I wasn't feeling 100% yesterday morning, and had to force myself to do anything, so I decided on a standing-still job which much needed doing and pricked out all my Cosmos seeds - Seashell Mixed and the Sulphur ones. My back was complaining at the end of that.
Two trays of Scarlet Emperor Runner Beans now seeking the light too.
Pippi admiring the Aubretia at the side of the house. I was out there clearing the grass and dandelions from them and clearing up those leaves to be composted. The "garden" here is just compost on top of the stone "jetty". I have Aubretia growingup the steps too - again just compost on top of the stone steps. An idea taken from a fabulous garden I saw in a magazine. Mine is but a pale imitation.
Then I suddenly felt incredibly weary - my legs were yelling at me to rest and I was fighting to stay awake. I slept on the sofa for over an hour and a half and then had to just rest. I spent the afternoon on the sofa with a book. An Elly Griffiths one, The Last Word, which I'd not read (found it on the Co-op charity table). It doesn't flow like her Dr Ruth Galloway series. Also from the Co-op table, I got the Night Hawks by EG and Queen of the North by Anne O'Brien. The pile to read gets ever higher!
Fortunately I didn't have to cook as I had the other half of my Chicken Stir Fry for tea. I will be making bread shortly (run out) and the cheesy scone topping for my Mince Cobbler for tea tonight. That will do several portions.
I need to be sorting out what to take to the little Antiques Fair on Saturday and will probably load the car too and get that done and dusted. I was awake for hours in the night trying to decide whether or not to go to Malvern on Monday. The cost of fuel is a deterrent and also do I buy bits and pieces for the Builth Fair, wondering whether people will be coming to buy in May or September because of the cost of living going up so (a pox on Trump). I tossed and turned - bedtime is NOT the best time to go through problems of course. I didn't resolve the problem. This morning, however, it has become clearer. I can't read the future - don't know how that will unroll - but the Easter fleamarket is pretty well THE best one as people want to buy and dealers/house clearance folk REALLY want to sell. Best buying opportunity anyway. Plus I will have a day out in beautiful countryside, and see friends, and it's just so good to have a fossick around the stalls. Even if I don't go to any other Fleas this summer, I will go to this one.
Evening light on the new Aubretia, settling in with the wild Primrose companions.
Right, I'll get a loaf started and then go up to the attic to sort out some blue and white china from ancient stock - pre-Covid of course as it hasn't budged since we moved in here.
Pricking out seedlings is probably my least favourite job in the greenhouse, and often they all need doing at once 😀 The cosmos will be beautiful so well worth it. I run out of energy very quickly at the moment, hoping that I’ll soon be over winter lethargy.
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Gosh, I remember one year, when I used to grow all sorts of herbs and perennials from seed to sell as small plants at car boot sales. I sewed an entire packet of something with 2,000 seeds in it and I swear every seed germinated! OMG - I spent a week pricking them out and potting them on . If I ever see this particular plant at a garden centre, I walk on by!!!
DeleteYour aubretia looks gorgeous. Blue and white china should sell well, it always seems to be in fashion. Hope Alfie is feeling better, Sheva is lying outside on the patio in the sun. We have chicken kiev's for tea, I'm trying to eat down the freezer. Fortunately OH will eat almost anything I put in front of him. Xx
ReplyDeleteI saved one not-so-special tall vase for my living room hearth (I have some tall silk flowers to put in it) as I have removed the rather desirable Japanese bronze vase I had put there on moving in, after finding its value via Lens. That's off to the Fairs now.
DeleteYou are lucky to have an unfussy husband - mine was incredibly fussy . . .
DeleteI am so glad that I don't have to have the worry of whether or not to do a fair, or will the weather be good enough for a car boot sale anymore. The day I sold all my 'antique-y' stock off really cheaply was the best one ever, and then again with the car boot sale stock. Do you ever get an urge to do that or is much to much ingrained in you to keep at it, I know a lot of your friends are fellow dealers of course and seeing them must be a big part of the draw to keep going.
ReplyDeleteNo, I can't bring myself to virtually give away stuff I have paid good money for. If it's worth £80 it's not being priced at a fiver!!! I will carry on a bit longer and do some bargain offers on lesser stuff to clear old stock, of which there is a lot. Doing the Fairs is my social life now.
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