Yawn Yawn Wakey Wakey 2025

Morning all, grey and chilly here although we did see some sunshine earlier. Just having a coffee and then will go out for our usual walk.
If the weather's still iffy then I'll be back up in the loft doing more sorting out.

 

Very wet now with vertical rain so it's not going to go away anytime soon. Lunch has been eaten, lemon syrup reducing down before I add the sugar and then I'm off to sew.

Forget to mention my delight last night during the Paso class. There is a figure in Paso, rumba too, where the woman dances round her man. It's called Tour du Monde (Round the World). In future classes we will learn the Tours d'Univers where the man dances round the woman.

Recognition at last!

 

Back in my garden today for another 4 hours, raking out, pruning etc. snowdrops up. and a few flew to surprise places. Grocery shop first. have a good day.

 

Ought to go out in the garden today but can’t be bothered. It was beautifully sunny all morning, but extremely cold. We have just had quite a heavy hailstorm to add to the fun.
Went to our local women’s group yesterday afternoon, an excellent talk, followed by afternoon tea with champagne! Absolutely delicious! Finger sandwiches, scones with jam and cream, and three sorts of home made cake. I skipped lunch in anticipation, and had seconds of nearly everything! The lady who does the food does it to help a local hospice charity, and all the profits go there. It’s really turning into the highlight of the month for me!
Healthy eating today to make up for it!

 

Good afternoon, taking it easier today, though I'm getting help with the digging, I did a lot of clearing and moving things, on the plots the last two days, plus some digging at the corners and edges where the bindweed lurks. The machine being used is essentially a two wheeled tractor, with a plough attached, so it needs a clear space with no obstacles. Watching him work it, it's quite complicated with gears and levers to drive it around, too big and heavy to pull about by hand. He's going to fit the cultivating blades next he will go over my plot after he has done his own 2 , he ploughed his own much earlier in winter.
Cold and grey here we have just had a shower TBH, we need more rain we have emptied one waterbut already, watering all the pots to bring things back to life. Anyone else got tulips out already? Can't belive some of the small candy stripe ones on the steps are in flower already .

 

I just throw them in their skins @Ladybird4 loses in the drawer. They will go completely black iand very mushy almost liquid but perfect for mixing into a cake. OH doesn’t like them overripe so we often have odd ones going into the freezer. Once I have 3 or 4 it’s enough for a loaf cake.

 

My tulips are nowhere near ready, only just a hint of a bud at ground level @Allotment Boy Lots of daffs out and the forsythia is really getting going. We’ve got quite a few primroses this year, I didn’t plant them and it really varies year to year how many pop up. Mostly the native pale yellow but the odd pink one here and there.

Freezing rain now. I did grab an hour in the garden after lunch with a little sunshine. Finished putting together my patchwork path in the new veggie plot. Made up of the remaining bricks, part bricks and bits of paving we found when we originally cleared the garden. Needs bedding in, was just getting it all fitted together so there aren’t too many gaps and I like the look of it. Bit like doing a jigsaw puzzle but really pleased with how it’s coming along. I had just enough pieces left.