Best wellyboot forward. Pips frugal edible garden adventures.

Pippilongstocking

Goodluck to Mr L - hope all goes well will cross fingers today for you Lucielle.

Pippilongstocking

Morning lands.

Yesterday ended with a beach and a mini flurry of activity in the garden.

Yes dear hearts the lavender is in. I tell myself this is productive for the bees and I can cook with it and use it to fragrance the house.



Fish for tea yesterday and one of the blocks was off (a pressie in a bag with other food) grr. So made two pieces feed three with lots of extra veg we did baked fish parcels which are yummy and quite healthy.

Tea in the garden, this weather is lovely if a bit insane. It can't always be like this surely?

4 miles walked yesterday so slowly getting the miles back up to five.

Today a busy one - some work, a garden visit and an 'induction' for volunteering at the castle.



Tyres done yesterday. Honestly as often as they get replaced you'd think I ate them or something.

Anyway must shake me self and get a wriggle on.



Happy Tuesday folks.

Tea is spag bog already made and in the fridge.

Must walk hounds before off and feed chooks.

Have a great day.

Might be a NSD as we need nowt.

beanielou

Hope all goes well
Happy Tuesday Pippi & friends.

rtandon27

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Cook with lavender??? Do tell???

beanielou

Lavande ice cream is soooo lush

Pippilongstocking

beanielou wrote: »

Lavande ice cream is soooo lush

Its yummy as is lavender shortbread

Lots of lavender recipes here

Not tried many so be an interesting one to have a go at.



I'm awa' tae the castle the noo.

Lets see if they'll let me [STRIKE]meddle[/STRIKE] help in the walled garden.

Updates cos I know we all love them

Sweetcorn is flowering people
Cucumbers are beginning to swell
Tomatoes are going red

104 eggs to date.

Clever garden.

Pippilongstocking

Mornings lands.

Yesterday was a NSD - hooray.

I'm now signed up for a bit of sanity aka volunteering work at local natty establishment.

A bit of work yesterday too and some head scratching later doing some more.

Hens good. Managed a wee walk out 3 miles in total all day bit shoddy but in right direction.

Meals from freezers/fridges and probably will be today.

Hound is a snoring beside me todays a day of greyness and chores/work I think.

Why not.

Kettle on.

Greying_Pilgrim

:wave: to Pipster and the snoring dawgies

Good job the Natty T lot snapped you up - now can they do the decent thing and find you something with a salary attached ...

Have a great day Pips and fellow Stripey Gang chums

Greying

Pippilongstocking

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

:wave: to Pipster and the snoring dawgies

Good job the Natty T lot snapped you up - now can they do the decent thing and find you something with a salary attached ...

Have a great day Pips and fellow Stripey Gang chums

Greying

Seemed like a really lovely bunch of folks Greying and they were very handy with the kettle too.

Walled garden is totally organic and I learnt yesterday if you plant woad, the moles run away from your garden something interesting there. I only knew it as a dye plant but I've read they're looking to increase production of as an eco-friendly printer ink in the UK. So that was the new thing I learned yesterday woad for eco-friendly inks and to ask the moles to leave your garden alone.

I also met a 200 year old pear tree, not every day you can say that.

Have a good one yourself me dear.

:A

Pippilongstocking

Today needs a list or I'll get nowt done.

*this list might take a wee while* please don't faint.


Garden
Tidy wood to shed
Start to move logs to stack by house
Tidy up BBQ
Feed plants
Water chilli's and feed
Gravel over lavender bed
Pick peas
Deadhead flowers/veg and feed to chooks
Mow grass if dries up
Chop up last of the laburnum stragglers (or at least do 1/2 hour)
Sweep up terrace (if dry)
Check for slugs/snails and get rid

Hoose
Tidy kitchen
Put stove on if stays yuk and do some cooking whilst its on
Portion up spag bog
Freeze extra cheese
Tea - just me and the manchild - HM pizza?
Sweep mop kitchen
Declutter utility room
Look at grub and see what to order for next month - we've loads left
Hoover sunny room and de-fly, tidy up windowsills
Organise books into cupboard
Hoover cosy room and set fire for future
*dust shelves*
Fill up stick bins
Move more books
Bathrooms a quick wheech aboot with a cloot
Hall a quick mop/wash
Bedroom declutter some clothes its epic in there or at least tidy up.

Work
Leaflet to finish - ongioing.
FB/Web to do some updating on
Invoice to write and send
Research for a garden job - started.
Co-orindinate with garden guru for coming up in Sept for teaching
Organise diary for next week or so and put in any extra things I know already

Life admin
Passport - DS
WTC update and sign off for me
More stuff for flat to do - tomorrow
Council tax to change
SAAS change address for DD
Banks/Etc move some money about
Train for weekend for DS to book

Health/Fun
Feed chooks
Feed mutts
Walk mutts
Bit yoga? Set up Wii
Nutritious and yummy lunch which I can pick just for me!
Vase of flowers for the living room
Chop more wood cos I love it.
Talk to a chum
Update challenges
Blog needs work to update it
Update wellybook page.
Nice bath I think would be lovely while house is nice and quiet.

alternatively I could just go to bed with a book!