Sat out on the deck after breakfast, pot of tea a brewing. Another perfect day in prospect. A black cat has strolled nonchalantly into the garden. It’s after birds. We have wrens, robins and blue tits tweeting away merrily. I’ll be cross if it gets one. It has now moved through the beech hedge to next door. Dunno who it belongs to. It wears a collar.
I’m not a cat person. I don’t mind them but not a big enough fan to want one meself. Same goes for dogs. I like the idea of a dog but they are too much hassle to look after.
I have decided to redo the wildflower meadow after this year. There is still too much grass in it and no wildflowers. Well I did have one tiny flower appear early on in the season and there is a clump of bluish coloured ones right at the far end, near the greenhouse. Didn’t do a proper job preparing the ground. I just ran a scarifier over the area and raked in the seed. This time I’ll dig up the turf.
I have half an eye on installing an irrigation system for the borders to be ready for next year. THG not massively enthused with the idea but I’ll develop it and see how it does. Put the design in front of the committee. Run it up the flagpole. That sort of thing. We are also going to put in a few more raised beds. I’ve never been a gardener but there is no harm in getting involved in a few projects. Especially now that we will have a workshop.
Back in the pool this morning. Work off the weekend excesses. Not that it was a particularly excessive weekend. Next weekend we will have Hannah and George with us and a trip has been arranged to the curry house in Burton Waters. It gets good writeups but we’ve never been so I’m looking forward to it. Also having afternoon tea at the Teahouse in the Woods in Woodhall Spa. On the Sunday.
Ciao 4 now.
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bought a new water butt innit. replaces one of the ones serving the greenhouse that had gone out of shape in the heat. no way we can get it back on its stand so we’ve left it to be emptied gradually by the irrigation system which has now been turned off. Far too hot to do it this pm so will sort in the morning. we have a bonus extra stand which we can use to prop up the water butt now by the potting shed.