Monday 19th September 2022: The day of The Queens funeral. I have seen a few momentous occasions over the years but never have I been so proud to be British as I am today. A day of mixed emotions, sadness that we have lost one of the greatest women of our time, thankful that we had such an inspirational, dedicated and devoted Monarch and pride at the incredible send off 🥰🇬🇧
Thursday: Shockingly I have got to today without having written a thing lol. It’s not that I haven’t been busy, I have, it’s just that I totally forgot to write any of it down 🤪 I have done a mix of jobs this week including tidying up the office, I made a coffee and thought I will go in there and sort it out, I couldn’t even find a space to put my coffee down! Now it is tided and sorted, although there is still not much space for manoeuvre as everything is stored in there, flower stuff, craft stuff, office stuff and any other stuff that needs a place as we don’t have a loft. I have also been working outside, clearing beds and planting up bulbs, tulips and narcissi in the dedicated cut flower area and fritillary in one of the front beds. The big poly tunnel has been, weeded, cleared and then more bulbs planted in there, anemone and ranunculus. I have planted up old recycle boxes with more ranunculus and tulips which I can move inside the tunnel if the weather is particularly bad. I sorted out the pots of iris reticulata and hyacinth which have been dormant all summer, I will begin to wake them up ready for the new year. I have weeded plenty of other beds and planted up anything in pots that needed to go into the flower/shrub beds. I still have a fair few more plants to get in but I have got most things in, there are still a few perennials that need moving and I have some self set plantings that need potting up. I have sorted out and tidied up the willow whips which will need to be soaked before being made into wreath bases for the workshop evenings and the workshops are filling up nicely. Originally I was only going to do two evenings but they filled quickly and so I now have a third one, though I would love to do more I really want to keep it sustainable and so would struggle to make more than 20 wreath bases it think.
I have been out for coffee with Sam now that the twins are getting two full days at school. Today Charlie and Oscar walked over for a visit, Shelley popped in after lunch and then I had an hour to get some bits done in the garden before Sam arrived and the twins stayed with me while Mia went to her swimming lesson. Rain is still elusive here, we had the week of on/off rain and then nothing since 🙄 and the ground is getting very dry again.
Sunday: Pretty bad at keeping up this week 😂 I haven’t done much more outside and I have spent some time with the girls and the children doing various walks and tea/coffee/chats. I have planted some more bulbs but I think the mice are eating the anemone and I am not sure how I will stop them doing that if I am planting into the he ground in the tunnel 🤷♀️ I left the door open in the hopes that the cat will catch any that are feasting on my wares.
Today we went to Malvern Autumn show, I wasn’t going to go but then thought, why not, so off we went first thing, had a mooch around, admired all the plants and displays, had a look at the floral competitions to see what I need to be living up to 🤪 had some great food, resisted the urge to buy ‘stuff’ but failed to resist the urge to buy plants 😂 a girl can never have enough plants can she? We also saw and stopped to talk to Andie who is better known as Dahlia Beach, also a member of Flowers From the Farm, her dahlias are totally stunning, the colours just pop, easily the brightest, cheeriest stall at the show 🥰 You can also find her at Millets farm where you can ‘pick your own dahlias’ 😁 Roast dinner cooked by Martin and Shelley rounded our day off nicely and that’s another week over. I will try to be better next week but in all honesty I have been quite tired this week and so haven’t got that much done, hopefully I will have more umph next week.
Have a good week x
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