Put away your purse & become debt-averse

crazy_cat_lady

You make gardening sound like such a fun and relaxing time... I have repeatedly tried and I just hate it. But we can't all enjoy everything can we? I wish I had even a tenth of your motivation to do it. 
It's chucking it down with rain today and I have no motivation for anything, although my mam's jumper is slowly progressing...

foxgloves

Well certain tasks are relaxing, CCL. Others are physically demanding & tedious. But I do like to sit out & relax in a colourful garden alive with bees buzzing, butterflies & birdsong. I also like to eat our lovely organically grown produce, so I have to put in the effort to achieve the desired results. Some days I am more in the mood for the more repetitive tasks than others, just like anything else. Generally though, I find gardening is good exercise & it also does my head good.
F x

foxgloves

Hello Diary Friends,
Well, you know when the highlight of your day is the delivery of a new spray mop that you now officially have Lockdownitis. I had no particular plans for today, but did hope to feel a bit more engaged with life than I have done so far. I embarked on a bike ride this morning - I intended to do a little circular route down past the church to the riverside, then back a different way. I got precisely as far as outside next-door-but-one when the rain came. I initially thought I'd press on, it's only water, etc, etc, but by the time I'd got a bit further, I was getting pretty soggy & went off the idea, so it ended up being just a quick ride round the block, thus officially not worth getting my bike out. Grrrrr! Two coffees, then skyped my sister. Actually, that was nice, better than the arrival of the spray mop to be fair!
I've got on with a research project this afternoon, involving heaps of old family photos & I have quite enjoyed that. I've also finished another blanket square 56 / 144 & am about to go & put a final effort into a new piano piece I've been learning. So, it's not that the day has been wasted, just that I have truly got that Father Ted feeling - you know the episode where he dreams that he's living it up somewhere exotic then wakes up & shouts 'I'm still on that fe*king island!' Well, I think that is how we are all feeling now, isn't it? We wake up & it's a few seconds before the realisation that we are still living through a pandemic kicks in. On the plus side, I was pleased to see that the little chilli babies I potted up yesterday have survived their first night out of the propagator. I am less pleased with our resident sparrow army. Naughty beaks have stripped ALL my lovely new primulas & my cowslip of their flowers. They don't eat them, that would be too rational. They simply peck them off & spit the bits onto the soil, which I find infuriating. No meal worms today as they have been so naughty, but sadly that means that our lovely robin has gone without his too, & they are his favourite. 
Well I had better sign off & go & do today's last few jobs. We will get through this tedious time. I did fully expect a 2nd wave in autumn, but I am not sure I thought we'd still be in lockdown for more than a year later. Thank goodness for the vaccine, & let's hope some of these vaccine conspiracy theorists decide to read some science instead of dodgy websites & that as many people take up the jab as possible. Honestly, the fact that anyone can think it's to get a tracking device into their arm just beats me......we all carry a tracking device with us at all times - it's called a mobile phone. Right.....last few jobs, then intend to light the stove & my scented candle and read my book (which is about the 1918/9 pandemic!) until hunter-gatherer Mr F arrives home with the grocery shopping.
Take care all of you.
F x

Baileys_Babe

My problem with gardening is I don't know what I am doing and I am scared of doing it wrong.

carrielovesfanta

Baileys_Babe said:

My problem with gardening is I don't know what I am doing and I am scared of doing it wrong.

I have a very gung-ho approach to gardening which makes up for not knowing what I'm doing. It mostly consists of buying plants from the "cavalcade of the unloved" in the garden centre for a couple of quid, then bunging them into a free spot. If they live, I win if they don't, no real harm done. 
I like to buy perennials so I don't have to keep resowing things too as the slugs in my garden take anything sown from seed

foxgloves

Morning Daffodils, 
I didn't post yesterday. I think when one's only big daily news is catching  a naughty heron red-handed raiding one's pond & testing out one's new spray mop on a variety of hard floor surfaces, that is kind of peak lockdown tedium being reached, isn't it?
I have got off to a positive start this morning though. It's my Weigh-day & I have lost another kilo this week, so that's 4.3kg off in total. It would have been our monthly Cheat Day today, but as we have both Easter & a birthday next month, we are downscaling March to a mini cheat day only, so an individual cake of my choice today from lovely little indie bakery rather than an 'Eat what we want' day. I am scheduling my next Weigh Day for 31st March as that ought to be long enough to see another loss on the scales & I should be moving a bit more too, as gardening season continues to kick in. No town for me this morning, as am waiting in for a parcel, but I have some jobs to do, so am ok with that. Hardly any shops open anyway. We have another big gardening session planned for tomorrow morning so I'm looking forward to that.
Wishing everyone a good weekend, .... within our rather limited parameters, anyway.
F x 

carrielovesfanta

To be fair, I'd quite ike to hear about the heron!
Plus mop stories are an ongoing joke between me and one of my best friends!

welshspendthrift

@foxgloves your mop tale reminds me of James Martin telling his ‘story’ at good food show demo of the shoppers with their mops bought at the show having had a “few shandies/ wine” and the wobbly walk at the end of the day! 

Onebrokelady

I bought a spray mop a couple of months ago, I was so excited when it arrived 😀 and couldn't wait to use it,it's brilliant 😀

Sun_Addict

Another one here who loves her spray mop 😆 We lost so many fish to herons we got a decoy heron for the pond. It’s worked and we haven’t had any trouble with herons for a few years now.