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 :)another beautiful day, Red Arrows practising over lottie, love hearts for valentines day, very scary, thought they were going to crash :o

Put in two David Austin roses in memory of two friends who have sadly passed away in the last few weeks

watered my carrots,lettuce,leeks, onions,sweet peas, in the greenhouse,

weeded my broad beans,

harvested,curly kale,romanesco and leeks/ shades x

Well after going through my garden ruthlessly yesterday I made a trip to the local tip with the stuff I couldn't recycle.  Then went up the lottie, marked out my beds, dug over two of them (again), dug holes for the edging of the paths, put down the weed supressant and jumped up and down on the planks that are my edgings to get them to go into the holes i'd dug, fell off and landed on my coccyx (apologies for spelling), laughed like a mad thing (think that was hysteria), drank coffee and went home! And have spent the last several hours mooching on here!   ;D

Planted a cherry and a self fertilsing Cox in my garden today........and I'm in BIG trouble when the Bearded Wonder looks out of the kitchen window in the morning and sees that I've dug two big holes and planted them in the middle(ish) of his lovely lawn......... ;D ;D ;D ;D

.......well its been really nice knowing you Emaggie.....what did the Bearded Wonder say then..?  :o :o ;D
Twinkletoes

He hasn't noticed yet......so I live to see another day ;D ;D

emaggie that is very funny about the trees in middle of oh lawn lol, did make me giggle, let us all know his reaction when he notices them. :)

Nothing yet and we are at NEC until Tuesday evening, so I could actually stay alive until Wednesday ;)

I did this
and the lads did this

Such a nice sunny day, spent a happy 3 hours down the plot the longest I have managed since coming out of hospital! Spread some muck around my fruit bushes, put some more mushroom compost on one of the raised beds, went through my compost bins and turned the compost into the empty one......very productive day! I had a very friendly blackbird follow me around as well hoping for worms.... ;D

Spent the whole day at the lottie - fantastic.

Dug the rest of the long bed

Took some photos - they are on my gallery

Grrr... this is making me soooo jealous. I'm suffering from lottie deprivation. I've been stuck in the house all week while various workmen did various jobs and now that they've gone I'm painting.. :( :( :(

I put my cloches up, tidied the shed, planted my horseradish and sowed a lot of seeds in propogators to go indoors 8)

I put in two lines of onions today and some more peas.  ;D ;D ;D

Today I made raised beds ready for planting Onions and Shallots

I put in my Shallots in ,spread some poo,dug in a bed of(not as easy as it looked i can tell you) Hungarion grazing rye, and planted a Merryweather Damson. :)

Um......nothing up lottie today, still waiting for my blisters to heal from Fri! But I did clean my garden shed out - so not really been lazy!  ;D

Carried on with some digging then went down to the bottom lottie to weed the raised beds, but they were still frozen - and that was at 11.30 am in sunny Essex!

...nothing, been to get paint for repainting the house. So far have undercoated 2 rooms and just taking a break to have a cup of tea then get dinner on were having Carbonnade of Beef with Wholegrain Mustard Croutons (http://www.ocado.com/content/html/recipes3/carbonnadeOfBeef.html) replacing the 2 onions with 10 shallots :)
and get a nice desert (bread and butter pudding) to help our aching bones melt into the sofa. These will all be in the oven while were painting the hall, stairs and landing with undercoat.

Tomorrow when the hubbie is at work (resting :)) i have to go pick up the rest of the paint in town then start moving packing boxes into the garage. If the weather is calm my big job tomorrow is to repaint the fence pannels in the back garden (only 18 of them) and fit the wooden boards for the boarders in the front part of the back garden :) Then i might get up to the allotment :)

Blimey!  Remember to breathe at some point Cam!!!    :o

Well went down me plot with neighbour who has the plot next to me,
I am suffering with cracked ribs, so just sat and watch world go by, oh and my m8 were he had good old burn up,

depressing really but least the weather was ace.