Can’t keep up………

………….with anything

There’s too many eggs and too much veg!  We’ve sold some of the eggs and frozen some veg but there’s so much of them.  Course, if a certain someone didn’t keep buying rubbish processed food, I’d have more freezer space

We’ve started painting the hall, stairs and landing.  I say we, what I mean is I’ve done a bit and he’s done a lot, lol.  The watered-down first coat is on, we he can get on with the ‘proper’ coats now.  He’s also been painting the woodwork, that was a pain because the stain kept seeping through the new white paint, even with primer on.

We were both off work last week.  We visited Fairford (to watch the planes fly out), Axminster, West Bay and Weston-Super-Mare.

I’ve still been looking after me, though it was a bit rushed because we were out so much.  I treated myself to some new make-up, and bought a 200ml tub of Morrison’s shea butter (£2.99) – it’s wonderful for feet.

When the work is finished on the house, I can get back to crafting.  I’ve hidden it all away for now, dust and paint splashes are NOT going to ruin my work.

 

 

A big mess

Well, it WAS.   I’ve been cleaning up.

We’ve had a plasterer in for a couple of days, the whole house suffered the dust.  But the walls look great now, just waiting for them to dry out then we can paint.

My skin has suffered too, the dust has sucked all the moisture out of it.  I’m back on the Frugal Frump challenge today.  It was  a bit difficult to do when the plasterer wants to get into the bathroom to work, lol.  I’m fully dust-free, clean and moisturised.  Healthy food makes a huge difference to your skin, so I’ll be eating out of the garden a lot.  Here’s what we picked yesterday -

Beetroot, carrots, broad beans, peas and italian beans (can’t remember the proper name for them!).  There’s eight courgettes too but I forgot to add them to the pic.

 

Quick catch up

I’d love to post every day but some days are so boring that it’s not worth it.  Then on my productive days, I don’t have time.

It’s about time I took photos of the garden, kitchen, animals and crafts.  So I turned the camera on, it was fine for a couple of minutes then the ‘low battery’ thingy started flashing.  That’s OK, I have loads of batteries charged and at the ready.  So I swapped them – nothing.  Maybe rechargables lose their power once charged then left?  So I tried 3 lots of ordinary batteries and still nothing.  My camera is dead   We have another camera but I hate it, all my photos come out blurry on it.  OH takes good pics with it though, I’ll have to get him to do all the work.

The girls are laying well, I collected 10 eggs yesterday, even with 2 broody hens.  If they don’t come out of it soon, I’ll have to break them myself.  Not looking forward to that, they seem so sad when I lock them out of their shed.

I keep hearing people saying their tomato plants are huge, or flowering, or both.  My tallest one is about 8 inches, and not a flower in sight.  Not sure what’s going on there.

The veg is growing well, especially the spinach.  I sowed the seeds in nice straight lines, the birds must have been playing because they’ve grown in messy clumps, lol.  Still very tasty!

I was hoping to spend this week putting notepads together and designing more calendars.  Turns out I’ll be working all week instead.  Just as well I love my job!  And think of all the lovely crafty things I can buy with the extra money, lol.

New egg-layers, new job

The new girls are both laying eggs, though Rocky has taken to escaping and laying in the front garden.  She always comes back once she’s done her duty.  We’ve had to put extra netting up to keep her in, hopefully once she’s found a new spot and is happy with it, the netting can come down – it’s really ugly, lol.

I started a new job at STROUD CARPETS, the bosses (husband and wife) are fab.  OH works there too – he started 3 weeks ago.  We have completey different jobs so shouldn’t annoy each other too much!

The veg is growing well, the fruit bushes have plenty of flowers and we’ve just picked more rhubarb.  We’ve promised the neighbours a rhubarb crumble, will probably make that tomorrow.

Here’s the view from work -

     

Finally……..

The seeds are all sown!  We’ve done everything about a month later than previous years, so we’re hoping it’ll be OK.  We have -

• Tomatoes
• Salad leaves
• Radishes
• Yellow beans
• Berlotti beans
• Beetroot
• Carrots
• Spinach
• Potatoes
• Swede
• Parsnips
• Sprouts
• Cucumbers
• Chilli peppers

We also have fruit – strawberries, raspberries, loganberries, blackberries and blueberries.