Monday 11th March 2024: I have a quieter week ahead which is always welcomed so that I can re focus and plan plus get some work done in the garden.
It was a tad chilly first thing so I did some household bits like change the beds and hoover, once it warmed up I went outside and got a few jobs done. Nothing major but all necessary, potting on, pricking out, dividing and planting up plus I took some basal cuttings from the delphiniums. I often do it with lupin as well but this year I have sown some seeds that I saved last year. I then spent a while tidying up the area in front of the old dog kennels. Originally I was going to grow climbers up and over it but it is disintegrating badly and so we have decided to take it down and replace it with a pergola, maybe even dig out the concrete underneath and create a proper bed. I could do with a tree out there to give some height to the area and a bit of shade would be useful for anything growing as it is always in full glaring sun. By mid afternoon the last few days work caught up with me and so I had a couple of hours resting while I watched a film lol.
Tuesday: Oscar day 🥰 I said to John this morning that it would be nice if one of these Tuesdays it wasn’t raining or freezing and then we could go out into the garden but so far it has mostly been horrible. On the odd occasion we get some dry warmish weather I take him for a walk down to the village but that is not today ☔️ The forecast looks a lot dried after today and the temps begin to creep up slightly, spring seems slow coming this year 🙄
Wednesday: It was a decent day and so I worked outside all day long, weeding and tidying the garden, got to make hay while the sun shines.
Thursday: Rain again 🙄 luckily I had arranged to go out for lunch with Sam so I pottered around for the morning and then off we went. By the time I got back there was not enough time to get stuck into any major jobs so more pottering before getting the dinner. In the evening I had a zoom meeting which was all about websites, that gave me the shove I needed to get mine sorted.
Friday: I managed to sort out the beginning of the process for my website. I had a domain but that was set up with Google who sold it to Square so I needed to transfer it to my preferred platform which was Fasthost. I thought it was going to be a bit of a nightmare because I had an old website for the Smallholding and wanted to swap them over. For a change the lady in the other end of the phone was amazing, wry helpful and helped me achieve my objective, happy days. I now had my domain transferred, my old website closed down and the new one could be built and I got a great deal which cost me £4 less than I was paying already 😊
I began the afternoon trying to build a new site 🤪 it has been many years since I have done that and was a bit rusty which bought out a lot of frustration (not felt like that since giving up that kind of technology lol)
I left it and we went round to see Florence as it was her 6th birthday today, she was very excited to be 6 🥰
Saturday: We had an epic day work wise, the old dog kennels that we had built when we came were falling apart and needed to come down. So we spent the day taking them down but by bit, burning any wood that was rotten, saving any wood that will be useful another time. We had a big bonfire and kept going until it was all down and cleared, which was about 6pm, tiring day but it is now done.
Sunday: More rain over night and quite a lot of it, I spent the morning cleaning and tidying the flower room. Finding places for everything, cleaning buckets and general clearing out. Meanwhile John was busy digging up the concrete where the dog kennels were because we are going to build another raised bed 😂 this one will be more for the climbers that were attempting to climb over the dilapidated kennels. It was hard going because it’s MOD concrete and about 20ft thick, well not quite but it was put done in the days when they did the job properly.
In the afternoon we did nothing for a few hours, we had earned a rest I think. I then started the website again and carried on doing that until bedtime. I had managed to polish my rusty skills, it is not a great website but it does the job and I can carry in tweaking it when I get time. It is live but I still need to get an SSL certificate sorted so that it is a safe site to visit otherwise no traffic will be sent my way.
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