… and I’m absolutely shattered. I crashed out at lunchtime, I crashed out when I knocked off, and I’ll be crashing out any moment now at this rate.
It’s not as if I’ve done anything major either, so I don’t understand it. This morning I finished off repotting the Liz Ayers memorial orchard – the trees are now all in fresh soil with a light scattering of wood ash over the topof the soil and covered in gravel to prevent weeds from settling. The bottoms of the plastic buckets have been crocked to allow for drainage.
I was also going to go into St Eloy for LIDL’s gardening day but I passed on that. In fact I couldn’t really justify the expense of buying the stuff and I’m on another economy drive.
So instead I sowed my Brussels Sprouts seeds and that’s now everything for March. I can have 3 weeks off before I need to do the April planting.
But talking of Brussels Sprouts I noticed that the ones I planted last year now have a decent look about them so I had some of those for tea. It’s nice to eat your own food. After all, that’s what I’m supposed to be doing, and what the garden is supposed to be doing too.
This afternoon I extracted the bits of aluminium greenhouse from the shrubbery. This is one that someone gave me – it’s a 3×2 metre with no glass so I need to organise that somehow, and I also need to find some of the aluminium screws and nuts to fasten it together. But at least I have it in place (which meant that I had to saw away several inconvenient branches) so I can work out where to put the next beds.
And I’m in demand! The English-language newspaper that spectacularly collapsed back in November has been put up for sale by the owner (some people have quite a cheek – it made nothing but losses throughout its entire existence) and a French person I know is interested in buying it (there’s one born every minute you know). She needs an English-language technical adviser and yours truly has been roped in for that. We have a site meeting on Wednesday morning.
As if I don’t have enough to do. Who said that the rural life was quiet and boring?
But I’m off to bed now before I fa ………..
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