Daffy's 'a nice cup of tea cheers you up' diary

Cheery_Daff

Thanks for the tip NL! :T :T

Oh, and I actually did buy a trowel in the shop before you offered yours! So I already have one, thank you, please donate yours to another worthy cause But thank you very much anyway! :j :j I love this place

Gorgeous morning today! :j :j 3 days off work just feels FABULOUS right now SO MUCH the right thing to do I think! :j :j :j

Lying in bed this morning thinking about the garden, and deciding that I AM going to smash up a bit of the path to build my seating area. Sent a text to 8 friends who I thought it might be possible would have a sledgehammer :rotfl: Several replies:

1) Yes, I'll bring it this afternoon :j
2) No, but I've got a mattock, you can have that
3) no, but I've got a pickaxe
4) no, but I've got a rubber mallet
4a) (same person) actually, my partner has a pneumatic drill
5) I've got a mini sledgehammer, is that any good??

:rotfl: So now I have more sledgehammer-type-things than I know what to do with :rotfl: I'm going to use the one that is getting delivered to me this very afternoon :rotfl:

So far the day is looking like this

Reading and breakfast in bed :j
Nice leisurely bath :j
Quick whizz over the forum fence :j

And planned...

- Out into the garden to move the compost bin and measure up for a cold frame Mr Daffs will build :j :j
- quick lunch
- drive over to Bakewell for an amble round, then meet friend (with sledgehammer :rotfl:) for a cuppa
- er, that's it so far!

Tomorrow will be mostly sledgehammer-weilding I guess, and sewing with a friend in the evening :j :j

See, I SO only need to work part time, I LOVE having half the week off! :rotfl:

ZTD

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

Lying in bed this morning thinking about the garden, and deciding that I AM going to smash up a bit of the path to build my seating area. Sent a text to 8 friends who I thought it might be possible would have a sledgehammer :rotfl: Several replies:

1) Yes, I'll bring it this afternoon :j
2) No, but I've got a mattock, you can have that
3) no, but I've got a pickaxe
4) no, but I've got a rubber mallet
4a) (same person) actually, my partner has a pneumatic drill
5) I've got a mini sledgehammer, is that any good??

:rotfl: So now I have more sledgehammer-type-things than I know what to do with :rotfl: I'm going to use the one that is getting delivered to me this very afternoon :rotfl:

If it's thick concrete, take the one with the pneumatic drill. You'll only make that mistake once...

redsquirrel80

That sounds like a good day to me! I'm impressed by the range of implements your friends have available :rotfl:

Firewalker

Cheery, saw your blog - looking good though I do not understand gardening. But cheery living fits well with my agenda (she says and retreats stuffily).

Firewalker

EssexHebridean

ZTD wrote: »

If it's thick concrete, take the one with the pneumatic drill. You'll only make that mistake once...

I'm thinking that we are talking of the kind of impact that your neck and shoulders are still feeling several days later?!

Daffs I've been awol for a few days sorry - wretched real life getting in the way again - but it sounds like a thoroughly cheery time has been being had, so good for you! We finally got some bits planted at the weekend so our "garden" such as it is - is now underway for the year. I'm meant to be sowing nasturtiums and sweet-peas a little later on to get those started before planting out - we sowed them direct last year and had a bit of a failure, and as nasturtium leaves are very definately food in this house, we are keen to do better this time!

Cheery_Daff

Hi EH! :j :j Real life does get in the way sometimes, doesn't it?? :rotfl: Pah. I've never had much success with nasturtiums sadly Shame as I love eating the flowers

Been out and moved the compost bin :j :j ONly took 45 minutes, and wasn't half as grim as I thought, didn't smell bad at all, lots of well rotted stuff at the bottom, and got 2 large planters full of nearly-almost-rotted compost :j :j :j Have moved the bin, and split it into two, and now I've got a nice big space in the sunniest part of the garden ready for my seating area :j :j :j

Ooh, must ask pippi about moving magnolias - mine is right in the way! :rotfl: :rotfl:

Just scoffing a pancake, then off to Bakewll in the sunshine :j :j

Pippilongstocking

Hope you had fun!

Cheery_Daff

I did indeed Pippi, it was lovely And we appear to have formed a Carpenters tribute band :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Friend is now coming to stay - will be here in 20 minutes, hopefully he's going straight to bed - and then we're off to a birthday party

Lemon_Tree

oh i lurve the Carpenters!!!!!
well done for getting loads done today, i want access to a jack hammery type thing as we have a huge step about 4ft wide and 8 ft long which really only needs to be half this size, and i want to get shut of it and replace it. But i think it's gonna be a huggggggggeeeeeee job and OH won't even contemplate it! not sure why though lol

Cheery_Daff

WEll, my daft friend forgot to bring the sledgehammer, so I've acquired a pneumatic drill at a party we went to at 10.30 last night :rotfl: :rotfl: So - that's my afternoon entertainment sorted out :rotfl: (although hopefully it'll only take me five minutes!)

So last night was lovely :j :j Friend got here, we had a cuppa, then parcelled him off up to bed, and me and Mr Daffs went off to a little party :j Saw some frogs in a back garden pond, very cheery, and had some very lovely chilli, and some rosemary tea (remind me to make that myself! :j) Also potentially arranged sewing for tonight too :j :j

Today will be cheery too - I'm on holiday, rather than on strike today I'm popping to a friend's for a cuppa at 10am, then playing with the pneumatic drill for a bit, then picking up a pick axe, and getting the whole path out :j :j Then I might see if I can move the magnolia (thanks to Pippi's excellent text-a-gardener advice :j :j), and start thinking about building a wall!

I'm also going to ring a friend about some idle flute tooting today or tomorrow - I REALLY do want to play more, and am so feeble about it because I'm surrounded by fabulous musicians all the time :rotfl: So am now going to take every opportunity to get me back into it again :j :j

Then sewing this evening! I busy day I reckon And I'd like to fit in a run

Pancakes first of course Bunging a bit of coconut milk in the mixture this morning - very tasty!

Hope you're all in for a cheery one :j :j