Breaking Through, Travelling On

Hi there! I'm amazed at how many apples there are in this area, completely unpicked too. I'm really starting to understand what Alys Fowler was on about

Just been doing a little bit of strategic thinking on blogs, how to publicise etc, and also yet more chopping back of the front border - my aim is now to get it emptied of all the meaningless crap, dig it over a little bit (carefully! there's worms in there) put some fresh soil in, plus some bark chippings, and let it all sit over the winter. Then fresh planting come spring.

The following plants have been told they've been invited to stay a hazel and 3 roses, which all have to be properly pruned; a heather and a forsythia (if it lives, something funny happened there ). The rest is pretty much useless, and not fun to look at either; and oh, there are seasonal bulbs in there too: grape hyacinths for one lot, lily of the valley for another, and those poisonous looking little ones with bright red berries.

Replacements are being investigated via Poyntzfield Herb Nursery, who come highly recommended.

The back garden has had a lift: an online friend with a smallholding has sent me 3 bulbs of the garlic he's been breeding for 10 years :j I'll take some time out from the front border to prepare a nice planting site in the back garden.

I do have plans, RT, whether or not I live here permanently - I want plants that are useful, as well as easily looked after :j the beautiful ones will remain too, like the grape hyacinths, I love them.

Not doing badly today :j done a blog post, worked out how to post on pinterest (got to figure out the rest of it) and done a load of washing, which is on the line.

Pinterest is funny - its like the early days of the web, when there was only dial up, and I didn't get any emails because nobody I knew had an email address :rotfl: and going online meant surfing from one site and one link to another. Pinterest currently feels like a visual version of that

On with the rest of my list - phoning business partner, doing and *sending* those birthday cards, listening to the dratted webinar, and texting my sister.

And doing more work on the front border :cool:






Nature Notes: a magpie sat on my windowsill this morning!

And so it goes .... nowadays, I sometimes get complaints (by email) if I haven't answered an email within an hour between checking the answerphone, the email, and the mobile for texts, its quite a business these days :rotfl:

Right, today is my delayed Wednesday work, but fortunately not too much cleaning to do beforehand.

I have a cat blog ready to post, and more visuals to [STRIKE]play with[/STRIKE] research thanks to lovely peeps on here, you know who you are :j:j:j

Managed a fair bit the last few days - one blog post ready, another half dozen or so plotted out, pinterest populated (very odd place, but my smallholder friend has also joined, oh dear, I hope I haven't misled him :eek: ) cards sent, even part of the dratted CPD has been done.

To do:
- a bit more tidiness is called for.
- ever such a slight amount of cleaning is called for
- blogposts R Us.
- mucking about with Flickr cat images Is Also Us
- unfortunately, fingernails bent below the quick Is Also Us never put thick gardening gloves on and muck around with digging up roots when you have your nails long :eek: they'll recover but still ...