Yawn,yawn, wakey, wakey 2017

Top of the morning everyone I have another busy day,I won't bore you with the details,(Oh yes I will)but it does involve pruning all the Roses down at the local surgery,new fish tank to prepare,bark chippings to spread,raised beds to dig over and fertilise ,potting up in the greenhouse,food shopping and meals to prepare,popping out to see how the lambing is doing,and that's before lunch

Have a lovely day and keep smiling my friends

 

Aloha everyone,

I didn't get around to posting on here yesterday as I got too busy.

Apart from catering for the students there was a lot of admin to do (still got lots) but we also got a very annoying email. With our Open Garden, all the behind the scenes organising has been done. The 20 helpers found and organised for the two days with their jobs allocated, all the entertainers organised and given their time slots, the publicity organised and all the posters printed - and then an email comes in that says the Community Choir won't be able to make it!!! They had the biggest time slot on the programme and we now need to fill it and then redo the publicity

What makes it more difficult is that it's Bank Holiday so a lot entertainers may be busy. A singer we know is on holiday at the moment so we have been shopping around a bit. Last year we met a fantastic Barbershop Troup (about fifteen of them) singing at an RHS garden and we mentioned our Open Day and asked if they would be willing to help for charity. They said that if they were free they would do it for travelling expenses. Unfortunately, when I contacted them yesterday they said it's the date of the National Competition and they're shortlisted. They gave us a couple of links to some associations of female Barbershop singers and we've sent emails out to them but few are close enough to make it possible. We're now awaiting responses before working on Plan Z.

Once it has warmed up a bit outside I want to get out there and do some lawn edging. I don't find doing the edging too much problem but bending down to pick up all the cuttings, and doing the weeding in the edges, gets too much for me. . I'll see whether I can negotiate trading part of my work for part of Mrs Shiney's work. If she gets the pots of plants that need potting on, and gives me the right size pots to put them into, then I can do that. It's a job that she finds a bore - but not quite as boring as filling pots ready for planting bulbs and cuttings. So I can do that as well.

Keep well and have a great day

Aloha!

 

Good morning @moyra @"M" @shiney @CanadianLori @Zigs and all my other friends are we all OK this morning,are we under starters orders and raring to go,are we all super chargedhave a jolly nice day and above all lets keep our sense of humour

 

Aloha everyone,

@wiseowl the Shiney's are raring to go but I'm not sure if my body is. I overdid the bending yesterday but we got loads done.

We had a lovely sunny walk in the forest in the morning and met more dogs than people. We must have met at least 30 dogs and all of them were well behaved and friendly. At the outdoor café in the forest there were a group of eight people and ten dogs all sitting around a table. The ten dogs looked as though they represented about 30 breeds We were introduced to Minnie who is a Saluki/Greyhound cross and she was beautiful. She's one of the long haired Saluki breeds and her eyelashes are 3" long (to keep the desert sand out of her eyes).

The afternoon was taken up with edging and potting on and I did too much bending down and putting pots in the nursery areas. I'll continue with the work but cut out the bending.

That's not always true. With Mrs S. they can easily be where she's looked but not looked properly. If you think that they couldn't possibly be somewhere in particular then you don't look in that place properly. Hidden in plain sight - very philosophical

We're still working on entertainers but we'll fill the time slot somehow

I made a very good Naga lamb curry last night and Mrs S. made a veggie Jalfrezi. Yum Yum.

Whoops - word association .
The three little maids:- Yum Yum (our curries), Peep-Bo (looking for @"M" 's seeds), Pitti Sing (trying to find singers).

A slightly different version



Keep well and have a great day

Aloha!

 

Good morning everyone have a good day

PS.I am keeping a low profile to day,and being in a quiet mode

 

Aloha everyone,

The sun has burnt off the early morning mist and it's going to be a lovely day.

@wiseowl bet you don't manage it!

@Zigs sorry about your car As you need a new cat, should I send Sarafi down there?

@moyra I'm OK. Mrs Shiney made sure I stopped when she saw that I couldn't stand up after weeding I'm going to make the most of today's lovely weather to continue with the lawn edges. The soil is in perfect condition for doing that. I'll limit myself to 100ft - I think.

@CanadianLori Are you building an igloo?

Keep well and have a great day

Aloha!