Best wellyboot forward. Pips frugal edible garden adventures.

beanielou

Good plan to take it easy I think
(Mind you I think your idea of easy is mine of a hard day!!!)

starnac

Hope you are taking it easy with your poorly back.

TRG's adventures sound interesting. How long is he down South for?

Pippilongstocking

Hey there Beanie - honestly I'm doing nowt.

not likey much have to say.

Starnac he's off being trained in a suburb near london. Didn't take his rock-god-cape so it can't be hard core.



Manchild made a delish frog-dans-la-bog for tea with free eggs.

Grand girls gave us 5 eggs again today.

Clever lasses so they got some leftovers.

Peedie/Haggis uber unimpressed.

lucielle

Take it easy with that bad back.
L

Greying_Pilgrim

Look after yourself Pippi. It must be frustrating to be on light duties, but the only way to mend.......

Clever chucks indeed

Greying

rtandon27

Hiya Pips - sorry to hear about your back! - glad to know you are taking it easy, even though it must be a bit frustrating to be slowed down! - Good on the girls for providing you with dinner & what a sweet lad your DS is for cooking up the dinner! - XOX - RT

Pippilongstocking

lucielle wrote: »

Take it easy with that bad back.
L

Thanks love - you broken up yet? (School not in general!)

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

Look after yourself Pippi. It must be frustrating to be on light duties, but the only way to mend.......

Clever chucks indeed

Greying

I guess it makes for a focus on other more gentle tasks. I'm walking and that's helping and lets be honest, I've been to focused on garden to notice much else.

Spent a lot of last night reading up on the perfect way to chainsaw down a tree. Whilst I have a good knowledge of the principles and have mauled (logged up) deed trees, I've never ever cut down a proper 'tree'. Coming from the land of the sacred tree, it just wasn't done. However I'm stuck in a circle of garden tasks which are a bit 'interrelated' to do the main of which hinge around move the chooks to their forever home under the soon to be gone poisonous laburnum. Sadly it has to go.

Clever lasses indeed they're becoming ever more chook like and charging at me when I arrive with treats. :T their progress is fantastic.

I saw some posh hens yesterday and whilst they looked lovely, I'm glad I got the gals the way that Mooomin suggested.

:A

rtandon27 wrote: »

Hiya Pips - sorry to hear about your back! - glad to know you are taking it easy, even though it must be a bit frustrating to be slowed down! - Good on the girls for providing you with dinner & what a sweet lad your DS is for cooking up the dinner! - XOX - RT

The sweet lad got us all up at 6am to get him to work and was a bit 'grumpsome' about the whole thing.

A bit of dinner was certainly required. :rotfl:

I hope you're good how did the thruppenny shuffle go?

Our resident chef left a whole load of cheese loot, you'd be proud of her.

:A

Pippilongstocking

Oh yesterday netted.

50p x 3 sages
£1 x 3 currant bushes (two red and a black)
£3 x 2 blueberry bushes

All in 2-3 litre pots.

Now I've always been a fan of a bargain but MSE has made me head straight to the reduced section in the garden/DIY centre these days and I'm adapting the garden to what I find.

(I also left some for others )

I did have a bit of a mini-row with a lady on the checkout who seemed insistent on supplying me with multiple carrier bags. (In Scotland we're soon to have a 'bag tax' introduced) needless to say I left without a bag, poor lady and I didn't exactly 'gel' as it were.

Maybe this sore back has made me grumpier but she nearly got a wee interaction with a currant bush around her noggin.

*violence is never the answer...................

Today's plan up with the manchild and some gentle driving, flat sorting and a walk with les mutts.

A few borrowed dishes to drop off.

Igamogam

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

I did have a bit of a mini-row with a lady on the checkout who seemed insistent on supplying me with multiple carrier bags. (In Scotland we're soon to have a 'bag tax' introduced) needless to say I left without a bag, poor lady and I didn't exactly 'gel' as it were

*de lurk*

We pay for our bags here but before it came in I had to be quite 'forceful' with checkout person when they insisted in putting 'extra' bags around vacuum packs of meat and bananas! When the penny dropped with them they said 'oh you are one of those people who likes to save bags...................' my answer no I dont what to use them in the first place,just made them looked more puzzled! Even with 'bag tax' I find they want to shower you with extra bags so I now only use self serve checkout although my OH says these checkouts put people out of work........................cant win:o

Pippilongstocking

Igamogam - its the truth you speak, so glad you've delurked. Honestly the premise that if you use less, ie reduce, is the first key in the cycle just escapes some folks.

A friend came to visit and was confuzzled by lack of carrier bags (they have a closet full) and asked how we managed, like we were in some kind of poverty state.

What about the bin she said (bedrooms) - how do you cope.

(said in the manner of a victim of a serious trauma)

[she meant well]

Um, we use pillowcases, washable bin liners. My grannie always did.

I have to say it was hard enough to explain why we use plates and bowls to cover things rather than cling and foil.

Her final comment.

'You're like a grannie.'

I took that as a compliment.



Sorry mini rant over. Life doesn't have to be disposable to be efficient surely the two aren't actually synonymous.

{End of rant}

Hello and thank you for delurking.



PS tell your lovely partner that I keep the ladies in the self checkout aisles well occupied as I'm an utter disaster with them. So no fear of anyone losing their job on my watch.