Travelling On

beanielou

Enjoy your weekend.

Staffordia

Hoping the weather improves next week as we are spending a few days in North Norfolk in the motorhome.  It's the end of May so surely it has to start picking up soon?
I've enjoyed getting back out in the world, had lunch in a cafe and met a friend in the local pub for a drink, we hadn't seen her since November and it was so nice to not be freezing sitting outside. 

Karmacat

Staffordia, how lovely!  North Norfolk is so wonderful - actually, my Norfolk rellies are holidaying at Wells-next-the-Sea themselves next week    And I just love the idea of a motorhome - I hope you and your OH have a brilliant time  

Once I'm three weeks past the second vaccine, I'll be more open to buying prepared food and drink - though even in Somerset at the end of next month, my sister and I will be taking our own lunches, I think.  

Today ... hmm, it's drizzly.  And some of my Sarah Raven cuttings are arriving today, so I'll be preparing for them, heading for some easy gardening wins, and doing a bit more of the genealogy notes for the Yorkshire family.

Here's hoping everyone has a lovely day  

ETA - the office!  I'm a third of the way through tidying it (many more papers lying about than I thought - got to continue with it now, it's almost impassable for now).

Staffordia

Karmacat said:

Staffordia, how lovely!  North Norfolk is so wonderful - actually, my Norfolk rellies are holidaying at Wells-next-the-Sea themselves next week    And I just love the idea of a motorhome - I hope you and your OH have a brilliant time  

What a coincidence, so are we!  Once your three week deadline passes I hope that you will be pleasantly surprised at how efficient and safe cafes and restaurants are now.  They have done so much to be Covid secure that I am more than happy to support them, although the MSE in me still likes to take my own food and drinks on some days out.

Karmacat

That would be lovely, absolutely.  I'm looking forward to joining in a bit of the fun  

Right, my plantpots and their drainage stones are ready, come on little basil plants, you can make it!  I'm going to finish my cuppa, then start on the genealogy, I can see the front gate from where I'm sitting, no chance of missing out on my little cuttings.

Karmacat

What a day to be a gardener!  My basil plants arrived (no knock on the door, just left on the step, thanks bunches) and I was pootling about getting things set up to pot them on when I noticed the rain was kind of heavy.  Hail!  Lots of it.  Ran outside to get the sage seedlings and their soil was covered with hailstones, luckily not quite big enough to damage the leaves.  I got absolutely soaked - from the eight foot long puddle, and the cloudburst of hail  

Repotted basil (much smaller than the sage) and I think I've over-watered them.  I also think I'm not using seed potting compost correctly - need to put perlite in to help things drain?  One is drowning, I think, the others have perked up.  I have a 9cm pot of angelica coming, which I think I'll just put on the patio in it's pot (table provides a good enough shelter by this time of year) and the mint seedlings too, once they've been repotted.  It was definitely the right idea to buy seedlings, this is plenty of faff for me

Couple more bits of work on the genealogy, and I've completed this whole branch of the family.  Still very rainy, so I'll work on the office - as I mentioned on Cheery's thread, tidying things up/away is helpful to get the place easier to clean after workmen are here to replace two big windows, which are wobbling.  And howling!

Karmacat

The drowning basil recovered!  Yay!

Office tidy up had spinoff benefits to the 2nd bedroom, all sorts of little tidy benefits  

My poor sister has an ordinary virus, not covid, so she's stashed herself on her sofa, and I'm holding myself ready to whizz over there on public transport if need be.

Zoom seminar this morning, on using newspapers for genealogy - I can't seem to even download zoom onto my laptop, so I had to switch to the phone, managed to catch the last half.  Not bad, and there's a crib sheet they sent afterwards.

Planning this afternoon: 
- distributing photos of the birthday cake that appeared on facebook  
- carry on with the tidying - its the kind of project that *has* to be finished.
- be naughty and look at the online newspapers I learned about this morning
- can't do anything in the garden unless I stand on the patio, the ground is completely waterlogged.  So I might do a little bit of that, after:
- a cookery experiment.  Finally cooking some quinoa.  I don't have a fine enough sieve to rinse it properly, so I'll use some muslin.  

Karmacat

Birthday cake photo distributed, weeding of the patio edges and the patio itself, and cookery experiment - horrendously successful    the little seeds *didn't* fall through my sieve, completely easy to cook, I was making such a fuss, and it's been a total success    And it's as compact as rice, unlike pasta, which isn't compact at all  
I reckon I can go look at some newspapers online now  

rtandon27

Lovely ta-da list KC!  Love the idea of tidying spiraling out of control (in a good way.)  So sorry to hear your sis is down with a virus, hope she feels better soon & glad it's not the dreaded C-word.

With you on the sloshing garden dilemma - while waiting for the plumber this morning, I was wanting to do some weeding, but didn't fancy getting wet feet and knees in the bog that our garden has turned into over the past couple of weeks.

teapot2

Hope your sis feels better soon, seem to be some nasty colds and non covid viruses going about now that people are emerging once again.  Good that the Quinoa experiment worked and hopefully didn't taste 'horrendous', the little seeds are different, they remind me a bit of teeny shells.....