Best wellyboot forward. Pips frugal edible garden adventures.

Cheery_Daff

Me too, always feels like a waste somehow! But then sometimes it's best to save yourself being annoyed everyday when you've got the wrong thing ...

:rotfl: at you being mucky We were the same when we lived on boat with no washing machine (actually we have a washing machine now and i'm not much cleaner!! :rotfl: )

started making arrangements to view a house :eek: scary stuff. But it has rather a cheery garden that a jolly wee dog would enjoy chasing some chickens round I'm quite excited (although also terrified)

lucielle

Sometimes you have to bite the bullet and get exactly what you need or it'll bug you.

Sounds exciting Cheery.
L

Karmacat

You're so good with your hands, Pippi, I bet you could repurpose something and it'd be as good as bought-in staging

Dreich here too - the kind of rain where I have to peer out the window to see if it *is* raining, and then realise its tipping down!

Pippilongstocking

Morning lands - how are you all today.

Its sunny here - woop woop.

So yesterday I ended up lowering the garden for access between the lawn and the veg garden, edged the lawn with used bricks saved from the summer, looks quite nice, its low enough to mow over the bricks. And I built up the side of the lawn where I moved the giant rocks which you couldn't move over so now I'm hoping mowing will be relatively hassle free. And lawn is now titchy. But enough for a picnic.

KC - I've a mind to try and make something but have limited pallets, we'll see I'm sure something will work. But like L says its going to bug me if it isn't right. Ponder ponder (waves to both.)

And cheery that DOES sound exciting. Do tell more and peedie says if you want to test out the garden anytime, he's available. And so do the chooks. How many are you thinking of.

Todays plan is a NDD like yesterday as Dh has the car. I've wood to chop and more beds to edge to get this garden going.

A bit of paid work but not much and a very cheerful invoice to write

Suns out so best get a wriggle on. Saw a chum last night and went to cinema, we've decided to have a 'girlie date night' once a month. Its lovely to be so close to folks that I can catch up.

must do a list. Meal plan kinda went to plan.

Today is date night with himself so not sure what the plan is but it will likely be fun.

Still hunting for wood I can buy in 'biscuits' so I can chop logs myself but so far no luck, might need to order some actual chopped logs.

I can't say I'm a fan of this, I do like to chop my own. More research required. We've three trees to cut down here which will help but they aint going to work for the rest of my life.

Cheery_Daff

You'd think someone would have some logs you could buy! (or maybe they make MUCH more money chopping them into little bits and selling them for 10 times the cost?!)

Lovely to be able to catch up with folks

Not even thought about number of chickens yet :eek: Going to chase re viewing once I'm dressed (don't feel serious enough on the phone in my purple fluffy dressing gown) but can't see it'll come to anything. If we end up there I will personally come and collect Peedie for road testing the garden I'm sure he'll find every available escape route before we get our own dog! :rotfl:

beanielou

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rtandon27

Wow Pips you are back in fine form! I'm just tired reading what you are up to today!;)

I'm working from home - mostly uninterrupted peace and quiet - lovely to be able to form an entire thought without being interrupted!

Had some reduced posh foccacia for brunch - who pays £3 for a 300g loaf? We paid 90p and thought that was right pricey for a mark-down, but oh it was lovely fragrant with rosemary and olive oil!

We also had a score with MrW over an exploding bottle of (cheap) wine! OH opened it and it went everywhere! - wine is not supposed to do that! Had to clean down my walls - took the paint off! Smelt sour and had bubbles so we returned it & got a refund and a free replacement of equivalent value! Today we received £25 of vouchers from customer service with an acknowledgement that it might have been fermenting - though they deemed it to smell and taste just fine. Whomever tested it can't be a wine drinker - it was bubbly vinegar! So now we get to dream up what to spend the vouchers on - such an unexpected treat - OH wants more wine - I'd like posh ice-cream and steak (not together mind you) - reality is we'll eek it out on red-sticker bargains and cupboard staples - we know how to live it up - eh?:D

starnac

How do you buy logs in "biscuits"? That wouldn't make good dunking!!! :rotfl:

Yay to invoices! Make sure you get them in. Which reminds me- I did an agency shift, must get my time sheet for that in today

Enjoy date night

Karmacat

Yikes to exploding wine! Thats definitely not supposed to happen!

As Starnac says, Pippi, enjoy date night

cazmanian_minx

Have you got the space for a full 25 tonne load? Can give you a contact number - £750+delivery and it lasts us about 6/7 years of the woodburner being on nearly every day.