Travelling On

Karmacat

Isn't it amazing how we're attracted to walled gardens? A microcosm sounds like a great idea for a garden of our own, SL, thats a good aim for me, actually.

Not too much today, as I have such intense activity tomorrow morning (the auction! have to be out of the house just after 8am, yikes). I want to do some watering here, before the sun gets on it, little bits and bobs, nothing too special.


ETA I should make a list:
- do a load of washing.
- water plants before the sun gets round to them.
- prepare dishwasher, and breakfast tomorrow, which needs to be grabngo.
- find fabric my sister wants for a piece of patchwork for her DiL.
- shower, using my lovely new shower cap :rotfl:

Thats the must-do.

Karmacat

Ta-da list:

- do a load of washing.
done

- water plants before the sun gets round to them.
done

- prepare dishwasher, and breakfast tomorrow, which needs to be grabngo.
done. Well, not breakfast, but that won't take a mo.

- find fabric my sister wants for a piece of patchwork for her DiL.
done, and packed ready.

- shower, using my lovely new shower cap :rotfl:
water's hot, fresh clothes ready, just got to check the garden one last time and I'm there.

I also worked on the patch at the bottom of the garden again: not only weeding, but laying chippings, since I realised that when my garden gate actually worked, I got 3 big bags of chippings into the back garden.

And I sorted the birthday list: the modern genealogy is almost up to date, but "France" and "Ireland" and "Sri Lanka" aren't really good enough as wedding locations - bit more info needed :rotfl:

Fortune_Smiles

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

Botheration indeed. Those kind of minor vexations are, well, vexatious excellent news on the rosemary though! :j you've reminded me I have a couple of small plants that I propagated from the Bush at our old house so I'd really rather not lose them - they need getting out of the pot and into the ground pronto (I've been putting it off because I don't know where to put them which is ridiculous given how much space we have :rotfl: Just need to get them in the ground somewhere - I can always move them later after all!

Hi Cheery

planting rosemary by the front door is supposed to keep harm from entering but it will only flourish in homes where the mistress is the master! My rosemary is doing very well at the moment :rotfl:

Fortune x



Rosemary flourishes where the mistress is the master.

Fortune_Smiles

I really love the 'Ta Da' list Karma - might pinch that one

Fortune x

teapot2

Is this the book being sold tomorrow at auction? If so, hope it does really well and you enjoy the day despite an early start.

beanielou

Have a good day tomorrow

earthgirl

Have a great day Karma.

We have a Rosemary bush that is taking over - came from a small plant for £2 and is now as big as an armchair. Guess that means I'm in charge then

themadvix

Hope book goes well and you have a lovely day Karma! I enjoyed the auction mum and I went to recently... Amazing what people will pay for (in some cases) old tut (some of the stuff we saw was in really poor condition,and this was supposedly a fine art and antiques auction).

Didn't know that about rosemary, very interesting. Have been meaning to get one for a while so will put it by the door.

Karmacat

teapot2 wrote: »

Is this the book being sold tomorrow at auction? If so, hope it does really well and you enjoy the day despite an early start.

beanielou wrote: »

Have a good day tomorrow

themadvix wrote: »

Hope book goes well and you have a lovely day Karma! I enjoyed the auction mum and I went to recently... Amazing what people will pay for (in some cases) old tut (some of the stuff we saw was in really poor condition,and this was supposedly a fine art and antiques auction).

Thanks all! Yep, the auction was this morning, and we were there madly early, though at least that gave us a chance to check out the lots on sale. Interesting that the only other person we spoke to also lied about why they were there. We lied said we were thinking about putting something in, and this woman said she'd put something in. But she was making notes about what everything sold for people who've just got a couple of things to sell don't make notes like that.



If I was a professional, I'd be buying up the lovely Georgian dressing tables and upcycling them - £30-£40, and utterly beautiful. But brown, nobody wants brown! I'll go back another time and watch the furniture and cat ornaments being sold - its quite boring watching books being auctioned off, in case you didn't know



So, the book sold! It wasn't out on the shelves with the other books - we reckon it was because the reserve was comparatively high. But it sold - for £280. No idea how much we'll get: seller's commission of 15% + VAT, insurance of 1.5% + VAT. If we're lucky, we might get £70 each



We had a pootle around the little town concerned, which has lots of arty stuff, it was great fun. Then I popped in to Waitrose - and, oh my days, I've bought some lovely looking bread, full of gluten :eek: I just couldn't stop myself :eek: I'll freeze it, but I've had a couple of slices :eek:

Karmacat

earthgirl wrote: »

We have a Rosemary bush that is taking over - came from a small plant for £2 and is now as big as an armchair. Guess that means I'm in charge then

themadvix wrote: »

Didn't know that about rosemary, very interesting. Have been meaning to get one for a while so will put it by the door.

So interesting about our plants! I'm definitely in charge in this house I haven't seen the plant this morning of course, I hope its happy. Will check in a bit.