Last Week

The start of another new month already.  These months seem to fly by and before we know it, Christmas will be here!

This week has been spent mostly around home and playing catch-up.  Some weeks go smoothly and everything seems to fall into place and I manage to get loads done, while other weeks I appear to acheive very little, last week was definitly a week when I acheived very little.

Even so, I managed to get three days in at the allotment last week, not full day's but I've made some good progress - I'll be sharing before and after photos soon.

I put some mystery flowers in one of the raised beds and they are doing really well. I think these are zinias.  I've never been successful with zinnias before, they are so pretty.  I did nothing but clear the weeds in this raised bed, the soil wasn't particulaly good, but perhaps that's what they like.

My sunflowers finally produced a lovely flower head too...they were very slow to get going but now I get to enjoy them a bit longer.

 I took myself for coffee and cake one afternoon and finished the book I was readin.   I'm on the look out for Liz Nugents other books now, this one was really good, well written and with an ending I didn't see coming.

Book & Pudding club was on Wednesday night - Yet again my choice didn't winn the vote.  This is the one that received the most votes.  I do wonder If the fact that our host went on about how much she enjoyed it had an effect on the voting?  I have noticed she does that quite a bit, and that's ok, but I wish she would wait until the voting is over so that there is no influence.

I'm not sure how I feel about reading it, I've listened to a preview on Audible and I didn't like the narration and our local library doesen't have - I don't feel inclined to spend £9 on a book I'm not sure about.

Stevie Is starting to have nail clients again one day a week, and I get to look after Freddie while she is working.

Stevie always say's he never falls asleep on his own at home, but come to nanna's and he will fall asleep on the floor, ha ha.

I spent yesterday tidying the garden. The earth is so parched, the grass hasn't been green for months, everything is desperate for water, even shrubs in the ground are suffering this year - I've never seen my hydrangea this bad.  

I gave everything a really good soaking yesterday, but what we really need is some rain....There is a rumour that we might see some rain tomorrow, I'll beleive that when I see it, we've only had one morning with some light rain in five weeks!

On Wednesday I have a procedure at the hospital.  Mark is coming home tomorrow evening so he can come with me.  I may need to be sedated, which means I won't be able to drive afterwards.  Even if that isn't necessary, I wouldn't have fancied going on my own.

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