Prosperous & Creative Soul & MFW Year 3

savingholmes

Thanks MF - I think the cat will be alright for just one night away. It sometimes disappears at least that long itself.  You're right about not pressurising myself on calories. Just need to find the right balance. I'm still losing weight.

Thanks Jwil - it will be good to get away from these four walls. Also I've not seen my Dad since he broke a bone in January - and it is still not healed so would be good to see him. My parents are early 80s.

SandyShores said:

Just wondering if you had thought about shakes savingholmes...

Another one here loving all the red robin plants around at the moment, so much that I'm seriously thinking of buying another if I can find a space for it.  We are going to train ours into a tree shape too so I've snipped a few lower branches off this year, but its only year 2 so haven't gone too far.  I'm doing the same with our ceanothus....

Thanks Sandy - I can't cope with the texture or smell or that kind of thing. I wish I could although at this moment I'm eating real food again which is a relief.

At my last house I'd trained my red robin to arch over a bench and it was stunning. I love the idea of a standard ceonothus too. A couple fell into my trolley yesterday!!

powerspowers said:

Sorry to read you’ve been unwell SH. Hope you have a lovely Easter with family xx

Thanks Powers - I am on the mend at least now.

Thanks BM - you are right that UPF are not great for us. 

savingholmes

Well yesterday I had a coffee in my new fave garden centre. They do a nice cafetiere decaf coffee and the cafe has a view of hills so lovely. I bought an orchid to take to my Mum's and a Stephanotis and a couple of pretty house plant pots for me. I love the white star like flowers and the scent is heavenly. That plus the coffee came to over £50.

I then had a £10.50 off £70 spend off at BnQ so went to their garden section again where they also had 20% off outdoor plants. I got a mix of plants from the main and clearance section so got some lovely deals.

For £66 I bought:

1.  a semi-dwarf apple tree - James Gleave - it's close to 2m tall in its pot. I'll likely trim its top to encourage it to develop more side shoots
2. 3 Anenome Blanda  with blue star like flowers 
3. 6 strawberry plants. I have a raised bed next to the kitchen window which I'll plant that in alongside existing herbs etc
4. 20 plant pansy mix
5. Ceonothus Yankee Point - about 1m tall (evergreen with blue flowers)
6. 2 half price wicker basket arrangements that I'll give family for Easter
7. A half price small Ceonotus Repens (evergreen with blue flowers)
8. A half price small camelia (evergreen - acid loving - with red flowers)
9. Small forest flame (evergreen with variegated leaves that turns red in Autumn and has white flowers)
10. Indoor Arthurium - a plant with glossy green leaves and bright red leaf style flowers with yellow stamens

My energy is improving although I only got up at midday today - I've mowed the lawn 'twice' - once on a high setting and once on a mid range setting. It looks a lot better although it started raining half way through the second mowing and my hair got wet. I've taken all my new plants around the back. I think from April I'll need to pay for a garden bin as it's now about half full. While I've got a compost bin - because my small shed and the half garage is badly organised - the compost bin has my pressure washer in it!! I need to try and get to a trowel in my garage so I can plant some of my stuff more easily. Ideally I also want to find my loppers so I can cut back some of the hated 'ornamental grasses' and bamboo. Not sure if I have any gardening gloves anywhere but if I did find some - I might do some weeding. Hopefully doing bits of gardening in short bursts will help rebuild my stamina.

I've seen rainbows come and go across my view which is always nice. I'm going to have a jacket potato and some chilli next and then see if the weather is kind enough to let me back in the garden. It's currently raining again.

beanielou

Your garden centre sounds amazing. 

jwil

Great garden centre finds!

Blackcats

Hope you are enjoying Easter.  Will be nice for you to be with your parents for a bit of a change of scene and a bit of being looked after.

doingitanyway

Each time I common here you are doing a little better so the trajectory is up. 
Your trip to the garden centre sounded fun.
Happy Easter

savingholmes

Thanks BC, DIA, Jwil and Beanie

Unfortunately when I went back in to the garden I slid off the raised lawn and down the wooden steps hurting my rump slightly and my left wrist a lot. Went to bed for a couple of hours from shock. Then went downstairs for gammon roast dinner.

If my pain doesn't improve overnight I may not be able to go away or may need to delay. 

jwil

Sorry about the fall.  Hope it's all ok today and you are feeling ok.

KajiKita

Oh no …! 😟 Hope you feeling better today 🤞

KK

skint_spice

Hope the pain has gone down 🙏