I am currently sitting next to a small forest of tomato plants. I'm sure by this time last year we were putting them outside to harden them off but this year the weather means we dare not. It's not so cold at night now but the wind is really too strong to risk it. I've never thought of tomatoes as house plants before but at this rate that is how ( Read more... )

I got my second vaccination on Thursday and in less than two weeks should be at least a bit protected from whatever Covid decides to throw at us next (Indian variant heading our way). Unfortunately J doesn't get his second jab for just over a week so even if we felt inclined to go out and frolic on Monday we won't be. I now have my vaccine card ( Read more... )

The only exciting thing that has happened since my last post is that we have bought a bread maker. Our kitchen is really not big enough for many gadgets and up until last year we hadn't bought any new ones for about 10 years. Since Lockdown 1 we have purchased a soup maker (brilliant and worth every penny), an air fryer (less useful according to me ( Read more... )

On Saturday we did something we haven't done for over a year and met my brother and sister-in-law in a pub. We have seen my brother and sister-in-law more recently but we haven't set foot in a pub since March last year. We are lucky enough to live near one of the best pubs in the area which has a nice courtyard garden so we sat out there. The ( Read more... )

Time has been extremely strange for the whole of the past year but this April seems to have sped by. It has been unusually cold and very dry but it has meant the daffodils and tulips in my garden have lasted longer, though I noticed just in time that the flowers in tubs needed water before they keeled over and died of thirst. We really need some ( Read more... )

Nothing much new to say again. I was starting a big gardening project but the weather has turned so iffy today that I didn't feel like going outside and exerting myself in the sporadic drizzle and chilly wind so I've spent most of the time sorting out old bits of paper and wondering why I still had my boarding card from when we went to Tenerife and ( Read more... )

I didn't want to get too behind with the meme so this is speedy entry. The weather is absolutely glorious at the moment so we've either been walking, gardening or doing useful things around the house, so not much else to say.

21. What's the best concert you've ever been to?
I've been to many fabulous concerts. The one we went to in 2019 with the ( Read more... )

I went to the hairdresser on Friday and today I have been to the dentist and ventured to Waterstones. Being in the town centre and seeing people out and about on a beautifully sunny day almost felt as if things were getting slowly back to something approaching normality. I hope it lasts because it was a nice feeling ( Read more... )

I didn't mean to leave it a week between updates but time slipped away from me. I've been sorting computer files and folders and deleting quite a lot of stuff which seems to have been left high and dry, so that has been useful. I've resisted the temptation to dash out shopping and pubbing with most of the rest of the population. Apparently, the ( Read more... )

I am rushing in and rushing out here because I have rather rashly bought myself a new desktop tower. This was getting very necessary as the old one is 10-years-old and is showing its age. I have known I needed to do this for some time so you would have thought I would have prepared by tidying up my files and folders and sorting out what has been ( Read more... )