Cheery's path to fulfilment - finishing the DIY, looking after myself, appreciating the garden 🌻

greenbee

I love home grown tomatoes but currently have approximately 20 billion seedlings...

badmemory

It is days like this that I wish I had even one joint of one finger that didn't kill anything that might grow.  Although to be fair to myself many (& we are talking over 40) years ago I used to be able to grow button mushrooms.  Anyone seen a button mushroom over 6 inches in diameter & tasted exactly like a button mushroom should.  The bought ones don't quite cut it.

Viking_mfw

Cheery_Daff said:

EssexHebridean said:

*Makes mental note to secretly send Cheery a couple of tomato seedlings in the post and then deny all knowledge*

Don't you even dare think about it!! 😱😱😂😂

I'd day I'd throw them straight on the compost but I know full well I'd end up keeping them and cursing them for the whole summer 😂

We all know if you threw them on the compost they would thrive and produce bumper crops out of spite. 

Cheery_Daff

Viking_mfw said:

Cheery_Daff said:

EssexHebridean said:

*Makes mental note to secretly send Cheery a couple of tomato seedlings in the post and then deny all knowledge*

Don't you even dare think about it!! 😱😱😂😂

I'd day I'd throw them straight on the compost but I know full well I'd end up keeping them and cursing them for the whole summer 😂

We all know if you threw them on the compost they would thrive and produce bumper crops out of spite. 

😂😂 Yes, I imagine so! 

I've never grown mushrooms! I tried once, not button ones, but they never sprouted. And greenbee, that was always my issue - too many seedlings, didn't want to get rid but then got overwhelmed! 

Replacement parcel has arrived today safe and sound and left in the usual place. I'm at home tomorrow so if I see the normal postie I might ask where the Sunday one might have hidden the original parcel...

Nowt else to report. We've just been for a walk and are now rather chilly so heating on and I'm going to get into my dressing gown 😁

Cheery_Daff

Ooh, two payments IN to report! 

£9.98 from We Buy Books, as planned
And an unexpected £11.55 refund from the old LPG supplier - presumably for the portion of the annual standing charge we've not used, as we pay each bill as it arrives so there's no other credit. This is good - shows the switch has definitely been processed. Still no sign of a delivery from the new folk, but it can take a month, so...

EssexHebridean

Hurrah to payments in! AND to the LPG switch having gone through as well - definitely a good sign! 

I'm firmly on the other side of the debate when it comes to tomatoes - love them, and particularly freshly picked! I've got three varieties on the go this year - 2 cherry sized and one standard, so fingers crossed!

Cheery_Daff

Fingers crossed indeed! I've quite enjoyed growing yellow ones in the past, very pretty 😊

Had a notification for an additional 10% on Ziffit trades this weekend - handy since I haven't got round to properly scanning and boxing ours up yet 😂 I'll try to do that tonight, and get it in the post somewhere tomorrow.

Busy week coming up! 

Friday - helping a friend with some plastering, then out for tea with her and her husband and Mr Cheery 😊 They've been pals for many, many years, and we are a cheerful little gang 😊
Sat - Mr Cheery has a gig in the evening in Manchester(ish) which I'll probably go to
Sun - he's off to see his dad - I might have a day at home on my own

Mon - working at home
Tues - working at work, and to a friend's daughter's musical event in the evening
Wed - off to a conference, staying overnight 
Thurs - conference, then Mr C is joining me and we're staying with a friend
Fri-Sun - going somewhere nice as it's my birthday weekend 😊 Not booked anything yet, need to get on with it!

Another job for tonight, along with finding my plastering kit and working out what needs to be washed/packed so I don't have to take all my holiday clothes to the conference and Mr Cheery can just bring them down in the car 😂

EssexHebridean

Ha - there's a coincidence - I'm off to a conference next week too! 

I want to have another go at growing the stripey toms at some stage - Tigerella we grew before - very striking looking and good flavour too. 

Cheery_Daff

Ha - I have a friend who's going to a conference on the same days as me in the same city 😂😂 we thought for a while we were in the same building, but sadly not, just up the road 😂

Cheery_Daff

Morning MSE chums, I hope your weather is as gloriously sunshiney as ours currently is! 🌞  it's not predicted to last, although it should stay dry, so I'm planning to get dressed and out in the garden as quickly as I can. 

Nice day yesterday. I went to help a friend with a small plastering job, but it turned out to be VERY small, so we spent the rest of the day pottering about town and sitting about drinking tea at her house 😂 Topped up with interesting items i can't get round here at the international supermarket. Both our husbands arrived later and we all went out for tea, to an Eritrean restaurant I've not been to before. Tasty, and interesting to have something else, but a little too much fermented stuff for me, I think. 

It was reasonably priced though, £62 for the four of us, including drinks. 

One odd thing - the door to the kitchen had a window above it - but the whole thing, door and window, was only the height of a normal sized door, so the staff were having to duck quite substantially to come in and out of the kitchen! How absolutely bizarre. It looked like it was fixed, not just a closed top part of a door, but why couldn't it be removed?! Surely it's not a supporting beam that low down?? It's not a generally quirky building, it's a long row of attached buildings on a main road, and I've never seen the like in any of the others. How odd! 

Anyway, I forgot to take my purse with me, and my friend introduced me to the delights on g0ogl3 pay. Couldn't do it with our normal bank as I didn't have the card, but FD let me link it through the banking app, so I didn't need the card. I'm going to remove it again now as I can't see myself using it generally, but it was very useful yesterday! 

Anyway, popping in to report £16.70 cashback cleared and claimed this morning, from our ferry booking to go to Ireland at the end of May 😊

Back later with a list, lots of pottering things to get done this weekend, although it's Mr Cheery's only non-committed day so he may want a little excursion of some kind. 

I've just seen that the octopods are now doing a weekly free drink at Nero as well as greggs. We might get more use of that - Nero in our town is open much later than other places and we do occasionally pop in, and there's always a massive queue out of the door in greggs.  Not sure if it's only takeaway, the email didn't say and I've not read the T&Cs. I suppose there's a possibility we could have one of each (the two places are very close here) and head to the park to drink our free drinks! If we can be bothered with the queue, that is, which remains to be seen...

Anyway. It's photos and measurements day for me on the Joe Wicks app 😂 so I'd best do that first, then dressed and outside for breakfast in the garden 😊