Gosh – I can’t believe how long it was since my last post. I’d like to say we’d been busy doing really exciting things – but the ‘exciting’ would be pushing it rather. Ian has been busy doing some print work – which seems to go on and on, and I am still busy rubber stamping. Well, not rubber stamping actually. I am aware that I must do some projects for the site. This weeks articles can all be found Click here , and here. I’m applying for a transfer to the Audiobook section at Suite101 which is why I have written a few audiobook reviews this week (see right).
The weather has been lovely. We’ve got our sun shade back up, and put our plants under it as our rose was starting to burn. Our peach tree will have an amazing crop this year – assuming that all the little ones that are growing don’t all fall off. I counted 50 – but I guess that a few of these will drop off.
We’ve also bought a couple of loungers for the garden. We expected this to trigger rain, but surprisingly this wasn’t the case. We have been sitting in the garden working and it has been rather nice. We were going to get some nice wooden loungers, but we ended up getting very cheap plastic ones. We’ll see how we get on with these and then get something else next year if necessary.
I made some soap last week. I made all olive oil soap, and 80% olive and 20% palm and coconut so we can see the difference. I didn’t put any fragrance or other bits in it as I wanted to see how the soap came out on its own. It will be a few weeks before we can try them – oh how exciting!!
Next Wednesday we are going to the town hall to find out about grants. Apparently there is money for new roofs – however as ours is fine we don’t hold out much hope – although my workshop roof leaks so that might count.
We went asparagus picking last Sunday – and that may well be the last time this year. The season ends at the end of April and given that we are not that good anyway, hunting for the last few stalks at the end of the season may be beyond us. its a shame as this was something we really enjoyed. Last Thursday we found we didn’t have anything for tea – so we went out and picked asparagus, and had that with some bread and a bottle of wine sat outside. The next season is berries …