Sunday 27 January 2013

Muck spreading and soil glazing

This morning the weather was perfect for a spot of gardening. I'm being very sensible and not rushing to sow any seeds. Luckily, in my super compost bin,  there was some lovely compost all ready to spread about the Garden of Love. 
 


After emptying one compost bin, we transferred the contents of the other bin to give it all a good mix about. Look at the clever red worms breaking up all our food waste.


Meanwhile, Jon started taking apart our old windows and dotting them around the garden to start warming the soil up. It's not quite a coldframe yet, but we're getting there.


Sunday 20 January 2013

Back in the garden

Before the snow hit, Hannah managed to get some much needed clearing up in the garden done.


She's wearing red trousers, but don't judge her; she's an out-of-towner!


This was only last week and we've still got lots of pro-duce.

She's still wearing them! The cheek!

Yes, that's kale, beetroots and cabbages.

Oh yeah, and fartichokes, all scrubbed up.



Sunday 13 January 2013

Something fishy going on

Mum and Dad gave us some prints of fish that used to be in my Dad's dental surgery toilets. I think fish in toilets is a feng-shui thing.

 But we're putting them in the hall/living room, in our evolving picture space (e.g.1e.g.2), because it's not the 90s and we don't believe in feng-shui.

 This is one of them. They're like, anatomical.

The other one is under that mirror on the right. It's, like, some fish on a river bank, just been caught. (not for the squeamish). 

Sunday 6 January 2013

Curtain pole

So before Christmas, we were planning to put up a curtain pole for our new sitting room windows. But then this happened. So not much drilling was going to be happening. 

We'd even moved everything out of the way and everything.

But what's this? Thanks to Katie Lloyd and Simon Taylor (along with Dad G too) we were able to go and buy ourselves a brand new drill! Christmas wishes really can come true!



Woo hoo! Curtain pole! Let's just wait another several months and maybe I will have got round to making the curtains.