Lockdown Diaries: Day 26

Tomorrow is the last full day of “lockdown” and I shall be getting up at 6am to go and build some raised beds somewhere.

Today I have been here, there and everywhere doing lots of things. I am all ready for tomorrow. I also went to the allotment to collect teasel heads ready for wreath making on Wednesday at work.

Exercise today: weights – I’ve gone up to 30 reps now. Sounds impressive until you realise I use tins of beans as weights. I’ve also done 15min cycling today.

Dinner today: beef stew! Cooked for four hours. It was WELL NICE. So good. I've been a big brave girl and put in whole button mushrooms and I even ate them.

The ginger is growing well on the windowsill.

I discovered white aero bubble things today! I am excited. I love white chocolate.

My new flamingo bauble arrived today! We’re putting the tree up tomorrow. I say up, I mean, we’re bringing it in.

I am also officially on the LAST ROW OF THE BLANKET wahooooooooooo!! Although I have decided to add a few extra bits on just to make it a bit more unique.

Lockdown Diaries: Day 25

Today! A jolly good day. Pyjama gardening, chocolate eating, mantel faffing, light lighting, someone else cooking dinner. Beaut.

So today I have potted up the new christmas tree into a bigger pot. I was going to use a blue ceramic one but it weighed as much as the tree! So I used a plastic pot instead. The tree is now in a bigger pot with a mix of sand and peat free compost, and then topped off with grit. It is still out in the garden for now.

I also potted up the kitchen avocado stone today as it was putting out lots of side roots. The daffs that I planted the other day in a planter are now on the mantel with the avocado. We went to a garden centre to get a new drip tray for the tree, and a bag of grit. I may have walked out with five pots of cyclamen, four of which are now planted in the garden and the last one is in a pot on the mantel. Very mantel-ly sort of day today.

The hellebores look like they’re about to flower which is quite exciting! I do want more hellebore for the garden but I am happy to see the flower buds. Even if I did bury them with pot compost before I realised.

It’s been super foggy on our travels today.

I also found a pic of Momma P and I from last year some time and it made me laugh, so it’s here again.

FOUR ROWS LEFT. Four rows. FOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRR.

Lockdown Diaries: Day 24

Big ol’ payday shopping spree today! The fridge is stacked full, the freezer is about to burst, and the overspill cupboards are full. We should only need to go shopping for fresh fruit n veggies once more before christmas. I bought the tree today! Bell peppers have very handy trolley storage stems.

I have put santa hats on the mantel shelf things – very festive.

This morning whilst D was still in bed, I finished part 17 of Sophies Universe! I only have one part left to go and then SHE IS DONE. Done done. Proper done. All done. I’m already looking at patterns for the next project. I fancy learning how to crochet a decent pair of woollen socks.

Also filled the car up today. She was so empty the level wasn’t even showing on the gauge. I also filled mesen up with some cake at Momma P’s hoose.

My little car was packed to the brim.

Exercise today: I actually really ache from yesterday at work – I think pushing a barrow with a half-flat tyre has done it. My arms and my flanks are sore. I did still do weights this morning tho. And 2 miles walking today. Around Sainsburys.

Discovered that I’ve got a wee chunk missing out of my glasses, so that’s great.

Lockdown Diaries: Day 23

A good day today. I’ve been out with a couple of my volunteers, it’s been sunny, and we’ve had a right laugh. We have started gathering things for wreath making next week and we also made a lot of lardy seedy bird feeders. Eventually. My golly was it hard work. It wasn’t this bad last year! Anyway, we did it. 4kg of seed is now hung up around the allotment at my Selly Oak site. One of my ladies made a fat ball feeder from a piece of garden mesh rolled around into a tube and closed at one end. Well good. Pretty funny, too.

Exercise today: 10 mins cycling, 2.4 miles walking, some of that with a heavily loaded wheelbarrow with a soft tyre.

Dinner today: spaghetti and meatballs with homemade, veg loaded, sauce. There’s enough left for tomorrow. And Monday (we have a roast every Sunday). And maybe Tuesday too.

I had a soak in a bubble bath last night accompanied by some jaffa cakes and a book.

My flamingo amaryllis is now putting out three flower buds – one is tucked right at the bottom.

The sky was nice this evening. We didn’t need the frost covers on the car. Nevermind.

Lockdown Diaries: Day 22

I have been oot and aboot today! I went to the allotment this morning to get something I needed for work and while I was there, I topped up the fat ball feeders and threw a load of seed on the floor. The allotment was well and truly frozen, it had a really heavy frost all over. Looked nice though.

Work today has been all over the place. I was doing lots of measuring but I forgot the tape measures so Momma P had to come and bail me out. The tree people were at another site apparently doing the wrong tree. I’ve spent my morning on my knees drawing with chalk, I slipped up an embankment and was inches away from going face first into a huge pile of dog shit, and then I went to check the tree work at another site and the road was closed, so I went a different way I’ve never been before and lost traction on a hill and went sideways, nearly into someones car. Sigh.

On the upside, I have been named ‘employee of the quarter’ along with five or six others. Two awards for the Midlands team so that’s good, especially as there is only 7 or 8 of us total.

Exercise today: I may have done weights this morning but I can’t remember that far back. I was going to go on the bike but my brain is all over the place. I’ve walked 1.6 miles apparently.

Dinner tonight: pizza. Again. No shame. We ordered Dominos because hella lazy. It’s been a right day today.

The cars were frozen this morning and tomorrow it is set to be -2, so we’ve put the covers on the car.

The corn salad (lambs lettuce) seed are poking up but I cannot help but feel they chose the wrong time to grow! They are winter hardy but the compost is frozen.

I might go and lie in the barth.