Loopie-Loo.. great celebrations were celebrated in our home today!
She wore a jacket to go to the Post Office this morning, one she has not worn for a long time. The outer layer is the softest leather and it is lined in a fabric like wool flannel, it is the perfect weight for this time of year, plus it has a hood.
It has two inner pockets which have zippers, she was walking along and realised that, when she went to get her gloves out of an outer pocket, there was something in one of the inner pockets.
The 'something' turned out to be a little skinny wallet containing a long lost Debit Card, a loyalty card for a Garden Centre and a £50.00 note! Wow was all she could think of to begin with and then, how weird after that.
So home was via the Bank to pay the money in! No point in it lying in a pocket, is there?
Cold, dull, wet here today, it is apparently going to be dropping to 2 degrees tonight. But they say that Summer Time is happening soon with daytime temperatures perhaps going up to 20 degrees!
Remember to put your clocks forward an hour last thing on Saturday night, for it is 'Spring forward, Fall backwards' time.
And you know, they may be right. Today she peered again at the Cherry pot where she saw the Lily of the Valley are up and noticed that the Lily of the Valley in the old Joro Rose pot are also up.
This is extremely early for those Lily to be strutting their stuff but maybe the plant world knows it is going to be a warm season, the English Bluebells are in bud, they pretty much take over the pot in which an old Brown Turkey Fig lives.
Each year, after they have flowered, she has to remove some bulbs as they are so happy in this pot that they increase too vigourously.
The afternoon was quiet, potting up some double and single Freesias, how she loves their smell. When it is a little warmer, she will plant the rest of them at the allotment underneath an Apple tree.
Then it was on with the iPad to catch up with the news, to read emails and other peoples Blogs. A Blog that she enjoys reading is called.
Northwest Edible Life .. www.nwedible.com
It is written by a woman called Erica, she is a trained Chef, who worked in restaurants for ten years and who is now a garden writer and urban homesteader.
Her Blog covers all the subjects which are connected with the growing of food, the different types of soil it grows in, tree pruning, sewing of seeds, the preservation of food by way of bottling, freezing etc and other stuff. Earth, chickens.. go and find it and read it, for it is not your 'average' garden Blog, she writes well and with humour.
She has set herself a challenge, this is to not buy any food for a month, but to use what she has already in the way of stored food : dried, bottled, canned, frozen and what is growing in her garden in the way of fresh vegetables.
Too long to explain why she is doing this, apart from emptying her own store cupboard in order to make way for this coming years bounty, but also it involves the responses she got from two women.
Now we are off to read a new book, or rather she will read it and I will preen my feathers whilst perching on her head, that way I keep Beady Feet on her and know what's a'going on.
Then it will be another early night for us both, I am not quite sure why this new routine has been put into place but it is quite pleasant, so I bid you, Dear Readers, good night.
GeeGee Parrot.
March 27th, 2014.
She wore a jacket to go to the Post Office this morning, one she has not worn for a long time. The outer layer is the softest leather and it is lined in a fabric like wool flannel, it is the perfect weight for this time of year, plus it has a hood.
It has two inner pockets which have zippers, she was walking along and realised that, when she went to get her gloves out of an outer pocket, there was something in one of the inner pockets.
The 'something' turned out to be a little skinny wallet containing a long lost Debit Card, a loyalty card for a Garden Centre and a £50.00 note! Wow was all she could think of to begin with and then, how weird after that.
So home was via the Bank to pay the money in! No point in it lying in a pocket, is there?
Cold, dull, wet here today, it is apparently going to be dropping to 2 degrees tonight. But they say that Summer Time is happening soon with daytime temperatures perhaps going up to 20 degrees!
Remember to put your clocks forward an hour last thing on Saturday night, for it is 'Spring forward, Fall backwards' time.
And you know, they may be right. Today she peered again at the Cherry pot where she saw the Lily of the Valley are up and noticed that the Lily of the Valley in the old Joro Rose pot are also up.
This is extremely early for those Lily to be strutting their stuff but maybe the plant world knows it is going to be a warm season, the English Bluebells are in bud, they pretty much take over the pot in which an old Brown Turkey Fig lives.
Each year, after they have flowered, she has to remove some bulbs as they are so happy in this pot that they increase too vigourously.
The afternoon was quiet, potting up some double and single Freesias, how she loves their smell. When it is a little warmer, she will plant the rest of them at the allotment underneath an Apple tree.
Then it was on with the iPad to catch up with the news, to read emails and other peoples Blogs. A Blog that she enjoys reading is called.
Northwest Edible Life .. www.nwedible.com
It is written by a woman called Erica, she is a trained Chef, who worked in restaurants for ten years and who is now a garden writer and urban homesteader.
Her Blog covers all the subjects which are connected with the growing of food, the different types of soil it grows in, tree pruning, sewing of seeds, the preservation of food by way of bottling, freezing etc and other stuff. Earth, chickens.. go and find it and read it, for it is not your 'average' garden Blog, she writes well and with humour.
She has set herself a challenge, this is to not buy any food for a month, but to use what she has already in the way of stored food : dried, bottled, canned, frozen and what is growing in her garden in the way of fresh vegetables.
Too long to explain why she is doing this, apart from emptying her own store cupboard in order to make way for this coming years bounty, but also it involves the responses she got from two women.
Now we are off to read a new book, or rather she will read it and I will preen my feathers whilst perching on her head, that way I keep Beady Feet on her and know what's a'going on.
Then it will be another early night for us both, I am not quite sure why this new routine has been put into place but it is quite pleasant, so I bid you, Dear Readers, good night.
GeeGee Parrot.
March 27th, 2014.
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