Lists?

Despite the current enforced stay-at-home restrictions coupled with work ‘furlough’, one would think that the extra ‘free time’ would mean getting on top of the “to do” lists…. hmm, not in this household it seems!  

I started this Blog on the 13th April and got as far as uploading a photograph.  So it has taken over a week to summon the wherewithal to start writing, as well as to respond to accumulated emails, messages and cards [thanks, and apologies].  So, currently, this pretty much sums me up – my concentration and energy are somewhat erratic!  At times I find myself standing, trowel or dishcloth in hand, gazing blankly into the middle-distance; sometimes I am thinking of nothing at all, or nothing that I can remember, and other times I am thinking about my sister Kate, and the rest of the family.  Therefore, this furlough period is probably for the best as it may allow me to digest the past (pretty dreadful) few weeks.

​Having said that, I am very fortunate insofar as Paul and I enjoy living at No.6 and are lucky enough to have a decent sized garden – which is where we have been expending all our energies and even a few small jobs have been addressed in the house too. 

I’m [literally] pottering on.  I feel subdued, and quiet.  I do not really want to talk to anyone, and I am quite happy just being with Paul.  As the weather has been so glorious lately, and as is the habit of the British, we have spent as much time as possible outside just in case it decides to revert back to grey ‘tupperware’ conditions!    To be honest, if you looked at Paul you might think he had been on holiday!  His face and arms are so brown from being in the garden, in the sun… and not putting enough sun-cream on!?*!  I am almost as bad, but I remembered the factor 30 more often!! 

So, I think you would be impressed with all the work that has been accomplished over the past few weeks:

• Sown more seeds (for succession planting – Geoff* would approve)
• Thinned out seedlings (as instructed by the books)
• Re-potted a lot of my home-grown plants
• ‘Hardening-off’ some plants so they can be planted out (hopefully) by the end of the month.​​ ​

​Paul has moved and then re-aligned the path flagstones (that sounds a bit posh, I think they’re just concrete slabs) and has re-seeded in-between so it should emerge as a lush, weed-free grassed approach up to the garden gate…. and then, of course, the excitement continues with the vista beyond?*!

Well, we’re getting there…
 
*Geoff Hamilton – BBC Gardeners' World ​