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redofromstart

I got in touch with a lovely local horse owner via our village facebook free pages, she brings me a trailer load and I make a contribution to her fuel. It's usually quite fresh so it needs to be left to rot but it's the closest I've got to free in any volume

KajiKita

Done quite a lot of gardening over the last few days - my first earlies are in now, as are my sweetpeas, the greenhouse is full of baby plants and tubers doing their do (must water in there this morning 🤔), found a new spot for a Rosemary away from the thug Sage, used my new mower (it was fab! 🤩) and done some weeding. 

Slowly, slowly it is becoming *my* garden. It’s had a slow start partly due to it having been so neglected for so long - always harder work to reclaim a garden than build one from scratch I think, but also because of me being so out of sorts over the three years I have been here (covid x 2 and redundancies etc.). I am now finding I have a creative flow in it that I haven’t had before, which is lovely 😊 This is my eighth garden in my life and I would like it to be my last - absolutely fed up with moving on from gardens all the time! 

It’s wet here today, so I don’t think there will be any gardening-gardening (though I might take advantage of the damp ground to hoick out some lumps of oregano from the Border of Doom if we get a break in the rain). I think tidying and sorting the potting shed would be a good thing to do, I have some alpine strawberry seedlings to plant up and i can do some seed sowing 😊

I have finished my novel - it improved c. half way through! And I want to finish ‘reading’ HFW’s Leftovers book - not entirely relevant to me (lots of talk of meat and dairy) but some interesting ideas none the less. 

KK

KajiKita

redofromstart said:

I got in touch with a lovely local horse owner via our village facebook free pages, she brings me a trailer load and I make a contribution to her fuel. It's usually quite fresh so it needs to be left to rot but it's the closest I've got to free in any volume

My next door neighbour has horses and has offered me some of her (horse’s!) poop, but I worry about aminopyralid residues and similar.

KK

Suffolk_lass

I had a read of the RHS page about aminipyralids in manure and it is quite helpful in terms of what to do. It also says that if you can store it for two years (which is normal wisdom for horse manure) it breaks down. Here's a link, in case it is useful

KajiKita

Suffolk_lass said:

I had a read of the RHS page about aminipyralids in manure and it is quite helpful in terms of what to do. It also says that if you can store it for two years (which is normal wisdom for horse manure) it breaks down. Here's a link, in case it is useful

Ah, that’s interesting. I’m guessing more research has been done (there has been the opportunities to observe more) on how it degrades, how long that process takes etc.

I will ask my neighbour if she has any two year manure she doesn’t want. 

KK 

KajiKita

Bit bored here - flipping rain ….

Have done all my financial updates - with being on leave the gardening YNAB pot has taken a battering! Down to -£89.66 - that will have to be topped up after my next pay day. 

This five week month for the food shops will be a bust: £108.21 left to cover two weeks. No chance 🤷‍♀️ We will do what we can to minimise the overspend. 

One small TT of £0.94 to savings - I *so* know how to party! Not …. 😉

Ooh, the sun is shining. Will hare out and get muddy for a bit! 😊

KK

KajiKita

Gave up on the garden on the end - just too showery. 

I have, however, finally read all of Foxholes thread! What an epic 😊
Off the back of this I have discovered that there is a Her0n store in Cwmbran, where I go every two months for a haircut (yes, this is ridiculous, driving an hour for a haircut, but I have had a longer relationship with my hairdresser than Mr KK! 😉😊) and FH seems to suggest that it is a good place to look for food and especially vegan bargains. My next hair cut, in two weeks, is at 9.30am, so that gives me a good hour to go and have a recce as wading bird shop opens at 8am and I’d rather go in when it’s quieter. Quite chuffed about this - hope it helps. 🤞

KK

Cheery_Daff

I'm impressed you even attempted gardening today if your weather is anything like ours! I've stayed well and truly inside as much as possible!

KajiKita

Cheery_Daff said:

I'm impressed you even attempted gardening today if your weather is anything like ours! I've stayed well and truly inside as much as possible!

I looked at it, put my feet on, went down to the greenhouse to water it, refilled the two cans from the butts and then it started again so I gave up! 🤷‍♀️ So not much really! 😂

KK

KajiKita

I now have a date for my uncle’s funeral, in early May. Need to book coach tickets. Hoping I might be able to get CB on those. 

Looking at what to wear I needed a new (to me) black top. 

I never seem to have any luck in CSs but did find some possibles on V1nted last night (first time I have used it)  - £14 spent on two tops including shipping. 

At some point I will investigate trying to sell some of my unworn, never will be worn stuff on there. What doesn’t sell I will then drop off at the hospice shop.

KK