Best wellyboot forward. Pips frugal edible garden adventures.

Karmacat

You've reminded me! Three years after cutting back the ivy outside my back door, the quince tree thats there is showing a couple of dozen quinces :beer: its pretty exotic, but I'm going to be making quince jelly :j

starnac

Blimey!! I've just had to catch up on 3 pages worth of chatter!!

Scarlet looks so lovely now.
Hope job works out the way you want.
Great shopping

Anything else?? Can't remember it all now!

:hello: to everyone. I'll try not to stay away so long next time

Pippilongstocking

Yay to quince jelly such a bonnie plant well done KC.

Starnac that's about it.

Heard nowt about the job thus far.

Posted off some letters to other local businesses touting my skills.

Off to find out about volunteering, walk les mutts, do some post and drop off/pick up a stove and look for a cold water fill pipe for the new machine. Will have a neb about the local places with cards up too. Never hurts.

Combining journeys or what.

Suns out so hope you all have a good un.

Remind me to move my courgettes into the greenhouse and see if I can have a last wee blast at them. Possibly some of the tomatoes too.

The joys of veggie gardening in pots

Karmacat

Pippi, what do you use your greenhouse for? A guy I know online with a *very* small smallholding uses his to grow his seedlings, and not much after that - so this year, he put melons in, with no actual heating. He's just started eating them :j and they're little but perfectly formed :rotfl:

Bit further south than you tho

Pippilongstocking

Aye KC that sounds grand.

(Just in kettles on)

Greenhouse has only been up for a while but the thought is to do the same kinda use it mostly through the worst of the weather and then put something in it a bit more tropical.

Currently tis empty...................

So most of my 'outside the homestead chores done' - drove 40 miles in total of my 250

Now for a cuppa and some work before some outside in the garden action.

No post, no calls, all in all the house has been safely slumbering in my absence

Must try that washer in a bit too - ah luxury.

Pippilongstocking

KC I guess our small holding, in the manner of a cadbury's bournville type garden is about the same size to feed a family of 4.

Which is inspiring from such a relatively confined space.

I am now also a Botanic Garden volunteer starting next week, helping out. Made me perk up a bit after other stuff this week.

Posted two letters for speculative job searching at local gardens/plant nurseries. Something is bound to turn up. Keep eyes peeled tonight about p/t work in local town.

Must do a proper budget...............I'm not super poor, not rolling in it either and so many things to be grateful for. So if I can keep the spends down, all will be well even with the reduced personal income.

And there are so many ways I can contribute positively at home, I should remember that.

Karmacat

You contribute in all sorts of ways, Pippi, of course you do - look at the different things you write about on here, and your blog too! And feeding a family from your own little smallholding - thats really impressive in its own right.

I'm sure a paid job you like will turn up soon, presumably there's more choice where you are now than when you were on the island? You have a Botanic Garden for starters, I didn't realise thats what BG stood for when you mentioned it in a post yesterday :rotfl: That sounds like its going to be marvellous - keep your eyes peeled while you're there, won't you

Pippilongstocking

Aye KC you're right - its about giving myself permission to live and not dash around like a lunatic. BG's are my fave stomping ground and as they're education based they suit me down to the ground, we'll see eh.

So, washing machine isn't working however UTUBE diagnositics and a couple watches of a video or two later I have decided and come to the conclusion, it is the belt.

This is confirmed by the fact there IS NO BELT.

Nice man on UTUBE showed me how to see if it was slipped off or broken, or in this case missing.

£7.75 for a new belt which is *polishes halo* very easy to fit.

OH 'raging' and wanting to just send it back to man.
He did say it was working, we asked him several times.

Ponders what to do. I'm happy enough to order a belt as it was a cheap machine but unless the belt fell off miraculously during the 4 miles we transported it I think perhaps the chap was a bit confused or a chancer.

Unless its fallen off when he moved it - that could be possible.
Also possible is that its in TRG's car from transporting it last night.

Will consult with himself later.

Am however chuffed to have (possibly) got to the bottom of the problem.

Snacky tea then I'm out.

rtandon27

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

...And there are so many ways I can contribute positively at home, I should remember that...

:jOf course you do Pips! Don't you ever doubt it!!!:j

Karmacat

Tough one about the belt! Kudos to you for learning how to fix it ... but returning a private sale item, and getting your money back, might be a bit difficult ... good luck though, whichever you decide.