Grass, Ebay & Sunshine
Got up early this morning, made myself a coffee and sat in the conservatory and watched two squirrels run up and down along our fence. I hadn't seen them for a while and was pleased to see they were ok. Peter got up about an hour later and joined me for a bit.
As we are not using the car at the moment Peter cycled to get the paper (note the singular 'paper' we really are cutting down) and I mowed the grass front and back. The effects of mowing are just like when you have hoovered a particularly dusty carpet I think - it looks lovely afterwards and transforms the garden.
Peter left for football at around 10.30 and I spent an hour taking pictures of the stuff that I'm going to sell on Ebay. Also did a write-up in each piece in Word ready to paste into the description when I post the items on Ebay's site. Tonight Peter is going to shrink the pic's down so they are quicker to load as large images take ion's to load on Ebay.
Whilst Peter was out I did a fair bit of cleaning and gave myself some time off and sunbathed and read my book in the garden. It's been quite windy today so it was difficult to find a spot that was both sheltered and hidden from the neighbours who I don't particularly want to spot me laying on the lawn. Anyway, I discovered that as our washing was out that that hid me away just nicely and also provided a wind barrier - result!
When Peter got back in the evening we ate our tea in the garden and then started on the watering - we have so many plants inside and out of the house, plus vegetables that this takes quite a while. Where possible we draw water from our two water butts but they are now half empty so I do hope we get a downpour soon to top them up (but not at a weekend of course, a Monday would be good so I can feel better at being at work).
Later we sat in the lounge and watched another J.C. episode and Chrisltine's Garden and Chaos at the Chateau which is hilarious - how do the producers of these programmes find these perfect for TV people? I am now approaching the part in my Jonathan Creek DVD's where the wonder Caroline Quintin is going to be replaced in the role by Julia Sawalha which just won't be the same - Caroline is so A1 perfect in the role - no-one could match her in the part, her comic timing and sarcastic wit are spot on (not to mention the incredulous expressions) and the fact that she's not your typical co-star beauty just adds authenticity to the thing.
I turned in typically early at 9.30 as I was shattered - managed to read about two pages of my book and that was it. I left Peter in the lounge carrying on with his photo shrinking and watching the new style Jim 'll Fix It where they track down past fix it kids and make them do their fix it all over again 30 odd years on - bizarre.
As we are not using the car at the moment Peter cycled to get the paper (note the singular 'paper' we really are cutting down) and I mowed the grass front and back. The effects of mowing are just like when you have hoovered a particularly dusty carpet I think - it looks lovely afterwards and transforms the garden.
Peter left for football at around 10.30 and I spent an hour taking pictures of the stuff that I'm going to sell on Ebay. Also did a write-up in each piece in Word ready to paste into the description when I post the items on Ebay's site. Tonight Peter is going to shrink the pic's down so they are quicker to load as large images take ion's to load on Ebay.
Whilst Peter was out I did a fair bit of cleaning and gave myself some time off and sunbathed and read my book in the garden. It's been quite windy today so it was difficult to find a spot that was both sheltered and hidden from the neighbours who I don't particularly want to spot me laying on the lawn. Anyway, I discovered that as our washing was out that that hid me away just nicely and also provided a wind barrier - result!
When Peter got back in the evening we ate our tea in the garden and then started on the watering - we have so many plants inside and out of the house, plus vegetables that this takes quite a while. Where possible we draw water from our two water butts but they are now half empty so I do hope we get a downpour soon to top them up (but not at a weekend of course, a Monday would be good so I can feel better at being at work).
Later we sat in the lounge and watched another J.C. episode and Chrisltine's Garden and Chaos at the Chateau which is hilarious - how do the producers of these programmes find these perfect for TV people? I am now approaching the part in my Jonathan Creek DVD's where the wonder Caroline Quintin is going to be replaced in the role by Julia Sawalha which just won't be the same - Caroline is so A1 perfect in the role - no-one could match her in the part, her comic timing and sarcastic wit are spot on (not to mention the incredulous expressions) and the fact that she's not your typical co-star beauty just adds authenticity to the thing.
I turned in typically early at 9.30 as I was shattered - managed to read about two pages of my book and that was it. I left Peter in the lounge carrying on with his photo shrinking and watching the new style Jim 'll Fix It where they track down past fix it kids and make them do their fix it all over again 30 odd years on - bizarre.
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