Good morning to you all, it has been a cool slightly over cast morning, nearly midday and it is only 16° heading for a max of 18°. Naturally I am wearing my Ooodie.
I noticed the spikey things in my front garden are flowering.
Did you notice it was photo bombed by a Rainbow Lorikeet? Checky Chappie.
I hope our American friends have recovered from their Independence Day celebrations.
Just waiting for my daughter and son in law to arrive, they brought the car trailer down so presumably they are buying yet another car. One doesn’t dare to ask.
While I wait I am listening to Spotify on my stereo via the TV, love it!
Have a great weekend, hope you are a bit warmer than me.
A very stressful day filling in forms yesterday, not helped by being charged £8.95 to send an A4 envelope 24 hour delivery.
Pleasantly surprised by a delivery of 4 corals from a new supplier.
Arrived in 24 hours, cheap postage, and one of them was huge and on a piece of live rock instead of a ceramic disc.
I am envious of those of you going fishing this weekend, something I can no longer do.
I used to do a lot of competitive fishing of all types.
I have not been for years, and I am starting to sell off my equipment, starting with my deepsea and shark fishing stuff, I am no longer strong enough to do it.
I am hoping to get one of my carers to take me for a couple of hours this summer at a small local pond.
Rain is around but it’s sunny at the moment. There’s lots of finishing work to be done on the new garden room but the main construction is finished. Still no windows for it though. They should have arrived as part of the delivery but didn’t. Not good.
I can now take down the temporary storage shed (a gazebo) and claim the other half of the garden back.
Our daughter is staying in the country for the next two weeks. She’s like a breath of fresh air. We both have the same kind of sense of humour and we spend much time giggling like kids. A pity she doesn’t live in UK but a person’s got to follow their dreams.
Had my caffeine fix, first things first
It’s an indoors kind of day today.
I bought a succulent in a small ornamental pot from the convenience shop the other day…
I’ve identified it as Crassula ovata Gollum. It’s actually a variety of jade plant and can grow to quite a decent size. I was quite taken by the unusual trumpet shaped leaves.
It needs potting on, just one pot size up. Not bad for three quid!
Talking of things green I’ve finally got round to sowing some basil seeds. I resent splashing out for overpriced propagators from the garden centers, all it takes is a little up cycling. A snipped down Pepsi bottle does the trick
Oh… sorry to ruin anyone’s breakfast but the maggots are doing just fine in the fridge. They’ve lost that stroppy attitude they had yesterday… chilled!
A pity she doesn’t live in UK but a person’s got to follow their dreams.
