Summertime

PennysIntoPounds

Sorry to hear about your chicken @rachmach3, hope you're okay and the dealing with the necessaries is not horrible 

Excellent June progress and aims already all 👏

Extra shout out to @greenbee as I did not expect to see 'built the first obelisk' on our achievements and I am fully picturing a huge masonry monument to guide the dead to the afterlife. It's the sort of thing greenbee could knock up in an afternoon 

I have caught up on some good steps today on a gentle stroll with Mr PIP, and my June aims are to get as much money in the build fund as possible while also not letting other pots or our ability to do nice things like go for a beer or buy a meal we want go to wrack and ruin. I see a lot of tedious listings for online sales and doing very annoying surveys coming up!

greenbee

Thanks @redofromstart - that gives me an excuse to leave them for a bit longer And just think how lovely it'll be when your ensuite is done.

@PennysIntoPounds - the obelisk was a very easy (but good quality and expensive!) flat pack. The hard bit will be digging 30cm foundations for it. Once I've got one worked out I have the other three to do. 

beanielou

greenbee said:

I have managed to use up around half a builders' bag of soil, which means there is only half a bag left to get rid of somehow:

• I've finished the last two veg beds
• Started planting up one of them (need to check what should be going in that and the other one) 
• Filled the pots next to the archways at the veg plot entrances with soil/compost
• Planted the pots up with sweet peas/morning glory/sad-looking loofahs/leftover cucumbers which I hope will climb up the arches (most likely they'll climb over the fence).
• Found the fruit cages, built them, and shoehorned them over the blackcurrant and gooseberry. I haven't yet netted them.
• Tidied pots/modules/seed trays/gravel trays away into the shed as they've been emptied
• Sorted some stuff out from the greenhouse and put it in the shed
• Built the first obelisk (took less time than unpacking it
• Moved the rest of the obelisk packages from the garage to grass next to the patio so I can build them when I have time
• Moved the gabion cages to the back of the shed (where the rocks are). I need to put one together to see what it looks like and then decide where to use them.
• Put tools away in the shed
• Done some weeding
• Moved the rest of the compost to the back of the greenhouse.
• Done some laundry
• Boxed up electronics and booked collection for sale

Back to work tomorrow. Somehow I need to get my head round that AND before next weekend:

• Set up soaker hose for hedge
• Water trees
• Ericaceous feed for relevant plants
• Mulch the borders
• Move any unused mulch to compost area
• Cut edges/paths in veg plot with edging shears
• Mow (at two different heights for different areas)
• Find plants (in pots) to fill last few buckets/galvanised bath by cat flap

For the rest of June I also need to:

• Get the obelisks made and installled
• Put up the pictures in the bedrooms, bathrooms, and on the landing
• Sort out house insurance
• Chase P11D and do tax return
• Sort out S&S ISA and pensions
• Book dog in for the snip...

I need a wee lie down in a darkened room & that’s just reading your list.  

greenbee

So do I @beanielou

Baileys_Babe

I made a gluten free chocolate courgette cake, for some reason I have been putting this off for weeks, it is delicious 😋

Had a catch up with 2 sets of neighbours, at different points in my day.

Have filled the garden waste bin with weeds.

As it's the first of the month I've paid into all the savings accounts that credit the account and pay interest on non banking days.

Suffolk_lass

How did I not know about this thread? Thanks to @PenniesIntoPounds for posting the link on @foxgloves' thread. I might read along this month as "stuff" going on here - but first question; what are OATS?

Cheery_Daff

Suffolk_lass said:

How did I not know about this thread? Thanks to @PenniesIntoPounds for posting the link on @foxgloves' thread. I might read along this month as "stuff" going on here - but first question; what are OATS?

Outstanding Annoying Tasks! 😃 what the first iteration of this thread was set up for - but I realise nobody has spelled it out this month yet so I can see it would be confusing 😂😂

Welcome, get stuck in! 

@rachmach3 I hope you get less soppy over poorly chickens than we did. Hugs. 

Mr C dismantled a big cupboard in the living room the other day, so I have been forced to deal with some paperwork that was lurking. Some deposited in the recycling bin, some (manuals for electrical things mostly) heading for the loft, couple of folders cleared out, two folders of important paperwork to keep have found a new home. 

Still a bit to do, but I've sorted the stuff that was cluttering up my study 😂

greenbee

I've organised and sent a new baby present to my god daughter.

Back to work today, so will have to deal with my inbox shortly. 

Rhyddid2026

Thanks @Cheery_Daff I have a bit of guilt that I didn't notice she was poorly sooner, but they are rescues and don't let me handle them so by the time I noticed it was too late. I only have 1 now and she was ill a couple of months ago, vet thinks she has a tumour on her reproductive bits, so I have to decide if she is happy hanging out with the ducks for a bit until it's her time, or whether to get her a buddy soon. 
Not very a very OATy conversation! But! doing the necessaries did mean sorting out the compost bin area of the garden so the very OATy task of sorting the compost bins, using what I can, and turning the rest has been started!

PennysIntoPounds

Welcome @Suffolk_lass 😊
Thanks @Cheery_Daff for explaining OATs, apologies for not providing that info!