Sunny Saturday

Well Steve found my phone in the downstairs loo - so that's all good!
He also went for his eye appointment and is now officially blind as a bat and can get a new pair of glasses for under £100 - unfortunately we may have to spend the rest of the set-aside money on taking the cat to the vet. She's not been able to keep any food down for two days now and there is cat sick everywhere. She's not very happy, bless her.

 

Tilda and Steve have started on the garden - Tilda isn't quite so keen on gardening after all, as this pic will testify.

 

She is far happier to shop for gardening supplies!

 

We seem to have a vast quantity of ladybirds in the garden, so here are a vast quantity of ladybird pictures! And some gnomes for Devena!

I've finished painting the wooden toys too!

Thursday!

A busy day here today!  First of all, after a yummy berry smoothie,

we started making bookmarks for Mother's Day presents. Then the postie arrived with a new, bargainous wrap. I am being a seriously hypocritical wrap-ho by getting one as I fell out with the Evil woman and swore I'd never wear another, but it was super-cheap, so principles? meh.

 

We also recieved some wonderful wooden toys from Kerry today that I have started to paint - will oil them to seal once they have dried.

Planted(!) our avocado stones.

Our trip to Asda was a very windy one, Tilda found a ladybird, we read the poem on the sculpture, then went and bought Haribo!

The poem reads;
Come all you people
Pause a while
And I will tell you a story.
A story of this enduring valley of ours
Of factories and flowers and furniture
Of lace, bobbins, planes and pencils
Of mines, railroads and canals
Of water and willows
Where Kingfishers and Herons dive
Where quiet flows the Erewash.

by Janet Devereux

A busy kind of Saturday...

where we did a lot, but didn't get a lot done. That makes no sense. We had a tester sling to try that we have been very impressed with, said goodbye to an old sling at the post office and bought sun-cream (probably our fault the weather has gone cold again).
Steve was able to book an eye appointment so can get new glasses. Hopefully he should be able to see properly for the first time since the exploding eyeball incident in October!
We went to asda and had a mooch around the garden centre, then a quick sling demo before tea - fajitas with home-made guacamole - yum!
Tilda only had one major strop - result!
We didn't get any planting done however, but it was really quite cold. What we do have though, is four avocado stones, so we will attempt to grow them, starting tomorrow.

Instructions for the avocado growing here.