Travelling On

Karmacat

Thanks beanie, you too

I didn't do *quite* as much gardening as I wanted, but definitely beat back the malevolent hordes of blackberry suckers and watered too. Made a date to speak with brother, he's on the school run for his eldest grandchildren at the mo, life is busy. So the only job I haven't touched in that list is the bathroom. Not bad! Though I'll have to get my act together for the post on Monday

teapot2

Busy, busy :cool: do you find that bark chips do help to keep down the weeds? I've never used them so not sure.....

Karmacat

teapot2 wrote: »

Busy, busy :cool:

I try spending a little bit less time on the computer in the morning certainly seemed to help.

do you find that bark chips do help to keep down the weeds? I've never used them so not sure.....

They certainly keep down the annuals - anything that tries to grow has to get through the bark chips before it gets to the soil, and if you catch them early enough, they're not at all firmly anchored, because the bark chips themselves are so loose. And of course, as they decompose, they add organic dooflips to the soil. All good

Perennial weeds still have to be dug out, I'm afraid!

Karmacat

I have all my sunward facing curtains closed against the heat, doing well here, to the extent that my feet are cold, even with socks on :rotfl:

Off to Egyptology today, to sign up and to take some books, to return and to donate. I've been doing SB while waking up and watching a bit of fluff taped from tv, the only thing I want to do this morning is to clean the bathroom - I'm using the shower, but not the rest of it. I want my whole bathroom back :rotfl:

beanielou

When I had bark thingys when DS was wee they ended up as none as they all disapeared over a period of time!

Karmacat

Absolutely, beanie, they kind of disintegrate into the soil gradually, you may be horrified to learn thats actually advertised as an advantage because that organic material improves the structure of the soil I think I'm going to write about it for my end of the month blog post (I better be quick!).

Egyptology was good, I'd forgotten it was focussed on the Liverpool University temporary exhibition of pre dynastic Egypt (we're talking minimum 5,000 years old here, back to 7,000 years ago!). Amazing.

Very, very hot though - I felt fine until I got in, when I went all funny - made me understand how people get into trouble and even die when they cool down from very hot For me, though, it only lasted about 5 minutes, literally, and I'm fine now. I'll be very, very careful if we get another day as hot as that.

Suffolk_lass

How are you feeling this morning KC? hopefully your funny turn was just a bit too much heat and not a lot. We got up at 0600 yesterday and had loaded up and done the dump run by 10.00 but then sat indoors for a couple of hours after getting back from our adventure, before watering and digging potatoes when the heat dropped. I also had a spacey- slightly dizzy feeling yesterday that I put down to low sugar. Don't just have water - you need your mineral salts and sugars too

Karmacat

I'm fine thanks, SL, not a problem, though not quite enough sleep! Thats a really good point about the salts and sugars - if I *do* have to go out again for anything in really hot weather, I'll put something together in my water bottle.

Its a bit of a work day today:
- write the blog (which I was drafting on my phone at 5.30 this morning, oops).
- do some gardening work in the shade.
- if I need to do something else inside today, work out how my finances are.
- brother is ringing at some time today.

There are endless things I *could* do - clean the bathroom, change the bed, put a shopping order in (I might do that, actually), research holidays.

Researching holidays:
- the Paignton based holibob, Greenway, and my word there was so much down there.
- Liverpool! The Garstang Egyptology Museum, plus a free temporary exhibition that closes in October, in space borrowed from Liverpool University. Plus the National Canal Museum on the Wirral, Jodrell Bank, the Williamson Tunnels, there's a space something or other somewhere ... there's a lot!
- Egypt. Hmmm. I'm as healthy as I'm going to get, I think. It's only going to get more difficult to go, and I don't think my sister really wants to go, she's more about scenic main holidays, or maybe 50/50. Between finances/ health/ terrorism/ geopolitical dooflips, it might or might not be possible. But I should research, to know for sure. The Egyptology Association is going out this October for 10 days (its full).

Karmacat

Wrote the blog in one go, which is good for me, checked the reimbursement of the double debit my bank did earlier in the week (yes, hurray), experimented with the same online grocery order from Asda and Sainsbo, and gave up when it got to be £6 in favour of Asda :rotfl: plus a bit of digging at the end of the garden (I *will* plant something this evening!) and cutting a bit of grass. I think the world owes me a cuppa tea

teapot2

Well done on the blog, great to have it all done in a oner Hope the planting happened, I've got some of that to do today