April Activities

Today is 'Costa Coffee' day - the one day of the month we treat ourselves to a grande laitte and read the papers for an hour in the comfy sofa's of Costa watching the world go by. Considering it is such a pleasurable way to spend an hour I think the £2.45 spent on the the gallon cup of coffee you get is a bargain. We went into The Works afterwards and had a browse round the bargain books - got a few presents for people whose birthdays are coming up and 'I think' Peter go something for me as there was a mystery bag that he wouldn't show me! On the way home we popped into Halfords and got some spare bulbs for the car lights - we recently got caught out when both bulbs on a headlight went when it was dark and the shops were shut so I've learnt a lesson there and intend to keep a few emergency items in the car.

Then it was home to do a spot of gardening as the weather is dry and sunny - but boy is it windy! Firstly I sorted out some piles of greenhouse glass that the previous owner of the house had left behind - there is loads of it, some of it broken, and it's a devil to dispose of. I have already given a load of panes to our friends Wendy and Mick for their greenhouse and yesterday Mick asked if we had any more has his niece and nephew had put a football through his greenhouse. I am delighted to get rid of some more of it so have stacked up about 8 panes to take over later in the week.

Then I did some strimming (the bloody strimmed drives me mad though, I'm fine 'driving it' so to speak but the cable that is supposed to continuously feed out of it to do the cutting 'doesn't' so I continually have to stop and manually undo the end and pull out some more plastic line - hardly labour saving!)

Finally, washed out the birdbath and refilled it, washed down our large garden chair, did a bit of weeeding and burried some mdf in our wheelie bin in the hope that the bin men will take it away. Peter has been busy too but I will let him blog about that (I took a sneeky pic of him planting some spuds though - see attached).

Not sure what I'm going to do with the rest of the day - probably finish off reading the papers, then delve into my current book and finally watch a bit on the box.

Good things today

Costa

Getting things done in the garden

Buying some presents in advance of people's birthdays

Reading

Bad Things

Too windy

Forgot to play an April Fool's joke