Easter 2025 I’m coming to get you!

My pond plants have arrived so tomorrow we will try and get them in. Done some research and you can use garden soil instead of aquatic compost if it hasn’t got fertiliser in it. I plan to use the soil I dug out of the pond hole which was under gravel and before that under some concrete so there won’t be much in it. Monty Don recommends lining the mesh baskets with hessian so I’ve improvised with an old dust sheet. It was rubbish as a dust sheet as paint splodges went right through onto the floor so it should be ok for lining baskets. I only need some gravel/grit to prevent it floating away which I can get from pets at home in the fish department.

Quiet weekend planned. Might have a popcorn and dvd session with my son tomorrow and then Sunday is scarecrow trail and ice cream, no plans for Monday yet but the grass needs cutting and the weeds need defeating.

:wave: morning MFW. Well I finally got the pond plants in last night, virtually in the dark! How was it 9:30pm by the time I’d finished? I may well do some moving about today as the last couple did just get plonked in while trying not to get my feet wet. It’s annoying me at the moment as a) the water lily has to be lowered in stages as it grows so it’s not in its final position b) I can see the planting baskets and c) I want the plants to grow NOW! Patience child patience.

Will be spending today as going on local scarecrow trail for charity which also means ice cream from the van. Also need more milk as the 6 pints I got on Wednesday won’t last. I told my boy I would get a pack of knock off weetabix (other breakfast cereals are available!) and if he was hungry he could get himself one; needless to say a lot has been eaten already :rotfl:

Thought it was going to be a very expensive day yesterday but crisis seems to have been averted. My coffee machine wasn’t working properly! I mean it’s only 10 years old and gets used everyday, they don’t make them like they use to as my dear dad would have said (whilst getting out a screwdriver and setting about mending it). Whilst I was descaling it and cleaning it all out again (although I must point out it has now been cleaned out twice since Christmas) I was investigating new ones. Although I was drawn to the charms and relatively reasonable price of one that matches my toaster I was disappointed by the lack of cash back! Anyway it seems to be better this morning, the coffee is acceptable and as I consider “lack of coffee” as an emergency the emergency fund would cover it . I might have to put it on my Santa list, ie. save for a new one for Christmas and hopefully there will be better TCB deals to be have for the mortgage fund.