Let's try again...
Mon 26th Fiona and I took all the old greenhouse glass and the tatty old white garden table to the tip in her SUV, then came back via Hurrans and picked up the photinia. Many thanks Fiona!
Kai has Tuesdays off this term, so we did a little garden work. And I probably shopped: now I can't carry so much I need to shop more often than before. In the evening Kai and I went over to Tesco pharmacy for our flu jabs.
Wed 28th: met Kai in town, treated us to lunch at the Café Réfectoire just outside the bus station (wonderful paninis!) then checked out St Nick's Market and the Antics model shop (I still haven't assembled my Vulcan from last Yule. Now I have the paint I might find the time...) before Kai's haematology appointment at 3.30. Medically, all is absolutely fine, but Dr Lowry has suggested counselling, which I think is a good idea.
Thurs 29th I saw Kai off to Uni then bussed into town, walked from the centre to the Riverside Garden Centre along the New Cut, bought the big pittosporum Silver Sheen, a few other hedging plants - and a sad cotoneaster that was on special, sitting in a tiny pot all forlorn. I couldn't leave her behind...
She's much happier now.
Caught the ferry from the SS Great Britain back to the centre, caught a bus up to the top of Blackboy Hill to get the things I forgot last time I visited Wild Oats and Better Food, walked back down to the Clifton Mall's Sains for the wee bit of shopping I needed, then bussed home.
Fri 30th Riverside delivered everything I'd bought the day before. (It was quite fun to have two grown men drooling over my garden! One of them started planning out how we could be self-sufficient, but been there, done that, too much work these days. My raised beds - which still aren't in place yet - will be quite enough work...) And we watched City of Lost Children which is... odd. And surreal. (I was somewhat thrown by the physical similarity between Dominique Pinon and Brian Downey...)
Sat we settled the cotoneaster, griselinia and laurel after moving the last of the spiraeas over to the old meadow, and planted a bit more behind the greenhouse.
Sun was the usual Sains and Tesco shops. K&K went for a walk to Nightingale Valley.
Ken was on leave Mon - Wed, so we got the area cleared, the root barrier in and the pittosporum planted.
There's more space behind it than I really wanted, to allow room for the wall's foundations. (Yes, we will have a wall built eventually, but not until after him next door has died: I will not have him derive any benefit from anything we do. He's a lifetime smoker and more than 20 years older than we are, we can wait...) In the meantime I'll put in some temporary shrubs to fill the space. Privet perhaps...
The view from the patio doors...
The photinia isn't planted yet: we need to move the fruit trees at the top first and they aren't quite asleep yet.
Mon evening we watched Inception again. Still a real favourite, and this time it made more sense! Wonderful film.
In other news... We've started watching Charlie Jade (again. Ep 1 failed to grip and sent me to sleep the first time.) It's more interesting this time around: will stick with it and see how we go. Kai and I both have colds - I also have a raging sore throat today, oh joy.
And it's suddenly gone cold. Three days ago I was in a tee-shirt, today it's a long sleeved top with a cardigan over it, and I'm still cold. Though that might be because I don't feel well... Eh, it's autumn, it's supposed to be cold!
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
pontificated this at 11:38 am
3 Comments:
I feel exhausted by just reading all that you do!
Sympathies for the cold and sore throat. Hope you both recover quickly.
Your garden always looks so inviting :)
Sue: my cold turned into flu, even after the flu jab. Left me floored for several days, now feeling a bit better. Hoping to post another proper update tomorrow.
Lutra: thanks! I love my garden, and it reciprocates (sometimes a bit too enthusiastically!) Current rough estimate is that everything will be in its final form and place by around this time next year (including the front garden - temporarily at least, as more will need to be done when we have the hardstanding put in and the gate moved.) There's still an awful lot that needs doing, but we've made a good start.