Empty for the moment. Excuse me whilst I take a quick PhD in how to construct greenhouse staging. In China, it is apparently easier to use self-tapping screws and a piece of metal with a narrow strip of metal inside it that the screws fix into. I had been looking at it the other way up - blank strip with one hole either end and nothing to attach the shorter cross strips to and I had screws with no nuts and those shorter strips of metal with holes. Hmmm, lots of head scratching and I had to go to Caerfagu to look at their greenhouse and staging (Vitavia one, just like mine, and it's where I bought my greenhouse from). I took photos (not trusting my memory).
So, round two will be tomorrow . . . I have two of them.
Yesterday was a real struggle for Keith as he was barely able to get around and I really feared I might not get him safely to bed. Anyway, we managed somehow and I had some wine to calm my nerves afterwards, and watched some tv programmes I like - I defer to Keith most of the time although I generally enjoy what he is watching (antiques progs) but some of his films are a bit blood-thirsty and there's a limit to how many Lovejoy programmes I can cope with!
I had a lovely morning out in the garden and started planting up the alpines down the big stone steps at the side of the house. I put all 7 plants in. I had half a bag of topsoil left which I used as a base, popped the plants in - the biggest ones on the corners of the steps where they met the wall - and then topped up with compost and laid some stone fragments against them to hold the soil in place. I'll get some bigger pieces from the edge of the paddock - remnants of a stone trackway from the stables up to the Big House, dug up when we had some of the paddock levelled.
Then it came on to rain so I came indoors and sewed half a dozen patchwork blocks. Tonight I shall applique some more of the Beatrix Potter figures in the centres of them. It's coming together nicely. Whilst I sewed, I listened to "Go Tell the Bees That I am Gone", which I have in hardback but didn't get very far reading it as too many calls on my time. It was lovely to listen to it as I worked.
I have to say, I would prefer to have Danny & Emma here of an evening, but this was all booked last year, before they knew they were going to move here.
I shall be glad to sit down and rest tonight as I had such a busy morning - putting several lots of washing on, and hanging it up, taking dry laundry upstairs, ironing various bits, making up "I"'s bed and D&E's with fresh linen, shaving Keith and giving him a hair cut, helping him with his meals etc etc.
Anyway, K up to bed with no problems tonight. Just off to bed myself now. Have a good weekend all.
