Oh em ef in gee tis another stunner out there. Have moved early to the shed so that I can, with doors flung wide open, enjoy the morning. Breakfast was a simple slice of wholemeal toast with half an avo, smashed, as they like to describe it in restaurants although really just mashed up with a fork, half a chilli, a few chopped walnuts and a squirt of lime juice. On the side was a single rasher of bacon. None of this supermarket rubbish. Even Waitrose can’t come up with bacon as good as you get from a butcher, in our case Fosters on Monks Road.
THG is checking her empire. I dare say I will do some watering this morning whilst she attends to her devotions. I also need to nip to United Carpets down the road behind Tesco to look for a bit of vinyl for the new workshop floor. Darryl the plasterer finished last night. Quite late as he was still smoothing away with his finishing trowel (I looked it up) when I was tending to the barbecue. The chicken thigh kebabs marinated according to some Japanese recipe THG came across in the Waitrose weekly publication (paper?) proved to be succulent and deelish.
Today’s breakfast conversation included the fact that Monty had recommended I now mow the wildflower meadow, taking care to remove the clippings. Reality is that wildflowers have been few and far between this year. I am going to reseed it. Plenty left in the box. There are patches of bare soil around the shores of my lake that are also an obvious target for the scattering of flower seeds. I shall imitate the effects of nature 🙂
It is going to be a week or more before the workshop becomes fully operational. Kristian the electrician is coming on Tuesday to do the second fix and the floor and skirting are going down on Wednesday. I think it is Wednesday. The dates keep changing. Then we can paint the walls and finally put down the vinyl.
I will be under some pressure to start using the workshop having gone to the effort of getting it done. Every bloke should have a workshop, and a shed.