Adventures of a Laura: April 2023

Well, we’re a whole third of the way through the year already. Our month started with a three course posho meal followed by a dance routine and strip tease done by West Mercia Search and Rescue. They didn’t leave their hats on.

Crochet

Once again I feel like I haven’t had a very creative month and then I look back on Instagram and I’ve done loads. In April I made, fixed, or finished:

· All of my blankets and cushion covers had their spring wash

· I made two mice

· A pair of woollen wristwarmers as a gift for a colleague

· Attempted teeny tiny micro crochet

· Made lots more granny squares

· Did more rows on the new blanket project

· Pattern tested for a lady on Instagram and made a chunky crochet decorative tray

· Played with the glue gun and made a crappy spring wreath

Craft club was good, slightly lower numbers as it was Good Friday but still a decent turn out.

Allotment

I have cut my first lot of herbs to dry and they’re hanging up in my shed on the hook racks I put up earlier this year. I have sown more parsnip, carrot, radish, and spring onion – so I shall be utterly overrun with them this year all being well! The pear tree has blossom for the first time, but I don’t think the almond will have much fruit on. It’s really suffering with peach leaf curl so I might need to remove it and burn it next winter.

Exercise

I started hula hooping because I’ve been feeling really crappy and lethargic again, and then I started a period that lasted for 22 days. I really need to learn to listen to my body. I am still going for a one mile walk every morning when I’m at the office.

Work

I have been working on a huge project and getting trained up in lots of areas, so that’s good.

Mental Health

Not been great, but I have been bleeding for most of April so ya know.

Cat Life

He is still here and still floofy and still a pooperton.

Physical Health

I really need to put my mind into getting more active this year. I did start going on the exercise bike too, but that lasted all of three days.

Money

Had a payrise! Wahoo! Still negative £75 by the time everything has gone out, though.

Garden

Is looking really REALLY good. The big bed is filling out nicely and I’ve counted 86 out of 88 gladioli. I dug an extension bit and planted 9 peonies and a forsythia shrub, as well as some donated things from Momma P. I go out in the evenings and do about 5 minutes of weeding and pulling up clumps of grass and I’m slowly getting on top of it. T’is the season for pulling up balsam seedlings before they flower.

I started 10 varieties of squash, gourd, and pumpkin in 24 pots. More is more? The sunflowers have been slugged and the liatris will take over the world.