Steadily climbing the mountain, enjoying the view along the way

KajiKita

Thanks @beanielou, you too 😊
Thanks @PennysIntoPounds 😊, me too! 

Weighed this morning. Technically back up a lb but I’m regarding that as natural variation … So far, overall, not lost anything since Christmas then …
Still, I am determined to continue, so I am firmly telling myself: 
- I’m not gaining weight
- I’m getting a little fitter - walked my local loop yesterday and my Fitbit told me I was in the exercise zone (or some such) before I actually noticed myself 
- I’m a little stronger
- I’m a little more flexible
- January is a tough month (as is February) and doing anything ‘additional’ is a win at this time of year …

KK

ladybird1106

Happy belated mse anniversary 🥳
love 🐞

KajiKita

ladybird1106 said:

Happy belated mse anniversary 🥳
love 🐞

Thank you 😊

Spent most of the morning in the veggie patch. 

Upended, weeded, divided and removed the dead leaves etc from the strawberry plants that were in pots last year. Planted those in behind the garlic, so those should do okay 😊
Weeded one of the worst veggie beds. 2 down, 4 to go.
Popped the hyacinth bulbs that I had as a treat in December into the cut flower bed for next year 😊 Reburied the small wild tulips that ‘someone’ (nameless but probably feline! 🙄) had been excavating. Also reburied the membrane at the back of the veggie patch where again, ‘someone’, had been excavating. 😂 I will have to remember to make this one of my regular checks. 

Thats enough in the garden for today - I am cold and stiff now, but I have made progress! 💪👏

Visit out to a garden centre this afternoon (seed potatoes and secateurs are needed 😊) and then some chores, hopefully …

KK

Cheery_Daff

Ooh, keep talking about your garden - we've been out this morning but once I've warmed up a little I'm going to get out and do some garden pottering myself this afternoon 😊

KajiKita

Cheery_Daff said:

Ooh, keep talking about your garden - we've been out this morning but once I've warmed up a little I'm going to get out and do some garden pottering myself this afternoon 😊

What today? Or just in general …? 🤔

It’s now raining here now, so I’m glad I got out and did a goodly chunk before it came in, probably for the rest of the weekend. 

Knocked up a batch of mushroom soup (including parsley from the garden  ❤️🤩🌿) Just needs blitzing down, adding a drop of cream and freezing down in portions 😊

KK

Brewerspride

KajiKita said:

ladybird1106 said:

Happy belated mse anniversary 🥳
love 🐞

....Popped the hyacinth bulbs that I had as a treat in December into the cut flower bed for next year 😊 Reburied the small wild tulips that ‘someone’ (nameless but probably feline! 🙄) had been excavating. Also reburied the membrane at the back of the veggie patch where again, ‘someone’, had been excavating. 😂 I will have to remember to make this one of my regular checks. .....

KK

Princess Chloe told me it was the squirrels. 

f0xh0les

Oh well, that would be much more likely ..

...... 👀  uh huh. Squirrels. Oh yeah. 

Or a tiger, yeah, mighta been a tiger who ate the bulbs and then ran away. 

greenbee

Not-Fatty agrees that it's FAR more likely to be the squirrels, which is why Chloe should be eating them (squirrels, not bulbs). 

KajiKita

To be fair, it could be squirrels - I found an acorn buried in the pots with the strawberry plants this morning …
However, it could also be one of the three neighbour cats we seem to have now - huge, fluffy, all black bruiser, timid, polite, white and black with collar and large, white and tabby semi bruiser 😉

Spent £74 in the garden centre! 😳 Mainly new secateurs, but also three lots of seed potatoes, pea, runner and climbing French bean seeds, two dahlias and some sowables for the cut flower border 😊

Soup blitzed but only made 2 and 1/3rd portions! 🙄 Have annotated the recipe and will double all quantities next time! 

KK

PennysIntoPounds

Very impressed with the soup making, this is on my aspirations list. Do you have a soup maker doodah or do you do it in a pan?