Yet another lovely day!
May. 26th, 2009 11:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
blackberry444It's been a lovely warm day again today and mostly sunny. Yesterday was lovely too; it makes me feel it must be Summer!
John and I sat in the yard with our coffee, he with his newspaper and I with my book. Suddenly there was a terrible commotion and I looked up to see Morgan running along the top of the wall like greased lightning after a poor little blue tit. The tit eventually managed to fly away and I thought Morgan was going to launch himself from the wall after it. Other birds in the willow tree on the other side of the back lane were twittering and getting very agitated and I was rather afraid that my naughty Tootles was going to get himself mobbed by angry starlings, which happened to Phoebe once when she was minding her own business on my windowsill. He jumped down and hid under the table until the commotion died down.
Charles was up early today, all without my intervention; I wish it meant his sleep patterns were going to return to normal, but we had a week or so at Christmas when he became more or less "normal"; it didn't last.
He had the results of his City & Guilds IT exams the other day; two Distinctions !!. He didn't even bother to do any revision, but he does have almost-but-not-quite photographic memory, especially for things he's interested in, and, of course, he did do an IT course at Skool, although doubtless everything's changed since then. We've decided that he must go back and do the next bit of the course, even though he will have to pay for it, since more funding is not forthcoming. If all three of us chip in, he should be able to start again in September.
Today we went to the garden centre and I got BOGOF bedding plants, mostly petunias and lobelia, which I shall use in my hanging baskets. (Only allowed four per voucher, though!) I got a really cheap bent bamboo frame thingy to grow the clematis over, so I've bought another of those incredibly cheap earthenware pots and I shall put the clematis in there, then I won't need to use the trellis for it and it won't have to go right up against the wall, which I think helps the slimies get to it. I actually found a snail asleep in the pot today when I moved it. Cheeky hooter!! That snail quickly found himself out on the back lane after a short flight through the air.
I also bought a new type of pelargonium which looks as though it's made from red velvet. I bought some more runner beans as well. If they all do well, we shall get sick of them, or of course, I could freeze them. I don't really think I ever could get tired of runner beans. After a brief tussle with myself involving such thoughts as "What about the gas bill?" I bought a vast hanging pot of strawberry plants with several plump strawberries on the brink of being ripe, but I shall have to remember to look out some old net curtain to put over them tomorrow, otherwise the birds will eat them before I can. I bought a couple of other plants which I can't remember at the moment... some sort of daisy thing and something else.
Almost as soon as we'd had a reviving cup of tea out in the yard, it started to rain, so nothing got planted today. The forecast for tomorrow is dire, but from Thursday onwards, the weather is meant to improve again. I need to have a blitz on this room in any case. When I was trying to fish my new-ish slippers out from under the TV stand, I found enough cat hair to knit a cardigan!
John and I sat in the yard with our coffee, he with his newspaper and I with my book. Suddenly there was a terrible commotion and I looked up to see Morgan running along the top of the wall like greased lightning after a poor little blue tit. The tit eventually managed to fly away and I thought Morgan was going to launch himself from the wall after it. Other birds in the willow tree on the other side of the back lane were twittering and getting very agitated and I was rather afraid that my naughty Tootles was going to get himself mobbed by angry starlings, which happened to Phoebe once when she was minding her own business on my windowsill. He jumped down and hid under the table until the commotion died down.
Charles was up early today, all without my intervention; I wish it meant his sleep patterns were going to return to normal, but we had a week or so at Christmas when he became more or less "normal"; it didn't last.
He had the results of his City & Guilds IT exams the other day; two Distinctions !!. He didn't even bother to do any revision, but he does have almost-but-not-quite photographic memory, especially for things he's interested in, and, of course, he did do an IT course at Skool, although doubtless everything's changed since then. We've decided that he must go back and do the next bit of the course, even though he will have to pay for it, since more funding is not forthcoming. If all three of us chip in, he should be able to start again in September.
Today we went to the garden centre and I got BOGOF bedding plants, mostly petunias and lobelia, which I shall use in my hanging baskets. (Only allowed four per voucher, though!) I got a really cheap bent bamboo frame thingy to grow the clematis over, so I've bought another of those incredibly cheap earthenware pots and I shall put the clematis in there, then I won't need to use the trellis for it and it won't have to go right up against the wall, which I think helps the slimies get to it. I actually found a snail asleep in the pot today when I moved it. Cheeky hooter!! That snail quickly found himself out on the back lane after a short flight through the air.
I also bought a new type of pelargonium which looks as though it's made from red velvet. I bought some more runner beans as well. If they all do well, we shall get sick of them, or of course, I could freeze them. I don't really think I ever could get tired of runner beans. After a brief tussle with myself involving such thoughts as "What about the gas bill?" I bought a vast hanging pot of strawberry plants with several plump strawberries on the brink of being ripe, but I shall have to remember to look out some old net curtain to put over them tomorrow, otherwise the birds will eat them before I can. I bought a couple of other plants which I can't remember at the moment... some sort of daisy thing and something else.
Almost as soon as we'd had a reviving cup of tea out in the yard, it started to rain, so nothing got planted today. The forecast for tomorrow is dire, but from Thursday onwards, the weather is meant to improve again. I need to have a blitz on this room in any case. When I was trying to fish my new-ish slippers out from under the TV stand, I found enough cat hair to knit a cardigan!
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Date: 2009-09-25 10:32 am (UTC)