Earle
Mrs. C. W. Earle
WOWsers, half way through the year, first July already, I
cannot believe how fast that has gone!
My mom is 75 on Saturday, it doesn’t seem five minutes since her 60th
when I took her to Nepal to see Everest, or the year we did England, Scotland
and Ireland in a fortnight, we drove through Wales on the way home that holiday
just to say we’d done all of Great Britain ;-).
Lots of lovely memories and all seem not that long ago! This birthday won’t involve a holiday,
instead I will have finished her garden by then and we can enjoy relaxing in it
every day it’s dry and enjoy looking at it through the window on the wet days.
Yesterday I built a rock garden (of a sort) and planted
heathers to form a border between the slate scree and the plants that will have
bark mulch put in-between them to keep the weeds down. By the
end of the day I was seizing up and had a job getting up off the floor, but
once I’d had a bath and a glass of the red stuff I was fine, I’ve had a
cracking nights sleep and feel fabulous this morning Loving the manual work I have to admit, so next
weekend it’s putting bark down, then I will start painting the new fence panels
on the right side of the garden, probably brown but who knows anything could
happen between now and then to change my mind, after all I only decided about the
rock garden Saturday night when I remembered some wooden stumps from our fallen
fence and then noticed some terracotta plant pots in a skip at the end of the
street!
If you’d like to look at my progress here’s the link to
the album of what I’ve done so far.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151669473835862.1073741840.595730861&type=1&l=3511196710
Doesn’t the sunshine make a massive difference to how you
feel, how everyone reacts when you’re out and about and it just makes the
weekend perfect. It would be wonderful
if we could have the next two months full of sunny weekends, especially as the
kids will be breaking up from school any time now.
Since dropping my Monday morning meeting I now feel like
I actually get a weekend to enjoy, I’d got to the point where I was spending
the weekend just getting my energy back from my working week and as I’ve already
pointed out at the start of this blog, life goes by way too quickly without us
spending all of it working and recovering.
So today is MomDay, I will see if she fancies a drive
somewhere, otherwise we’ll both enjoy sitting in the garden, I’ve got some
signs to varnish. Oh I want a ‘public
footpath’ post sign like you get in the countryside for up my garden, if you
know of anywhere that sells them let me know, I’ll google it later ;-)
Diet wise, I hardly thought about food yesterday at all,
we had fish pie for tea which was lush, I had a ½ packet of almonds for my
breakfast weirdly, which I ate whilst walking round the car boot sale, I hardly
did any of it because I’d only took £40 and found a plant man selling big
plants cheap so I spent my money fast, then I had to go get car to pick them up
in and therefore came home, I did get myself a nice metal thing for £2 to use
as an ornament, it’s a cobblers tool that you put the shoes on, my granddad was
a cobbler so it’ll make us remember him when we’re in the garden – a wonderful
man he was.
Time for a nice walk with Alfie I think, hoping he
fancies a good one this morning because it’s beautiful out there again today.
Make it marvellous Monday, I know it’s the least popular
day of the week for most but remember you get one of them every 7 days so you need
to learn to love them. Xx
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