Travelling On

Cheery_Daff

Small things do certainly add up. I thought of you while pottering about emptying dried up old pots from the greenhouse - it felt like a drop in the ocean, but you've achieved so much doing a little bit at a time and it kept me inspired to keep going 😊

Suffolk_lass

Cheery_Daff said:

Small things do certainly add up. I thought of you while pottering about emptying dried up old pots from the greenhouse - it felt like a drop in the ocean, but you've achieved so much doing a little bit at a time and it kept me inspired to keep going 😊

I agree. With pup needing lots of attention we are pretty restricted on how much time we can spend gardening at the moment. Top of the list are to finish weeding the veg beds and emptying the spent compost out of pots and even giving them a swish in a trug of water - the rest of the garden is a mass of stalks but I have been saying that these are for the birds. Now they need cutting down as the new growth is evident underneath 😳 already!!

Karmacat

Thank you both!  It's amazing, isn't it - the difference just half an hour can make, if it's regular.  Of course, there are some things I've totally neglected still: I haven't mentioned about the two above-the-ground ants nests yet 🤐😫😝🤢😨 I guess that's just digging and turning with a spade, see if the blackbirds like it?  Have baby birds hatched yet?  That could be fun.  Foxes might lick them up too.  We'll see.

Sorry, I'm rambling 😊 there are always plans, of course.  And I'm in bed, looking at blue sky, and I've googled how to hang curtains with blackout liners and found a good article by Dunelm just to remind me, so all's well.  

So that's the plan for today - hang the bedroom curtain on the now-clean windows, swoosh the voiles for downstairs, and dig up some summer snowdrops.  In amongst coffee and frugal brownies.  And later on an episode of S4 of Killing Eve.  Small pleasures count!

Karmacat

Curtain and their linings are up, in my bedroom!  Woohoo!  I didn't mark any of them when I took them down, so its all a bit mix and match and it needs a bit of first aid sewing where the tape on the lining is getting frayed, but thats more or less cosmetic, and not on next week's to do list  

Also bought two tension rods from Amazon, delivery the middle of next week and paid for with part of that £125 bonus that Vodafone sent me.  Plus I fished out the voiles to be refreshed before hanging - I'll swoosh them tomorrow or Tuesday.  And there's something I've wanted to do for a long time - to gather together the nets/thin cheesecloth etc and arrange them in a sort of pattern.  It's for my bedroom, so it's not often on show 😛 and it uses up things that are in store for specifically this purpose, I've long thought of it.  

I really doubt I'll get round to the summer snowdrops digging today, though, I think I've had enough.  It's a bit accomplishment, though, I'm really pleased  

Alchemilla

It sounds lovely, KC x

Karmacat

Thanks Alchemilla  

I managed to swoosh the voiles that are going to hang in the living room - trouble is, they're so light, they didn't drop down while they were on the line, so they've got massive creases in.  Old teatowel will come to my rescue to help iron them - I'm glad I didn't get rid of my ironing board, even though I use it so infrequently.

The pieces of thin cheesecloth I want to use for the bedroom are stacked on my kitchen table - I might be able to swoosh *those* today, and there's a bit of normal washing going on, the duvet cover.  I'm still quite tired, even though I slept better in a properly darkened room (and went to bed earlier, ha) but its a lovely sunny day, so I'll definitely be sauntering about outside somewhere.  Especially as there's a lot of dust settling out from the work that's making me sneeze!

badmemory

An ironing board!  What is this of which you speak?  Oh you are right I have one too.  It's been under my jigsaw board since the first lockdown.  Much more use than for actually ironing on.  It is very tall at its highest & I can do the jigsaws standing up rather than straining my back leaning over.  Perfect.  I suppose eventually I may HAVE to iron something.

Karmacat

  Yep, I was going to send it to the recycling, and then I took the curtains down and it was a lot easier to iron them on the board than faff about clearing my desk to do it on - which is the lesson, actually, I iron things so rarely, that if I *do* want to iron something, the rest of the house is likely to be in an uproar    because that's exactly what things are like at the moment   

Only thing I've done today is write out a birthday card for the second-most-recent grandchild in the family, a year old tomorrow.  The most recent one, I'm watching 40 second clips on backthen, of her starting to find her voice and kind of yodelling/doing scales ❤ it's adorable.  Even a little walk is nice right now: magnolias are here!  I love magnolias.

Baileys_Babe

I believe our ironing board is in the loft, if it isn't, we must have got rid of it.

Karmacat

**shudders violently** my loft really isn't fit for storage, especially now that the pest control guys have been twice and left liberal helpings of poison up there  

I've done a bit more, after the birthday card: I was undercharged on Friday for the windows, so another £125 to them by phone (I thought the amounts I paid didn't add up to the quote, so that's fine), soaked beans are in the slow cooker doing their thing, duvet cover washed and nearly dry, "patchwork" net curtain is swooshed and on the line, and I'm just off to do some tidying upstairs.  

No gardening work yet, and I doubt there will be, it's just not as important as carrying on to get the house back.