We have been given a box of creme eggs for Easter and are about to start on them... thanks to Terry for those! We have also had another unexpected load of firewood, 24 barrow loads today moved to the car and then down to the house. (not all at once, it took 3 car trips) Some logs were so big it was only 2 to a barrow! The people whose walls we are repairing have had a JCB in on the next terrace down to clear out about 30 years of brambles, reeds, overgrown fig trees and other assorted plants. Amongst it all were quite a few fallen trees, and being on-site at the time, we were offered the wood. So, no walling yesterday, just logging as the digger dragged stuff away, then we stacked it to one side and today got it back here.
It's been a good week for extras, on Wednesday I went to pay the car tax for the Polo (34 euros!) and took the recycling as well. Behind the bottle bank were hundreds of plant pots a hands width at the base and over a hand high, and also hundreds of various sizes of trays for seedlings. I put as much as I could in the car - also had cement and was in the Polo not the 4x4 unfortunately! I bought home 40 pots, 12 trays with 54 holes, 8 with 45 holes and 5 with 45 much deeper holes. I left behind hundreds more but there is a limit to how much you can or need to grow and a limit to the compost we have available too. However I did ring a friend who also grows all her own and like me, keeps absolutely everything it's possible to grow something in......yoghurt pots, meat trays, loo roll middles, plastic bottles cut in half etc.
The weather continues to be nice and sunny, now the clocks have changed we don't come indoors until about 7.45 when the sun goes behind the hill so we are eating later and later at night. Must get more organised with meals then we can eat outside, we have enough wood for a proper barbeque and won't use the gas one so much, although it is handy as it's so quick.
That's it, creme egg time now - and a glass of red too!
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