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

redofromstart

Sounds like they should be - we have some inch thick terracotta ones that have been outside for years and are fine but also have frost resistant pots that cracked over winter so logic to it whatsoever. 

Mr redo has the odd fit of concern and paints things with whatever stuff we have. 

Cheery_Daff

Sounds like a good plan Redo 😊

Another lovely day here 😊 I'm working at home, and it never really gets properly warm in my study, so I'll be having frequent tea breaks on the patio 😊

Counted up last night and I have 14 hours of meetings this week 🙄 Technically I only work 30 hours a week, and I vowed to try and keep meetings under 10 hours a week where possible... but with the end of a couple of projects I had a few weeks where I was just scheduling stuff for towards the end of June as I couldn't keep up, so now I'm dealing with the aftermath.

So this is going to be another catch up week at work, doing stuff that's been delayed to make way for the big deadlines. I've got a presentation this afternoon, and an important bit of work that needs doing today but shouldn't take long, and then it's all booking trains, filling in forms, claiming expenses, replying to neglected emails, deciding what to do about things I've ignored for too long etc.

After work, Mr Cheery is out for the evening, so my usual overambitious list 😂

6-7 HEALTH & WELFARE
* workout
* tea (and an extra portion for the freezer)

7-8.30 POTTERING
* pot up the final plants in the patio tubs
* fit the water butt
* put clothes away upstairs
* ring mum

8.30-9 COMPUTER TIME
* reply to an email
* banks/YNAB

9-10 TOOT!
* flute practice

10-11 GROOMING
* IPL in front of the tv

That'll probably do I think. Quite enough for one evening!

EssexHebridean

Well if you get 50% of that lot done you will have ACHIEVED! (Also loving "Grooming"!) 

Your little tiled patio just looks like SUCH a nice place to sit and chill! 

rtandon27

Patio envy here! - and I've already got a bistro set on a patio but still envious! LOL

Cheery_Daff

Thank you all for your kind and encouraging words 😊

So, my list... 🙄😂


6-7 HEALTH & WELFARE
✅ workout
✅ tea (and an extra portion for the freezer)

7-8.30 POTTERING
✅ pot up the final plants in the patio tubs
* fit the water butt
* put clothes away upstairs
✅ ring mum

8.30-9 COMPUTER TIME
* reply to an email
* banks/YNAB

9-10 TOOT!
✅ flute practice

10-11 GROOMING
* IPL in front of the tv

About 50%  as expected 😂😂 I did do more outside than planned - a bit more scything of an extra parking space for tomorrow's visitors, and of course all the cows came over to have a good nosey 🙄😂

Ended up doing a couple of flute practice so that took up the time I should have spent tidying 😂 Tired now, going to make a start on IPL but I'll probably just get half of one leg done 😂

Exciting visitors tomorrow - we are in one of the squares for the England Ecosystem Survey so we have 5 ecologists (or similar) coming tomorrow to survey plants, wildlife, soil etc. Very exciting. Hoping they might let me follow them round for at least part of the morning 😂

Anyway, not going to post a picture of the patio ever single day but it does look even more jolly in the sunshine 😂

KajiKita

And flowers coming on the rose 😊

I remember once having someone from the local wildlife trust coming to view the wild orchids at the back of the factory where I worked as they didn’t believe me when I said they were growing there. The rest of the management team were cross with me as they didn’t want the wildlife trust to know about them as the management team were concerned that they would stop the site developing that patch of ground. TBH, I did it deliberately to stop the site developing any further in that direction ( I was the environmental manager at the time) and the orchids were at the bottom of a near vertical bank anyway … 😉

KK

Cheery_Daff

Ha,  well done! 😁

Yes,  the roses are lovely! The one up the wall is a white dog rose,  and the one is the pot is pink with really tight frilly flowers and SO many buds! I bought it from the village shop a few years back and it smells glorious 😊😊 it's right in the corner so I can see it from inside the house too 😊

themadvix

Patio does look even lovelier in the sun 😊 And the rose is gorgeous too. 

The survey sounds very interesting - I’m sure they won’t mind you following them around - usually people are more than happy to share their knowledge, enthusiasm with others! Will be interested to hear the results.

Cheery_Daff

Well, they're here and there are about 9 of them! They think my suspected owl egg is probably an actual egg (given the presence of owl pellets nearby) so I'm pleased about that 😊 

Not getting much done this morning though. First a neighbour walked past so I stopped for a chat, then they turned up, then the washing machine pinged so I pegged that out, then another farmer neighbour turned up to check the cows so I stopped to talk to him, and some walkers who went past. I won't get anything done the rate I'm going! 😮

Anyway, this is what they're doing

https://naturalengland.blog.gov.uk/2024/04/03/england-ecosystem-survey-introducing-englands-largest-ever-field-survey/

EssexHebridean

That rose is just stunning Cheery - I should think once al those flowers come out I'll be able to smell it from here, too! 

Fascinating to be part of that survey too - and hurrah to the egg being an owl's! Owl pellets are also fascinating things - well, unless you're squeamish about teeny tiny little bones that is!